No party with a stake in the war in Ukraine wants the conflict to end in its current stalemate The aftermath of a missile strike on a building in Kyiv, Ukraine, 6 April 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO The US and Russian delegations that met in Istanbul had made it clear that they were there to discuss the normalisation of their diplomatic missions’ work, not the war in Ukraine. But such engagement is a clear corollary to US President Donald Trump’s efforts to negotiate an end to the war.

Vadim Shamarin. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry A Moscow military tribunal sentenced a former high-ranking defence official on Thursday to seven years in a high-security penal colony on bribery charges, the Russian Investigative Committee press service has announced . Vadim Shamarin, the former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and head of its Main Directorate of Communications, was placed in pretrial detention last May.

Putin met with the Israelis freed from captivity Hamas, and called for thanking the group. The words "captivity", however, avoided in every possible way Vladimir Putin and Alexander Trufanov at a meeting in the Kremlin, Moscow, April 16, 2025. Photo: Sofia Sandurskaya / satellite / kremlin / epa Vladimir Putin met with the Israelis, former hostages of Hamas Alexander Trufanov, his mother Elena and bride Sapir Cohen. With them, he thanked the militants for the humanitarian act.

A Taliban soldier guards a truck delivering pomegranates to Russia for the first time in years, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 16 November 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/STRINGER The Russian Supreme Court ruled to decriminalise the Taliban, the radical Islamist movement that has controlled Afghanistan since 2021, during a closed-door hearing on Thursday, state news agency TASS reported .

The Supreme Court of Russia decided to suspend the prohibition on the activities of the Afghan Taliban movement, which was declared terrorist in the country. This was reported by TASS with reference to the correspondent in the courtroom. The meeting was held closed. The general prosecutor made a petition for suspension of the ban in March. The movement has been banned in Russia since 2003.

In addition to Russian citizenship, the host of the news on Channel One, in addition to Russian citizenship, has a passport of Montenegro and Honduras. This is stated in the investigation of the Corruption Fund (FBK). As the investigators found out, the beginning of the war in Ukraine did not force the TV presenter to abandon travel. In particular, Andreeva, after 2022, visited Finland, Norway, Montenegro and other European countries.

First-person view (FPV) drones manufactured in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, 26 March 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/MARIA SENOVILLA Ukrainian drones attacked the city of Shuya in Russia’s central Ivanovo region for the second night running, the regional authorities reported on Thursday.

The Moscow garrison military court sentenced the former deputy head of the General Staff of Russia, the head of the Main Communication Department of Vadim Shamarin in the case of receiving bribes, the press service of the RF IC, the head of the main deputy head of the General Staff, the head of the General Staff of the Russian Federation. In addition, Shamarin was deprived of the title of Lieutenant General and for banned for seven years to occupy state debts.

Photo: RusNews Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who is currently serving a six-year sentence for “spreading false information” about the Russian military, has gone on hunger strike to protest what she describes as her “inhumane treatment” by prison staff, Ponomarenko’s support group said on Thursday.

The activist from Omsk Daniil Chebykin considers the loss of the region in the war in Ukraine. We talked with him Daniil Chebykin at an anti -war rally in Yerevan. Photo: Andrey Novashov "Agency. News ”compiled a rating of the most cited independent regional media in the second half of the last year. In the 16th place, the TG channel of the Omsk Civil Association (wow).

Vladimir Putin talks to Sergey Kiriyenko during a meeting in Moscow, 26 February 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/ALEXEI DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / KRE Vladimir Putin has appointed the Kremlin’s highly influential deputy chief of staff, Sergey Kiriyenko, to head the supervisory board of Russia’s Centre for Historical Memory, Novaya Gazeta reported on Thursday.

On the night of April 17, Ukrainian drones again attacked the city of Shui in the Ivanovo region. This was reported in the government of the region. According to official figures, the attack was successfully repulsed, no one was injured. In some houses, glass was knocked out, the authorities of the Ivanovo region added. Shui schools today were transferred to distance learning. Residents of the city reported explosions at about 03:50 am, Astra noted .

Economist Konstantin Sonin - On the phenomenon of Donald Trump The editor -in -chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, Kirill Martynov, talked with the economist Konstantin Sonin about the phenomenon of Donald Trump: how did he manage to keep attention in the media space for the tenth year, will he be able to destroy democratic institutions in the United States and go for a third term? What role does Ilon Musk actually play in the administration of Trump?

Photo: yuri kochetkov / epa-efe The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to reduce the list of goods allowed for “parallel import” without the consent of the copyright holder. A limited list of brands, rather than the product category, will be allowed to be allowed to be allowed. This is written by Izvestia with reference to the document.

Vladimir Putin met with Alexander Trufanov, his mother Elena and bride Sapir Cohen, who were captured by the Palestinian Hamas group. This was reported by the Kremlin press service. The meeting was also attended by the chief rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar and the President of the Federation of Jewish communities of the Russian Federation Alexander Borod.