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☆ The Putin-Kim bromance grows with a lion, yaks, bears, cockatoos, pheasants, and 40 ducks
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementRussia announced on Wednesday that Vladimir Putin is gifting Kim Jong Un about 70 animals for his zoo. Russia's environmental ministry said the animals include a lioness, two bears, two yaks, and over 60 birds. The new set of animals is another touch by Putin to firm up his alliance with North Korea. AdvertisementKozlov's ministry said it had previously sent Pyongyang birds such as eagles, cranes, and parrots, but that it was the first time Russia had donated mammals. In August, the Times of London, citing a veterinary source in Russia, reported that the Russian leader had sent Pyongyang two dozen purebred white horses.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Putin, Kim Jong, Alexander Kozlov, Kozlov's, Kim Organizations: Russia, North, Russian Ministry of Natural Resources, Moscow Zoo, Pyongyang Central Zoo, North Korean State Media, NATO, Central, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Locations: North Korea, Moscow, Pyongyang, North Korean, Korean, Russia, London, Russian, The, Ukraine, Korea, Germany, Poland, Western, Stockholm

☆ Parts of Russia are canceling New Year's parties to redirect funds to the war in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementOfficials in two Russian regions have said public bodies won't be holding New Year's parties this year. The regions said that they're planning to redirect funds to the war in Ukraine instead, per reports. The governments of several Russian regions have decided not to hold New Year's parties, with many proposing to allocate savings to funding the war in Ukraine, according to multiple reports. The Buryatia region's Telegram account proposed using the saved funds for those participating in the war, and encouraged others to do the same. There are signs that Russia's public sector is under strain, with large layoffs planned in 2025.

Persons: Leningrad's, Vladimir Putin Organizations: New, Moscow Times, Telegraph, Church, Russian Kommersant, Atlantic Council Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Buryatia, Sakha, Ulan, Ude, Russia's, Tomsk, Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian

☆ Vladmir Putin gifts lion and bears to North Korean zoo
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Russia transferred more than 70 animals, including an African lion and two brown bears, to a zoo in the North Korean capital Pyongyang from Moscow’s zoo, the Russian government said on Wednesday. The animals were “a gift from (Russian President) Vladimir Putin to the Korean people,” the government said. Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a welcoming ceremony in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024. A bird is unloaded in a wooden crate upon arrival in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Pyongyang and Moscow have forged closer ties since Putin visited the country in June and concluded a treaty with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Alexander Kozlov, Kozlov, Putin, Kim Organizations: North, Getty, Pyongyang Central Zoo, Moscow Zoo, Russian Natural Resources Ministry, AFP, Russia Locations: Russia, Korean, Pyongyang, Moscow’s, Russian, Moscow

☆ Ukraine hoped to force Russia to pick between 2 fronts. Putin chose both.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ukraine's big move this year was to invade Russia's Kursk region, hoping to divert Russia's main invasion. While it took ground in Kursk, Russia was also able to keep up its advance into eastern Ukraine. Russia is now amassing troops in Kursk, hoping to retake it without having compromised its main invasion. AdvertisementWhen Ukraine began its audacious incursion into Russia's Kursk region in August, it hoped to force a choice. That force amassed even as Russia kept up a steady advance on the main front line in eastern Ukraine.

Persons: —, Vladimir Putin's, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Putin, Andrii Kovalenko Organizations: Service, The New York Times, Moscow Times, Ukraine's Center, North Korean Locations: Russia's Kursk, Kursk, Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Ukrainian, Ukraine's, The

☆ Russia and Ukraine exchange record numbers of drone strikes
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Sophie Tanno | Maria Kostenko | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Russia and Ukraine have exchanged record numbers of drone strikes, with Moscow launching a total of 145 drones on Saturday night – the most ever in a single night-time attack of the war. “Last night, Russia launched a record 145 Shaheds and other strike drones against Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday. Shahed drones are cheap, one-way attack drones. The UAVs were shot down over the Moscow regions of Ramenskoye, Kolomna and Domodedovo, Andrey Vorobyov, governor of Moscow region, said. The previous largest drone attack on Moscow was in September, when Russia said it destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones.

