Russia is recruiting female convicts to bolster its war effort in Ukraine, the Kyiv Post reported, citing a Ukrainian intelligence spokesperson. The women are promised financial incentives and the ...
Ex-convicts who fought for Russia in Ukraine are heading home with newfound wealth and swagger, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Olga Romanova, who heads a Russian NGO focusing on prisoner ...
But, in time, Russia neutralized it, as well. During the Great Western Mongol Campaign of 1236-1242, Russian principalities were subjected to terrible devastation and fell into political and ...
By Ivan Nechepurenko Russia’s president has signaled an increase in income and corporate taxes that will help finance the war. The move reflects his firm control over Russian policy.
A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. President Biden and Ukraine’s allies have ...
Ukrainian and Western officials see Russia’s escalated bombardment of Ukraine’s No. 2 city as a way to force the evacuation of civilians, they said. Kharkiv, a northeastern city less than an ...
The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official ...
Moscow — Warm spring temperatures have unleashed torrents on parts of western Russia, where thawing ice and melting mountain snow are swelling some of Europe's biggest rivers and inundating ...
Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed its troops now control Vodiane, a settlement within Donetsk, after thwarting two counterattacks by Ukraine’s mountain brigade. Russian state media said ...
Russia said Saturday it had evacuated 4,500 people in the Orenburg region, in the southern Urals near Kazakhstan, because of flooding after a dam burst. Emergency services had been working through ...
Fighting in Ukraine has given some of the ex-convicts Russia recruited their swag back. These men are granted freedom after surviving their military service. Around 15,000 ex-convicts have ...
Russia is recruiting female convicts to boost its military forces, a Ukrainian intelligence spokesperson said. Moscow wants to recruit the convicts to auxiliary and combat roles, the Kyiv Post ...