U.K. announces sanctions on 20 Russia ‘Shadow fleet’ ships

U.K. announces sanctions on 20 Russia ‘Shadow fleet’ ships

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with crew in the Mess as he tours HMS Iron Duke in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The U.K. government announced sanctions on 20 Russian ships, which it alleged are part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” carrying Russian oil. Tuesday’s list includes Ocean Faye, Andaman Skies … Read more

Putin issues warning to U.S. with new nuclear doctrine

Putin issues warning to U.S. with new nuclear doctrine

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. | Photo Credit: AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (November 19, 2024) approved an updated nuclear doctrine, saying that Russia could consider using nuclear weapons if it was subject to a conventional missile assault on it supported by a nuclear power. The decision to change Russia’s official nuclear doctrine is … Read more

Elon Musk is in regular contact with Putin, claims report; NASA chief wants probe

Elon Musk is in regular contact with Putin, claims report; NASA chief wants probe

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and a prominent Trump supporter, is at the center of controversy after reports emerged that he has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Musk and Putin’s conversations have included discussions on personal topics, business, and geopolitical tensions. At one … Read more

BRICS not anti-West, only ‘non-West’, says Russian President Putin

BRICS not anti-West, only ‘non-West’, says Russian President Putin

Moscow: Days ahead of the BRICS Summit in his country, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday asserted that the grouping is not “anti-West”, but is just “non-West”, also recalling that this is member state India’s stand. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on October 22-23 to attend the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan. At … Read more

How the ‘innocent’ British nerve agent victim caught in global murder plot

How the ‘innocent’ British nerve agent victim caught in global murder plot

A British woman who died after being exposed to the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok was unwittingly caught up in an “illegal and outrageous international assassination attempt“, a public inquiry was told on Monday. Dawn Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother of three children, died in July 2018 after spraying herself with what she thought was perfume from … Read more

North Korea sees a ‘surge’ of Russian jets in its skies

North Korea sees a ‘surge’ of Russian jets in its skies

Ties between Russia and North Korea have strengthened in recent years, with Kim signing a mutual defence agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin. File | Photo Credit: Reuters North Korean airspace has seen an “unprecedented surge” of Russian planes in the past year, said a flight data analysis published Tuesday (September 10, 2024), indicating growing … Read more

FSB agent, deep-cover Russian ‘sleeper’ agents among those returned in prisoner swap: Kremlin

FSB agent, deep-cover Russian ‘sleeper’ agents among those returned in prisoner swap: Kremlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Russian citizens released after the Russian-US prisoner swap in Turkiye at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, on August 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: via PTI The Kremlin said on Friday that Vadim Krasikov, a hitman returned by Germany in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, was … Read more

The Illicit flow of Technology to Russia goes through this Hong Kong address

The Illicit flow of Technology to Russia goes through this Hong Kong address

From a nondescript seventh-floor office at 135 Bonham Strand near Hong Kong’s financial district, at least four companies are operating with a shadowy mission: facilitating the illicit trade of Western technology to Russia. Shell companies at that address have acquired millions of restricted chips and sensors for military technology companies in Russia, many of which … Read more

Russian court orders arrest of Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalny

Russian court orders arrest of Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalny

File picture of Yulia Navalnaya, widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny | Photo Credit: AP A court in Russia ordered the arrest of the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a hearing Tuesday that was conducted in absentia as part of a sweeping Kremlin crackdown on the opposition. Yulia Navalnaya, who … Read more