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High-ranking Russian Orthodox priest accused of sexual harassment reassigned to Brazil after Czech police find “white substance” in his car

Latest Russian Matryoshka disinfo attack targeting Yerevan says Pashinyan had “meltdown” as France refused to import Armenian strawberries

Zelensky proposes face-to-face meeting and ceasefire in open letter, but Putin rejects it as a “scrap of paper”

Putin meets heads of global media to outline conditions for peace, explain Oreshnik launch, and express support for Germany’s AfD

Turkey reexported rifle scopes for an FSB supplier and micrometers for the Alabuga Shahed drone assembly plant in 2025

FSB officer named in The Insider’s investigation into Russian intelligence operations in Africa arrested by Moscow military court

Swedish court allows transfer of cargo ship Caffa, accused of carrying grain from occupied Crimea to Syria, to Ukraine in landmark case

Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli connected to orders from Russian military, Grizzly Research reports

President Tokayev’s superholding likely bought shares in ERG, a company that accounts for a third of Kazakhstan’s metals industry

Gold prices to keep setting records as Russia cuts reserves, forecast indicates

Far-right AfD politicians attend St. Petersburg Economic Forum as ex-German Chancellor Schröder spotted in Moscow

Belgian court freezes 115 million euros in Google Belgium assets in case brought by Russian Google subsidiary, Vedomosti reports

Russian corvette Boikiy, known for escorting “shadow fleet” ships through the English Channel, hit by Ukrainian drones in Kronstadt

Gasoline sales restricted at filling stations in at least four Russian regions, as well as occupied Crimea and Luhansk

Ukrainian drones attack oil terminal in St. Petersburg on opening day of international economic forum

Moscow to help Taliban repair Soviet military equipment

Putin signs decree allowing Russian debtors to withhold bank deposits from foreign creditors

Armenian government vows to send voters arriving from Russia to military training camps amid suspicions of election interference

Russian National Guard, prison service, and police show schoolchildren weapons and riot suppression techniques on Children’s Day

Russian officer accused of shooting a civilian in Bucha running for State Duma

Russia bans imports of cherries, grapes, peaches and apricots from Armenia as pressure on Yerevan continues ahead of parliamentary elections

Russia has detained at least 240 minors on terrorism and sabotage charges since invading Ukraine, Mediazona reports

Russia launched record 8,150 Shahed drones at Ukraine in May, analysts say

Technical analysis confirms Russian Geran-2 drone hit residential building in Romania’s Galați, President Nicușor Dan says

European far-right figures meet in Belgrade with participants from Konstantin Malofeev’s 2025 neo-Nazi congress in St. Petersburg

U.S. says it attacked a UAE-owned commercial vessel trying to break through the Iran maritime blockade

Shahed drone strikes residential building in Romania for the first time, injuring two

Putin and Tokayev sign agreement for Russia to build Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant

Italian journalist sued over probe into European assets of high-ranking Russian official Valentina Matviyenko’s family

Number of politically motivated criminal cases against lawyers in Russia doubled in 2025, Memorial reports

Reports confirm deaths of Russian helicopter crew in Mali

Russia’s Matryoshka bots use System of a Down concert announcement to launch pre-election smear campaign against Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan

Lithuania says Russia can falsify GPS signals up to 280 miles deep into the EU’s borders

Russia amends bank rehabilitation law to hide owners of “shadow fleet” vessels

Russia’s central bank, Sberbank, and cash-in-transit service have been authorized to shoot down drones

Ukrainian police reports journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna suffered skull fracture in Russian captivity

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