LIVE UPDATES: Citing sources “close to the investigation,” Kommersant has reported further information from a criminal case opened up in connection with the deaths of FSB officer Roman Kamenev and an Airborne Troops contract soldier Semyon Sychev, thus revealing the names of the soldiers killed. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be […]
Early in the morning on the 7th of August, Russian border guards closed all the security checkpoints on the border between Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in March 2014, and the rest of Ukraine. Witnesses reported the sounds of shots fired near the administrative border. The Russians re-opened the security checkpoints later but offered no […]
FSB and National Guard personnel cordoned off the apartment block on Leninsky Prospekt this morning.
He is to be replaced by Anton Vaino as he takes on a new role as ecology envoy.
Yevhen Panov’s brother says he was in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region hours before the FSB claims they detained him.
Russia has made very serious accusations against Ukraine after several days of intensified military mobilization in Crimea
President Vladimir Putin has made a number of personnel shuffles, removing the governor of Russian-occupied Sevastopol and putting a KGB general in charge of Kaliningrad Region bordering Baltics.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained in Russia a translator for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), but released him and allowed him to return to Ukraine.
LIVE UPDATES: Vitaly Ruvinsky, editor-in-chief of the web site of Ekho Moskvy, described as the last independent radio in Russia was summoned to the Federal Security Service (FSB) for questioning. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic policies. The […]
The Russian Investigative Committee has completed its investigation of suspects in the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