Persons: “, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia “, ”, Andrey Vorobyov, Tatyana Makeyeva, ” Vorobyov, Zhukovsky Organizations: CNN, Ukrainian Air Force Command, Air Force, Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian MOD, Getty, TASS, Ukrainian Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Russian, Moldova, Belarus, ” Ukraine, Ramenskoye, Stanovoye, AFP, Domodedovo

☆ Putin's allies celebrated as Trump closed in on victory
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Kremlin officials and allies welcomed Donald Trump's 2024 election win. AdvertisementKremlin officials and allies celebrated as Donald Trump closed in on victory in the 2024 election. Meanwhile, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, said a Trump victory could help improve Russia's relationship with the US. Despite the understated response from the Kremlin, there are indications that the Russian leadership has long favored a Trump victory in the election. There's reason to be waryThe reaction to Trump's victory from Russian state TV host and Kremlin propagandist Olga Skabeyeva was openly celebratory.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Dmitry Medvedev, Trump, —, Donald Trump, Medvedev, Putin, Kirill Dmitriev, Biden, Goldman Sachs, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir, Peskov, Kamala Harris, Trump's, Vladimir Putin, he's, JD Vance, Maria Zakharova, Olga Skabeyeva, Putin wasn't, Barack Obama Organizations: Service, Ukraine, Trump, Reuters, Republican, Democratic, Russian Direct Investment Fund, RDIF, Moscow Times, Fox News, Kremlin, Washington Post Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Moscow, Russia, United States, Washington, DC

☆ One of Russia's biggest automakers said it's struggling under Western sanctions after frontline complaints that its vehicles are falling apart
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Russian automaker Sollers is under fire over reports that its cars are breaking down along the war front. In response on Thursday, Sollers blamed Western sanctions for forcing it to switch suppliers quickly. AdvertisementA Russian contractor providing SUVs and pick-up trucks to Moscow's troops blamed Western sanctions on Thursday amid criticism that its vehicles were arriving in poor condition. The Russian automaker's recent blaming of Western sanctions is a reversal of its statements in September 2023, when it dismissed being blacklisted by the US Treasury Department. Sollers had told Russian media it did not foresee a significant impact as it already restructured its supply chain to prepare for the restrictions.

Persons: Sollers, —, UAZ, Dmitry Rogozin, Rogozin, he's, He's, Gazeta.RU Organizations: Service, Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, NATO, Telegram, Business, Ford Motor Company, Mazda, US Treasury Department, European Union Locations: Russian, Ulyanovsk, Moscow, Ukraine, Roscosmos, Michigan, Russia, Vladivostok, Sollers

☆ Russia's ruble hits the lowest level in a year against the dollar and the yuan
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Russia's ruble continued to sag against the dollar and the yuan, hitting its lowest level in a year. That drop comes ahead of a key US Treasury license expiring this month. AdvertisementRussia's ruble sank to its lowest level in a year against the US dollar and China's yuan this week. The ruble fell to around 97 against the dollar on Thursday, its lowest level against the greenback since October of 2023. The ruble traded around 13.72 against the yuan, also the lowest level against China's currency in a year.

Persons: — Organizations: Treasury, Reuters, Service, Moscow Exchange, National Clearing Center, US Treasury Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine

☆ Putin's weak response to Ukraine's advance on Russian soil appears to be rooted in a persistent fatal flaw
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Russia's weak response in Kursk shows Putin's leadership still has a major flawRussia's response was slow, allowing Ukraine to take territory, and it hasn't put a general in charge. Putin doesn't want a situation where "any general could claim credit for being the victor," an expert told BI. AdvertisementRussia's weak response to Ukraine's assault into Russian territory is partly due to a persistent flaw in Russian President Vladimir Putin's leadership, a warfare expert told Business Insider. Weeks after the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia put Gen. Aleksandr V. Dvornikov in charge of operations in Ukraine. Destroyed Russian military vehicles on the outskirts of Sudzha, in the Kursk region, in August.

Persons: hasn't, Putin, —, Vladimir Putin's, Michael Bohnert, Vladimir Putin, Bohnert, GRIGOROV, Weeks, Aleksandr V, KIRILL CHUBOTIN, Simon Sebag Montefiore, George Barros, Sergei Shoigu Organizations: Service, RAND Corporation, Getty, New York Times, UK Ministry of Defense, Russian, Moscow Times, Publishing, Institute for, Newsweek Locations: Kursk, Ukraine, Russia's Kursk, Russia, Moscow, Kremlin, Russian, Sudzha

☆ Russian court jails U.S. citizen, 72, for nearly seven years on Ukraine mercenary charge
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

They said Hubbard was provided with training, weapons and ammunition when he allegedly signed up in February 2022, the same month Moscow sent thousands of troops into Ukraine. He was detained by Russian soldiers on April 2 of that year, the RIA state news agency quoted the prosecutor as saying last month. Russian state media said Hubbard had pleaded guilty to the charge. He stood up, seemingly with difficulty, to hear the judge in the Moscow City Court pronounce him guilty, removing his hat to reveal a shaved head. He never learned Russian or Ukrainian, and had few connections to locals, she said.

