According to the agency, he was afraid of a nuclear response from Russia Elon Musk, photo: shawn thew / epa In September 2022, the American businessman, the founder of SpaceX, ordered his team to turn off the Starlink connection in the Kherson region, where the Ukrainian army tried to hold an offensive. Reuters writes about this with reference to three informed sources. According to the publication, in total, about a hundred Starlink terminals were turned off.

In the Armenian city, Gyumri found the body of a Russian contractor, an employee of the 102nd military base of Konstantin Antonenko. It is reported by Radio Liberty. According to journalists, the corpse of the military was found at night on July 24 on the territory of the factory dormitory in Gyumri. What exactly happened to the Russian is unknown. According to Shamshyan, the military had cuts in his arms.

Russia announced the creation of a battalion from captured Ukrainians. Human rights activists emphasize: military personnel are recruited under threats to torture Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Azov battalion during a court in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, March 26, 2025. Photo: EPA State Duma deputy Viktor Vodolatsky announced the creation of a battalion in Russia from Ukrainian prisoners of war, allegedly refused exchange.

As the crash of a 50-year-old plane kills 48 in Russia’s Far East, are such old aircraft still fit to fly? The crash site of the Angara Airlines An-24 passenger plane in the Amur region, Russia, 24 July 2025. Photo: EPA/FAR EASTERN TRANSPORT PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE An Antonov-24 aircraft, manufactured in 1976, crashed in the Amur region of Russia’s Far East on Thursday, killing all 48 people on board.

The leadership of Ukraine, as part of the exchange of prisoners and civilians, handed over to Russia a 21-year-old student from Chuvashia Alexei Gerasimov, who was going to join the Ukrainian army. This was written by Virtsta with reference to familiar young men and sources in the Ukrainian army. Photo: "Milete" The publication found that in 2023 Gerasimov studied at the journalism department of Chuvash State University.

At the Streams, the “Journey in the Sun and Back” by Roman Mikhailov comes out: the next series about “dashing”. But the banality of the topic is redeemed by the style of the author Photo: K24 Films The end of the 80s, the Russian hinterland. Nine-year-old Ruslan travels with his parents to sanatoriums, where his father-spell bred vacationers for money. At sunset, perestroika of the father is planted, and the family is on the verge of poverty. The nineties are coming.

The Admiral Kuznetsov, 27 July 2017. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, is now likely to be scrapped after over seven years of delayed repair operations, Andrey Kostin, who chairs the board of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Russia’s largest shipbuilding conglomerate, said on Friday.

Photo: Saratov region Prosecutor’s Office / Telegram At least six people have died after a ten-storey residential building in the city of Saratov, in Russia’s Volga region, partially collapsed in a suspected gas explosion, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported on Friday. The ministry said the explosion had occurred at around 11am local time in the top four storeys of the building.

A man walks past the Russian Foreign Ministry building in Moscow, 16 May 2025. Photo: EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV The Federation Council, the upper house of Russia’s parliament, near-unanimously passed a new piece of legislation on Friday that would fine anyone accessing “extremist” material online, setting the stage for Vladimir Putin to sign the bill into law.

Is this effectiveness or hopelessness? Workers are inspecting the Rosneft drill installation, Nefteyugansk, Russia, August 4, 2016. Photo: Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Large Russian enterprises, mainly in the field of civil engineering, transfer their employees to a four -day working week. On Friday, July 25, Kamaz and Gas reported this. For them, this is a way to minimize dismissal and survive a difficult economic situation.

Screenshot: vDud / YouTube A prominent Russian journalist and YouTuber recently arrested in absentia may now be investigated for treason, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Friday, citing a source in the security services.

Photo: social networks The Bank of Russia (Central Bank) decided to reduce the key rate from 20% to 18%. This is stated in the statement of the regulator. They emphasized that the current inflationary pressure, including sustainable, decreases faster than previously predicted, and the growth of internal demand slows down. “The economy continues to return to the path of balanced growth,” the Central Bank said. This is the second decrease in the key rate over the past year.

Preliminary reason - gas explosion Photo: Prosecutor's Office of the Saratov Region / Telegram In Saratov, due to the explosion, the fifth, corner entrance of a ten-story residential building at 2 Street Street, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Emergencies and the governor of the region of Busargin , killed, six more people were injured, another 15 were injured.

The only Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov can be written off after a protracted repair. The head of VTB Andrei Kostin said about this specialist in Kommersant Andrei Kolesnikov. According to him, the ship “no longer makes sense to repair,” because “he is already 40 years old, and this is extremely expensive.” Soon the aircraft carrier is going to sell or dispose of. "Admiral Kuznetsov" is the only aircraft carriage and flagship of the Russian Navy and the Northern Fleet.

A tourist poses in front of the artwork Thank You Andrei Sakharov by Russian artist Dmitri Vrubel at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany, 19 August 2017. Photo: EPA/ABIR SULTAN The Russian Justice Ministry has added the Andrei Sakharov Institute to its list of “undesirable” organisations, human rights group OVD-Info reported on Thursday. The institute appeared on the ministry’s list on Tuesday, though the ministry did not explain its decision.