The European Union will make travelling to the bloc more challenging and expensive for Russians from Monday after it formally backed suspending a visa simplification agreement over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Council of the EU, which groups the bloc’s member states, on Friday adopted a decision to suspend from Sept. 12 the visa deal Read More…
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Russia jails investigative reporter for 22 years for ‘treason’
A Russian court has sentenced former investigative journalist Ivan Safronov to 22 years in prison on charges of treason, a vicious verdict of one of the most high-profile prosecutions of a journalist in Russia in years. The harsh sentence is only the latest episode in Russia’s restriction on media and free expression that has shuttered Read More…
Anti-war Russian oil exec dies after allegedly falling from hospital window
The head of a Russian oil giant who had criticized President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine died Thursday after reportedly falling out of his hospital window. Ravil Maganov, Lukoil chairman died after falling from a window of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, Reuters reported, citing two sources familiar with the situation. The company issued a statement early Read More…
Russian forces pictured close to Europe’s largest nuclear plant in MoD satellite images
New satellite images from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), have emerged showing Russian ground forces stationed next to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Russian forces took control of the nuclear plant the largest in Europe, in March and have since been accused of launching attacks from the site. The MoD’s latest update says: “On 21 August Read More…