Persons: Stephen James Hubbard, convicting, Hubbard, Hubbard’s, Patricia Hubbard Fox, Fox, Robert Gilman Organizations: MOSCOW, Reuters, Court, RIA, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry, U.S, Fox, West Locations: Ukraine, Michigan, Izyum, Moscow, American, Japan, Cyprus, Ukrainian, Russian, Russia, Voronezh

☆ Stephen Hubbard: Russian court sentences US citizen to six years in prison for fighting for Ukraine, state media reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A Moscow court sentenced American citizen Stephen Hubbard, 72, to six years and 10 months in prison on Monday for allegedly fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, according to Russian state media TASS. Hubbard, originally from Michigan, was accused of fighting against Russia for monetary compensation and pleaded guilty last month to charges of being a mercenary, according to Russian state media RIA Novosti. Russian prosecutors alleged that Hubbard fought with Ukraine in the key city of Izyum, after signing a contract for about $1,000 per month, RIA previously reported. His trial and sentencing took place behind closed doors in the Moscow court. Earlier on Monday, a Russian court sentenced another American citizen, former marine Robert Gilman, to seven years and one month in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers, according to Russian state media RIA Novosti.

Persons: Stephen Hubbard, Hubbard, “, ” Hubbard, Hubbard’s, Trisha Hubbard Fox, ” “, Steve, Robert Gilman, Vladimir Lavrov, Gilman Organizations: CNN, Russia, Novosti, RIA, Court, Reuters, Facebook, US Embassy, Embassy Locations: Moscow, Ukraine, Michigan, Izyum, Voronezh, Russia, Russian

☆ It could soon get a lot harder for Russia to deal in Chinese yuan
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A key US license allowing Russian yuan transactions is set to expire mid-October. That could make Chinese banks more hesitant to deal in Russia, worsening Moscow's yuan shortage. AdvertisementIt may about to be way harder for Russia to get its hands on Chinese yuan. Dollar and euro trading on the Moscow Exchange have already been shut down with the latest round of Western sanctions. Chinese banks have also held up billions of dollars worth of yuan payments intended for Russia, Reuters reported last month, which has also contributed to the yuan shortage.

Persons: — Organizations: Reuters, Service, US Treasury, Moscow Exchange, National Clearing Center, Treasury, Bank of Locations: Russia, Moscow, Bank of Russia

☆ Images show Russia’s new Sarmat missile suffered major test failure, researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Reuters —Russia appears to have suffered a “catastrophic failure” in a test of its Sarmat missile, a key weapon in the modernization of its nuclear arsenal, according to arms experts who have analyzed satellite images of the launch site. It’s a big hole in the ground,” said Pavel Podvig, an analyst based in Geneva, who runs the Russian Nuclear Forces project. A September 21 satellite image shows a closer view of the launch site after the apparent launch failure. Maxar TechnologiesIISS analyst Wright said a test failure did not necessarily mean that the Sarmat program was in jeopardy. “However, this is the fourth successive test failure of Sarmat which at the very least will push back its already delayed introduction into service even further and at most might raise questions about the program’s viability,” he said.

Persons: Maxar, ”, Pavel Podvig, Timothy Wright, James Acton, Vladimir Putin, Satan, Putin, Sergei Shoigu, Wright, Moscow –, Nikolai Sokov Organizations: Reuters, Plesetsk, Russian Nuclear Forces, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Carnegie Endowment, International Peace, Technologies, SS, Design, Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology Locations: Russia, United States, Europe, Geneva, London, Ukraine, Moscow, Plesetsk, Arkhangelsk, Russian, Soviet

☆ Husband of Russia’s richest woman arrested on murder charge after office shootout
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Moscow — Vladislav Bakalchuk, the estranged husband of Russia’s richest woman, was arrested and charged with murder Thursday, his lawyers said, after a deadly shootout at the Moscow office of Russia’s largest online retailer. Two people were killed in a shooting Wednesday just a few blocks away from the Kremlin at the Wildberries office, as a dispute over the company’s future took a violent turn. Tatyana founded Wildberries, Russia’s answer to Amazon, in 2004, growing it from an online clothes reseller into a major marketplace for all kinds of goods. Tatyana Bakalchuk, billionaire and chief executive officer of Wildberries OOO, pictured in her office in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 16, 2021. Tatyana said Vladislav and his colleagues had tried to seize the office and that there was no meeting scheduled.

