North Korean workers at a construction site in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 6 October 2017. Photo: Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir / AFP / Scanpix / LETA North Korea is sending its citizens to work in Russia “like slaves” in “abysmal” conditions to fill a huge labour shortage caused by the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a BBC report published on Tuesday. Six North Koreans who managed to escape from Russia spoke to the BBC about work conditions in Russia.

Photo: "Caucasus without a mother" In Stavropol, the 16-year-old adolescent Islam Musiev was released from the psychiatric clinic (the previous name is Zelimkhan Temirkhanov) who complained to human rights activists and threats to murder by relatives.

The logo of social media messaging application Telegram. Photo: EPA/IAN LANGSDON Messenger service Telegram appears to have resumed blocking so-called “data leak” channels. Most notable is a block on the Black Mirror hacker group, which Telegram accuses of “doxxing and extortion”, Novaya Europe has discovered. Black Mirror is known to publish the private correspondence and documents of high-ranking Russian officials and businessmen.

The Russian army attempts to significantly advance in the Pokrovsky direction. Will the Armed Forces be able to repel the attack? Russian soldier during exercises in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, June 28, 2025. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / satellite / Scanpix / Leta On Monday, August 11, there were reports on the breakthrough of Russian troops in the Ukrainian social networks and blogs in the Pokrovsky station in the direction of the city of Dobropolie.

Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazona A Moscow court has handed a lecturer a 16-year custodial sentence on terror charges for helping the Ukrainian secret services plan a drone attack on the city of Kursk, independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Tuesday.

The Georgian authorities are strictly responding to foreigners who dare to go to protest rallies. Fined and deport now not only activists from Russia A rally against the bill on “foreign agents” in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia, May 13, 2024. Photo: David mdzinarishvili / epa On August 5, the next two dozen foreigners were deported from Georgia, among whom were Russian citizens. On Tuesday, August 12, it became known that the authorities were deported by another 34 people.

Photo: BYAMBASUREN BYAMBA-OCHIR / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The DPRK sends workers to Russia who work in slave conditions at 18 hours a day with two weekends per year. This was told by the BBC correspondent in Seoul Six North Koreans who managed to flee from the Russian Federation. One of the North Koreans, Chin (replaced all the names of the interlocutors of the BBC for their safety), told the journalist that he flew to the Far East by plane.

Photo: "New Gazeta Europe" Telegram probably began a new wave of blocking of the "drain" channels. In particular, the messenger blocked the “new Black Mirror” channel for “doxing and extortion”, drew attention to the New European Europe. The channel published correspondence and documents of high -ranking Russian officials and businessmen. Also, the authors of the channel proposed buying out published archives to interested parties.

A veteran diplomat explains how the upcoming Trump-Putin summit is amateurish and politically driven Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump talk at the 25th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Da Nang, Vietnam, 11 November 2017. Photo: EPA/MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL A hastily arranged summit between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is set for 15 August, in Alaska, where the two leaders will discuss a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

A group of deputies introduced a bill to the State Duma, which intends to introduce paid training in Russian schools for migrant children. The document is published on the website of the lower house of parliament. The bill proposes amendments to the Law “On Education”, which gave foreigners and citizens of Russia equal rights in training. In addition to paid training, deputies propose to limit up to three, the number of free attempts to pass the test for knowledge of the Russian language.

How and why the Baptists turned out to be one of the most persecuted by the Russian authorities Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova / "New Gazeta Europe" We make a reservation right away that we are not talking about official, recognized by the Kremlin, but about the “schismatic” who separated from the official Union of Gospel Christian Baptists in the distant 1960s.

Photo: Ostorozhno Novosti A court has fined a woman from the city of Yaroslavl, in central Russia, 1,000 rubles (€11) for comparing next year’s school uniform with that of Adolf Hitler, Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported on Monday According to the report, the court found 33-year-old Viktoria B. guilty of “displaying Nazi symbols” earlier this month in a comment she had left on a post on a Yaroslavl public forum about the next academic year’s standard school uniform.

Russian matryoshka dolls depicting Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump on display at a souvenir market in Moscow, 11 August 2025. Photo: EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he plans to discuss “land swapping” between Russia and Ukraine at a summit with Vladimir Putin on Friday and hinted that both countries would need to make territorial concessions to end the war.

Ten people died, poisoned by a fake chacha, bought on the local market from a resident of the Krasnodar Territory Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova / "New Gazeta Europe" In the Krasnodar Territory, which beats the records for tourist flow after the start of the war, 10% of all illegal alcohol in Russia is produced. Local police officers regularly report on the closure of underground workshops, but artisanal wine and beer still seeps to markets and stores.

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to stop hostilities and give in to Russia the territories that it has already captured, in exchange for security guarantees, told The Daily Telegraph, citing sources. Zelensky said this to European leaders, with whom he spoke on the eve of the meeting of Vladimir Putin and the head of the White House Donald Trump in Alaska, the newspaper writes.