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Every day, we bring you the most important news and feature stories from hundreds of news sources in Russia and across the former Soviet Union. Our team includes some of Russia’s top professionals in news and reporting. We value our independence and strive to be a reliable, trusted outlet for objective, verified, and unbiased information about Russia and the former Soviet Union, as well as a source for sharp insights about one of the world’s most enigmatic regions.

Latvian authorities plan to ban regular bus service to Russia and Belarus.
08/09/2026

Latvian authorities plan to ban regular bus service to Russia and Belarus.

Latvian authorities plan to ban regular bus service to Russia and Belarus, including routes that transit through the country. The Transport Ministry has drafted the amendments and submitted them for the government’s consideration, the Latvian news outlet Delfi reported.

Russian authorities say they detained a 21-year-old Moldovan man suspected of shooting an officer. Unofficial reports id...
08/09/2026

Russian authorities say they detained a 21-year-old Moldovan man suspected of shooting an officer. Unofficial reports identify the target as a general Ukraine accuses of ordering the 2024 strike on Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt children’s hospital.

Officers with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and the country’s federal investigative authority detained a 21-year-old Moldovan citizen, Nicolae Kochu, in the Astrakhan region on suspicion of attempting to murder a Russian serviceman in the Saratov region, the agencies reported.

Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Saratov overnight, Governor Roman Busargin said.
08/09/2026

Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Saratov overnight, Governor Roman Busargin said.

Ukrainian military drones struck Saratov overnight on September 8, Saratov Governor Roman Busargin said.

Russian forces struck Kyiv with missiles overnight, damaging administrative buildings, warehouses, schools, and resident...
08/09/2026

Russian forces struck Kyiv with missiles overnight, damaging administrative buildings, warehouses, schools, and residential buildings in six districts of the city, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

Russian forces struck Kyiv with missiles overnight on September 8, damaging administrative buildings, warehouses, schools, and residential buildings in six districts of the city, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

Yelena Morgunova, wife of performance artist Pavel Krisevich, was due to leave a Russian detention center after serving ...
08/09/2026

Yelena Morgunova, wife of performance artist Pavel Krisevich, was due to leave a Russian detention center after serving 10 days. She says an officer treated her request to wait for a lawyer before a drug test as a refusal. A court ordered 14 more days of detention.

A magistrate in Russia’s Ryazan region sentenced Yelena Morgunova, the wife of performance artist Pavel Krisevich, to 14 days of administrative detention on a charge of refusing a drug test, the Slovo Zashchite project said.

Zelensky says U.S. presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner discussed possible steps with Moscow and Kyiv to ...
08/09/2026

Zelensky says U.S. presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner discussed possible steps with Moscow and Kyiv to de-escalate this winter, including ideas involving energy facilities and oil and gas exports.

U.S. presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner discussed potential de-escalation steps with Moscow and Kyiv ahead of and during the winter, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Axios.

Russia’s “shadow distribution” of foreign films could end within two to three months, according to the head of the Assoc...
08/09/2026

Russia’s “shadow distribution” of foreign films could end within two to three months, according to the head of the Association of Cinema Owners. Even if Hollywood talks succeed, a Russian “Dunesday” would be possible no earlier than April 1, 2027.

Russian theaters will stop showing unlicensed foreign films under the guise of “pre-show services” by New Year’s, Alexey Voronkov, chairman of the Russian Association of Theater Owners, told the Russian news outlet NSN.

Putin’s new system turns asset seizures into family welfare. Property belonging to critics convicted in absentia can be ...
08/09/2026

Putin’s new system turns asset seizures into family welfare. Property belonging to critics convicted in absentia can be frozen, then used to fund minimum-wage payments to their relatives. Meduza explains the wider law.

Vladimir Putin has ordered the creation of an interagency commission to apply temporary restrictive measures to Russians who left the country and were convicted in absentia on “political” charges. The decree was published on Russia’s official legal information portal.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation says Svetlana Polyakova, whom investigators have linked closely to Russian Foreign Minist...
08/09/2026

The Anti-Corruption Foundation says Svetlana Polyakova, whom investigators have linked closely to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and her daughter Polina Kovaleva received UAE passports in December 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation found that people close to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov received UAE passports after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Russia will directly or indirectly control a third of the world’s uranium production within the next 15 years, according...
08/09/2026

Russia will directly or indirectly control a third of the world’s uranium production within the next 15 years, according to analysts at the British Center for Strategic Advantage, the Financial Times reports.

Russia will directly or indirectly control a third of the world’s uranium production within the next 15 years, according to analysts at the British Center for Strategic Advantage (CSA), the Financial Times reports.

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