Persons: Moscow — Vladislav Bakalchuk, Russia’s, Vladislav, Tatyana Bakalchuk, Wildberries, Russ, Tatyana, Elena Chernyshova, Robert Mirzoyan, Ramzan Kadyrov, Vladimir Putin’s, “ Vladislav Organizations: Kremlin, Russ Group, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: Moscow, Russia, RVB, Wildberries, Soviet Union

☆ Moscow: Ukraine strikes Russian capital in biggest drone attack to date
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Reuters —Ukraine struck the Moscow region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow. Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, said it destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million, and 124 more over eight other regions. The drone attacks on Russia damaged at high-rise apartment buildings in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region, setting flats on fire, residents told Reuters. Tuesday’s attack follow drone attacks Ukraine launched in early September targeting chiefly Russia’s energy and power facilities. Authorities of the Tula region, which neighbors the Moscow region to its north, said drone wreckage fell onto a fuel and energy facility but the “technological process” of the facility was not affected.

Persons: Andrei Vorobyov, ” Alexander Li, ” Georgy, “, ”, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Reuters, Residents, shockwave, Kremlin, NATO Locations: Ukraine, Moscow, Russia, Kyiv, Ramenskoye, Bryansk, Russia’s, Kursk, Russian, U.S, Tula

☆ The plot to topple Putin
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Paul Starobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +32 min

But it was only when Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine , in 2022, that Ammosov began to plot the overthrow of his homeland. As I found in months of wide-ranging interviews, everyone aspiring to a new Russian revolution grasps the seemingly impossible odds of their bid to topple Putin. Ponomarev — who was profiled last year in The Washington Post under the headline "Could this man bring down Putin?" Most applicants live in Russia, Sokolov tells me, but submissions have come from as far away as Uruguay. "I know a lot of good officers" in the CIA, Ponomarev told me, who "sympathize" with the anti-Putin insurgency.

Persons: Vladislav Ammosov, Ukraine —, Ammosov, wondrously, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Simona Supino, Alexey Navalny —, Ilya Ponomarev, Ponomarev —, —, Sean Guillory, Denis Sokolov, Sokolov, Galina Starovoytova, Anastasia Sergeeva, Sergeeva, Valter, Putin —, Tatiana Kosinova, Yelena Bonner, Itil, Boris Nemtsov, Nemtsov, Vladimir Lenin, specter, NurPhoto, Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Boris Akunin, Ponomarev, Trotsky, Mao, Castro, Alexei Sobchenko, Sergei Chuzavkov, Ilya Ponomarev Ponomarev, Michał Kamiński, Kosinova, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, Nikolai Gogol's, . Barnum, Bernie, Madoff, Donald, Leonid Nevzlin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Navalny, King George III, Khodorkovsky, Garry Kasparov, Putin's, Andrey Volna, Brian Fitzpatrick, Charlie Wilson's, Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Fried, William Burns, Fried, Biden, We're, Evgenia, it's Organizations: Putin, Ukrainian, Russian Federation, The Washington Post, University of Pittsburgh, Civic Council, Kennan, Wilson Center, GRU, Russia, BI, International Republican Institute, CIA, Kremlin, Russian, Memorial, Soviet Union, of America, Civic, Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, Russian Volunteer Corps, European, Human Rights, Siberian Battalion, Ammosov, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Putin's Defense Ministry, True, Bolsheviks, of Russia Legion, People's Deputies, State Department, Justice Department, Polish Senate, Trump University, Trump, Khodorkovsky, FBI, Intelligence, Senate, Ukrainian Security Services, Bolshevik Locations: Siberia, Russia, Warsaw, Poland, Ukraine, Sakha, India, Putin Russia, Russian, Kyiv, The, restive North Caucasus, Washington, Soviet Union, Moscow, WhatsApp, Ukrainian, Soviet, Crimean, USSR, Europe, Uruguay, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, America, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Belgorod, Kursk, Kremlin, China, Cuba, True Russia, Ponomarev, Northern Virginia, Polish, ., Lviv, Yukos, London, Pennsylvania, Texas, Afghanistan, Putin Russian, Tallinn, Estonia

