Investigation uncovers Russian defense executives owning adjacent villas on Dubai’s artificial island XXII Carat Club Villas Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov owns a “dacha cooperative” in Dubai. According to findings by the investigative outlet Sistema, property belonging to the top Russian official sits next to two other villas owned by fellow defense industry executives: Nikolai Kolesov of Russian Helicopters and Alexander Mikheyev of Rosoboronexport.

A Russian village thousands of miles from Ukraine’s battlefront lost half its men but has a shiny new monument to fallen soldiers Press Service of Kamchatka Territory Photographs of men in Sedanka who went to fight in Ukraine. Banner reads: “Special Military Operation Participants.” Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov has proposed bestowing on a small village in his region the honorary title of “village of military glory” for its population’s service in the invasion of Ukraine.

Russia is formally abandoning its unilateral moratorium on deploying intermediate- and shorter-range missiles. In an official statement from the Foreign Ministry, Moscow said it is reacting to the buildup of “destabilizing missile capabilities” by the “collective West” in regions adjacent to Russia.

For now, you can only communicate with people a few meters away from you In early July 2025, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey introduced a new messenger called bitchat. The application works without an Internet connection, using Bluetooth technology to send messages. The messenger is also anonymous - it does not allow for registration by email or linking to a phone number. True, bitchat is not yet able to replace traditional means of communication.

Israel is debating whether it is necessary to “spread Hamas propaganda” – and whether it is worth continuing the war Israeli media published a video showing two hostages captured during the terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 - they are still being held in the Gaza Strip. These are Eviatar David (held by Hamas) and Rom Braslavsky (held by Hamas ally Palestinian Islamic Jihad). One video shows an exhausted Eviatar David digging a hole in a narrow tunnel and saying it is his own grave.

Russian state media used the Armenian name for Karabakh’s capital. Azerbaijani outlets responded by renaming Russian cities. Diplomatic tensions between Russia and Azerbaijan have been steadily escalating. In June, Russian authorities arrested members of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg; two people died in custody. Azerbaijani officials responded by arresting Russian citizens and scaling back cooperation with Moscow. Now, the tit-for-tat has extended to place names.

The investigation is trying to link ISIS to Ukraine. The main thing that is known about this process Pavel Bednyakov / AP / Scanpix / LETA Accused in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall in the courtroom. Moscow, August 4, 2025 You can read this story in English here . The trial in the case of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall has begun in Moscow.

Never before has the language of denunciation been used to sort things out in hip-hop. Probably the main pop cultural event of July in Russia is the beef between Instasamka and Mabe Baby, the key girls in Russian rap and related genres. They have been feuding for three years, but the peak of the conflict happened in July 2025, when Instasamka, three years after Mabie Baby’s diss, unexpectedly responded.

Plenty of seemingly innocuous items have landed travelers in trouble at Russia’s border. Here’s how to avoid it. No matter how normalized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its political arrests may have become, the country remains unsafe for tourism. Nevertheless, many people are still going: in 2024, more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entered Russia for tourism purposes, according to data from the national border service.

Journalists called Sedanka a “depressing” place where people are “just trying to survive” Press service of the Kamchatka Territory Photos of residents of the village of Sedanka who went to war The Governor of Kamchatka, Vladimir Solodov, proposed awarding the village of Sedanka the honorary title of “village of military glory” for “merits in a special military operation .” According to him, Sedanka will become the first settlement in Russia to receive such a title.

One thousand two hundred fifty-eighth day. Ukraine is increasingly hitting the railways in Russia. Europe will receive Patriot systems from the US in two years (or maybe in seven years) Soeren Stache / picture alliance / Getty Images Loading of Patriot missiles for the German air defense forces in the Polish city of Zamosc in 2023 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press briefing that Russia “does not wish to become involved” in an exchange with the United States over nuclear threats. His comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was deploying two nuclear-powered submarines toward Russia in response to social media posts by former President Dmitry Medvedev, who had threatened the use of nuclear weapons.

After Russia’s deadliest strike on Kyiv in over a year, the city picks up the pieces Since the start of the summer, Russia has been launching increasingly intense missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. The latest strike took place during the night of July 30 into July 31, with five direct missile hits across the city. Two apartment buildings collapsed — one in the Sviatoshynskyi district and another in Solomianskyi.

Since Russia designated the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) an “extremist organization,” investigators have opened at least 76 criminal cases over donations to the group, according to a new investigation by Mediazona. The Moscow City Court declared the FBK an “extremist” organization in June 2021, and the decision took effect on August 4 of that year. The first criminal cases were initiated a year later, in August 2022. The number of cases tied to FBK donations is growing.

Police in Russia’s Krasnodar region arrested two young women and a man over the weekend after they filmed themselves in front of a burning oil depot in the town of Adler, just south of Sochi. The video was widely shared online, including by Ekaterina Mizulina, head of the Russian censorship lobbying group Safe Internet League. According to a statement from the regional Interior Ministry branch, the people in the video had come from the town of Nizhny Tagil and are 19, 20, and 21 years old.