The Moscow Times

The picture of how the Ukraine war is reverberating across Africa is much clearer than it was in 2023 — and it doesn’t look reassuring for Moscow.

The delegation of Russian exiles was set up earlier this year to represent the anti-Kremlin opposition at Europe’s leading human rights body.

Established to remember people killed during Stalin’s Great Terror, Remembering the Names has since become an occasion to reflect on the relationship between Soviet violence and political repression in present-day Russia.

Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak confirmed that Ukrainian drones targeted three oil refineries and one gas chemical complex overnight.

Police arrested 76-year-old Gennady Stepakhno on Oct. 9, after which a judge ruled that he be placed in pre-trial detention for two months.

The International Ice Hockey Federation had banned Russia and Belarus from its competitions in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

After more than 30 years in operation, the newspaper said it could no longer function amid mounting pressure from law enforcement authorities.

Ukrainian and Russian officials said a humanitarian convoy is ready to depart for the besieged town in occupied southern Ukraine.

The current ban on diesel exports is due to expire on Oct. 31.

The proposed record defense spending comes alongside a new wave of tax hikes designed to fund the rising costs of the war in Ukraine.

Svetov, who left Russia in 2021, was found guilty in absentia of violating the country’s “foreign agent” law.

Global Rights Compliance said that North Korea reaps funds from the operation, taking much of the wages earned by its workers who are sent to Russia and made to stay under threat of retribution.

Vyborg, a city with centuries of Swedish and Finnish heritage, is experiencing a tourism boom. But reminders of the war in Ukraine are never far away.

The president did not say which Russian companies were looking to set up shop in Africa, but boasted that they have “sufficiently high” investment potential.

The installations will form the so-called Baltic Defense Line, an agreement that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania announced in 2024 to build a series of bunkers along their borders with Russia and Belarus to defend against potential attacks.

Authorities in Ukraine, meanwhile, said a Russian drone attack killed at least 14 people on a train platform in the southeastern part of the country.

A diplomatic letter seen by Reuters listed the names of 11 Ugandans confirmed dead and another 16 whose bodies could not be located.

The decision to withdraw 2026 financial guidance caused the tech company’s stock to fall slightly in afternoon trading.

Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova said the four journalists were from the U.S. conservative outlet Newsmax.

The governor’s decree warned of a potential regional emergency, with disruptions to garbage collection threatening to leave waste piling up in towns and villages.