☆ The battle of Kursk hinges on the Russian railroad
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Related storiesExactly how overloaded the Russian rail network may be isn't clear. Despite the humiliation of foreign troops occupying Russian soil, Russian forces continue to grind forward in bloody attacks at places such as Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region. Relying on trucks would require an extraordinary number of vehicles, so it seems likely that Russian forces at Kursk will require multiple railheads that depend on a limited number of railroad bridges. However, Ukraine has captured data about the Russian railway system, which will make it easier to disrupt operations, Fraser noted. Barros believes that Ukraine could seriously disrupt Russian rail traffic and logistics if the US would lift those restrictions.

Persons: —, We've, George Barros, ZwsdIWSBwg, — Rob Lee, Ben Hodges, Kyiv's, Barrow, Oleg Palchyk, Callum Fraser, Fraser, Biden, Barros, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, Business, Belarusian, Moscow Railway, Moscow Railways, Russian Railways, Study, UR, 101st Airborne Division, US Army, Interior Ministry, FSB, Kremlin, Getty, Britain's Royal United Services Institute, Ukraine, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Los Angeles, Russia, railheads, Kursk, Russian, Orel, Belarus, Smolensk, Moscow, Ukrainian, Washington, Belgorod, Europe, Ukraine, Donetsk, Bryansk, Russia's Kursk, Kharkiv, Leningrad, Oryol, Voronezh, Forbes

☆ Ukraine’s president signs law banning Russia-linked religious groups
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Daria Tarasova Markina | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

President Volodymr Zelensky signed into law a bill banning religious groups with ties to Russia Saturday, Ukraine’s Independence Day. The bill’s main target is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which has historically been linked to the Russian Orthodox Church, also known as the Moscow Patriarchate. The law passed Ukraine’s parliament on August 20, with 265 lawmakers voting for and 29 voting against. But with Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine’s Orthodox churches split. In particular, 63% believe that Ukrainian Orthodox Church should be completely banned in Ukraine.

Persons: Volodymr Zelensky, Mykyta, ” Poturaiev, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Ukraine’s, Epiphanius, ”, Metropolitan Clement, –, ” Kosta Gak Organizations: CNN, Russia, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church, Russian, Church, Ukraine’s, Service, Ethnic, Ukraine’s Security Service of Ukraine, of Ukraine, Moscow Patriarchate, Ukraine, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Facebook, God Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Ukrainian, Moscow, Crimea, Kyiv, Ukraine’s Kyiv, Russian

☆ American detained in Turkey suspected of murdering Russian woman, state media reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Mariya Knight | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A United States citizen has been detained in Turkey on suspicion of murdering a Russian woman in the Moscow region, Russian state media reported Friday. The US State Department was “seeking additional information,” a spokesperson said, after Russian state media TASS reported the suspect was American, citing law enforcement sources. The body of a 30-year-old woman was found with multiple stab wounds on the staircase of an apartment building on Thursday in Odintsovo, a city of the outskirts of the capital, according to the Russian Investigative Committee for the Moscow region. The Russian Investigative Committee has not named the suspect but said discussions were ongoing into the “possibility” of bringing the person to Russia for further “investigative actions.”CNN cannot independently verify the reports. “The US Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no greater priority than the safety and security of US citizens overseas,” the State Department spokesperson said.

Persons: ” Organizations: CNN, United, US State Department, TASS, Russian, ” CNN, US Department of State, State Department Locations: United States, Turkey, Russian, Moscow, Odintsovo, Russia

☆ Ukraine carries out one of the largest-ever drone attacks on Moscow as Kursk incursion continues
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-21 | by ( Ruxandra Iordache | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Ukrainian soldiers prepare a vehicle adapted to fire helicopter shells as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in the direction of Toretsk, Ukraine, Aug. 19, 2024. Ukraine carried out one of the largest-ever drone attacks against Moscow on Wednesday, as Kyiv continues to launch counteroffensives on Russian soil. Russia's Defense Ministry said it destroyed 45 Ukrainian drones overnight, of which 11were over Moscow, according to a Google-translated update on Telegram. "This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow with drones ever. CNBC has reached out to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin Organizations: Moscow, Russia's Defense Ministry, Russian, CNBC, Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Toretsk, Kyiv, Moscow

