Russia

Russian tech giant VK has effectively banned employees from working abroad permanently, state news agencies reported Wednesday, citing a company letter to workers. VK, which employs more than 10,000 people,…

The viral popularity of a newly emerged Russian subculture has in little more than a week caught the Kremlin’s eye and unsettled the authorities to such a degree that shopping…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that bans government officials from using foreign words in official documents and correspondence as well as while carrying out their duties. “When using Russian as…

At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, received a troubling phone call. After spending months building up a more than 100,000-strong invasion force on…

London, Brussels (14/2 – 17) Pu·to·ni·a /ˈpo͞otəˈnēə/ Pu·to·ni·an /ˈpo͞otəˈnēyən/ (Noun: A state of dictatorship under the self-illusion of recreating a status quo by force to impose an ideology on others)…

Bomb shelters across Russia are undergoing systematic inspections and repairs following a Kremlin order to upgrade the country’s crumbling Soviet-era infrastructure, according to current and former officials who spoke to…

Russia set a record in daily gas deliveries to China on Wednesday, according to the head of the Russian energy giant Gazprom. Speaking at a meeting in Moscow, Alexey Miller…

The country and its prime minister, Hun Sen, have been unexpectedly outspoken about Ukraine’s plight. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February of this year undermined the basic principles of the…