☆ Released Reporter Was Caught in Oppression His Parents Had Fled
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Neil Macfarquhar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He was raised by émigré Soviet parents in New Jersey but returned to work in their native land, only to be trapped in the repressive machinery that they had sought to escape. The parents of Evan Gershkovich, The Wall Street Journal reporter released on Thursday in a far-reaching prisoner exchange with Russia, left the Soviet Union separately in 1979, fleeing antisemitism and a lack of opportunity. Mikhail Gershkovich and Ella Milman met and married in the United States, where they raised Evan and his older sister, Danielle, with a foot in both cultures, teaching them fluent Russian. In 2017, the younger Mr. Gershkovich moved to Moscow to work for The Moscow Times, a local English-language daily, and worked his way through various news agencies until he joined The Journal as a reporter in January 2022. He was fulfilling his dream of becoming a foreign correspondent, but he ended up spending his 32nd birthday in Lefortovo, a notorious Moscow prison.

Persons: Evan Gershkovich, Mikhail Gershkovich, Ella Milman, Evan, Danielle, Gershkovich Organizations: Street, Moscow Times Locations: Soviet, New Jersey, Russia, Soviet Union, United States, Moscow, Lefortovo

☆ Sanctions-hit Russia is rushing to set up payment systems, including crypto, to make trading easier
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewRussia is stepping up sanctions-evading measures to keep its international trade flowing. Russian central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina said the first transactions are expected by the end of this year, per Reuters. An existing ban on crypto payments in Russia remains, but Moscow's greenlighting crypto for international trade marks a significant shift. Russia could be eying a digital-currency-based settlement systemIt isn't clear how Russia's crypto and digital currency regimes will shape up. Even China, which has one of the world's most advanced digital currencies, relies on a "two-tier" system involving banks as wallet-holding agents.

Persons: —, Elvira Nabiullina, Nabiullina, Vladimir Putin, Moscow hasn't, Christopher Granville, Granville Organizations: Service, Russia's, Duma —, Reuters, Business, Bloomberg, US Treasury, GlobalData, Lombard, Russia Locations: Russian, Russia, Ukraine, cryptocurrencies, Hong Kong, Moscow, China, UAE, Turkey, Austria, India

☆ China's trade with Russia is getting so difficult that payments can take half a year and most bank transfers are returned
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trade between Russia and China is getting ever more difficult, with some payments between partners taking up to half a year, the Kommersant business daily reported on Monday. AdvertisementThe troubles started in December when the US authorized secondary sanctions targeting financial institutions that help Russia skirt sanctions. This prompted global banks from China to the UAE, Turkey, and Austria to reduce transactions with Russia to avoid getting in the crosshairs. Related storiesTo force Russia to halt its war, West blocked some Russian banks from the widely used SWIFT messaging system for payments early in the conflict. The continued business activity between the two countries sent trade between Russia and China to a record $240 billion last year.

Persons: —, China's, Moscow's, Andrei Kostin, Russia's Organizations: Kommersant, Service, Business, Bloomberg, US Treasury, Russia, VTB Bank Locations: Russia, China, UAE, Turkey, Austria, Moscow, Ukraine, Beijing, Russian, Hong Kong

☆ Russia is offering a $22,000 bonus to new military recruits, signaling its desperation to offset losses in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russia's offering a new $22,000 signing bonus to military recruits in Moscow. Russia's military has suffered a high rate of injuries and deaths in Ukraine. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementRussian authorities are offering a $22,000 payment to Moscow residents signing up to join the military in a new attempt to offset high rates of deaths and injuries among soldiers in Ukraine. The Moscow city administration said new recruits who sign a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry will receive a bonus of 1.9 million rubles, or about $22,000.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Russian Defence Ministry Locations: Moscow, Ukraine

☆ Russia Cemetery Expansion Doubled Since Start of Ukraine War: Report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russia is spending over twice as much on expanding its cemeteries than in 2020, according to the Moscow Times. Thousands of Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine, in part due to mass deployment and attrition. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementRussia more than doubled spending on cemetery expansion projects during the first two years of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine compared to the two years preceding it, according to The Moscow Times. It reported that Russian regions spent over $2.5 million on cemetery expansion in 2023, and around $1.3 million in 2022, for a total of about $3.8 million.

Persons: — Organizations: Moscow Times, Service, Business Locations: Russia, Ukraine

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