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Contribute today Russian Overnight Drone Strikes on Kharkiv Kill 3, Injure Dozens Ukrainian authorities said nearly 20 Russian drones targeted two city districts, leaving three people dead and at least 60 others injured.   2 Min read Russia and Ukraine Confirm Second Stage of Prisoner Exchange Under Istanbul Deal Neither side has specified how many soldiers they are exchanging, noting only that they include the young and injured. 2 Min read Lev Shlosberg Arrested and Charged With Repeatedly ‘Discrediting’ Russian Army The senior Yabloko party member has remained in Russia despite his open opposition to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 2 Min read opinion Jason Corcoran Armenia Is Breaking Up With Russia – And Putin Can’t Stop It Armenia has learned the hard way that Moscow doesn’t keep its promises. It is done waiting for a protector that never delivers. 5 Min read ‘Plush Troops’: The Pro-War Children’s Toys Taking Over Russia’s Online Marketplaces Experts say these pro-war toys give children positive reinforcement of the media and propaganda messaging that they encounter daily. 4 Min read Woman Killed in Ukrainian Drone Strike on Belgorod Gas Station Rescuers recovered the woman’s body from the rubble of a collapsed building in the city, around 30 kilometers north of the Kharkiv region in eastern... 1 Min read New U.S.-Russian Talks Coming ‘Very Soon,’ Deputy FM Says Moscow said it hopes another round of talks can offer “clearer answers” to its proposal to resume direct flights between Russia and the U.S. 2 Min read Investigation Uncovers Telegram’s Potential Links to Russia’s FSB The app’s infrastructure is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services, IStories reported. 2 Min read ‘The Fight for Souls and Minds’: Alex Jones, George Galloway, Errol Musk and More Attend Far-Right Forum of the Future in Moscow Tsargrad released its “Russia 2050” report alongside the forum, which lays out several extreme conservative policy suggestions. 4 Min read Russia labeled The Moscow Times an "undesirable organization." 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Stories of Political Prisoners May 14, 2025 ’Find Joy in Everything’: Election Monitor Grigory Melkonyants’ Last Word in Court May 2, 2025 Silence or Jail: Teens Targeted in Russia’s Wartime Political Crackdown April 16, 2025 ‘I Am Being Tried For My Professional Activity’: The Last Words of Journalists Jailed for Alleged Navalny Ties April 11, 2025 Journalist Kriger’s Last Word in Court: ‘I Fully Understood the Risks of This Profession in Russia’ opinion Jason Corcoran Armenia Is Breaking Up With Russia – And Putin Can’t Stop It 5 Min read Charles Hecker ‘I’m Not Leaving Until They Throw Me Out’: Why 70% of Italian Businesses in Russia Are Still There 5 Min read News Analysis Leyla Latypova Why Is Bashkortostan Getting a Ukrainian Cultural Center? 5 Min read Jason Corcoran How Putin Turned Against Tech and ’Strangled’ Russia’s Silicon Dreams 5 Min read Kevin Riehle Ukraine’s Audacious Drone Attacks Are a Recipe for Russian Paranoia 5 Min read Valery Panyushkin Russia’s Potato Dilemma Risks Causing a Health Crisis 3 Min read Editor’s Pick News Analysis Why Is Bashkortostan Getting a Ukrainian Cultural Center? Unpacking a mystifying move by the Kremlin-loyal head of Bashkortostan. 5 Min read Editor’s Pick News Analysis We Analyzed New Drone Footage of Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web The Moscow Times examined new footage released by Ukraine’s Security Service, showing a range of aircraft targeted across four air bases. 4 Min read Editor’s Pick What We’ve Learned From Russia and Ukraine’s Peace Roadmaps The Moscow Times looks at where Russia and Ukraine now stand on key issues in the negotiations. 3 Min read Editor’s Pick Feature Russia’s New Indigenous Policy Enables Unchecked Resource Exploitation, Experts Warn Beneath the lofty language, the policy framework offers few, if any, tangible benefits to Indigenous communities, Indigenous experts told MT. 5 Min read Editor’s Pick News Analysis Operation Spider’s Web: What We Know About Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Bombers Deep Inside Russia The operation required months of preparation and the smuggling of drones into Russian territory. 5 Min read Editor’s Pick Feature ‘Hero Under Fire’: As Putin Visited Kursk, the Kremlin Told Russians That He Was Dodging Ukrainian Drones The PR stunt sought to convince Russians bearing the domestic brunt of the war that he, too, is making sacrifices for the country, officials said. 4 Min read Editor’s Pick Feature In Occupied Ukraine, the Kremlin Is Grooming the Next Generation of Pro-Russian Bloggers Russian authorities are launching media schools and promoting the neo-imperial ideology of the “Russian World” to teens in the occupied regions. 5 Min read Editor’s Pick Russian Tourists Defy a Toxic Black Sea Oil Spill as Summer Season Begins Authorities have banned swimming off the coast of Anapa due to December’s disastrous oil spill. Tourists have been seen enjoying the waters anyway. 4 Min read Editor’s Pick News Analysis War of Drones: Russia and Ukraine Intensify UAV Attacks as Technologies Advance Beyond attempting to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses with huge numbers of drones, Russia’s drone tactics also appear to be evolving. 4 Min read Editor’s Pick Feature In Russia’s Sakha, a Fallen Conscript’s Family Searches for Justice on the State’s Terms The case of conscript Aman Malyshev reflects the careful line that military families in Russia must tread when seeking answers from the government. 4 Min read Women Against the Kremlin May 1, 2025 ‘We Need to Recognize Russia’s Colonial Violence’: Buryat Illustrator Seseg Jigjitova March 28, 2025 Alla Gutnikova: ‘Dictatorships End, Walls Fall and Prisons Burn’ Feb. 25, 2025 ‘Extermination of Entire Nations’: Scientist Maria Vyushkova Counts Russia’s Indigenous War Dead Feb. 4, 2025 ‘What Motivates Me Is My Love for Komi’: Indigenous Activist Lana Pylaeva Just in June 11, 2025 Russian Overnight Drone Strikes on Kharkiv Kill 3, Injure Dozens June 10, 2025 Russia’s Budget Deficit Up Fivefold Over 2024 – Finance Ministry June 10, 2025 Russia and Ukraine Confirm Second Stage of Prisoner Exchange Under Istanbul Deal June 10, 2025 Governor of Siberia’s Zabaikalsky Region Dismisses Cabinet Over Military Payments Scandal June 10, 2025 Woman Killed in Ukrainian Drone Strike on Belgorod Gas Station June 10, 2025 New U.S.-Russian Talks Coming ‘Very Soon,’ Deputy FM Says June 10, 2025 Investigation Uncovers Telegram’s Potential Links to Russia’s FSB Editor’s Pick News Analysis Why Is Bashkortostan Getting a Ukrainian Cultural Center? Unpacking a mystifying move by the Kremlin-loyal head of Bashkortostan. 5 Min read Editor’s Pick News Analysis We Analyzed New Drone Footage of Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web The Moscow Times examined new footage released by Ukraine’s Security Service, showing a range of aircraft targeted across four air bases. 4 Min read Editor’s Pick What We’ve Learned From Russia and Ukraine’s Peace Roadmaps The Moscow Times looks at where Russia and Ukraine now stand on key issues in the negotiations. 3 Min read Editor’s Pick Feature Russia’s New Indigenous Policy Enables Unchecked Resource Exploitation, Experts Warn Beneath the lofty language, the policy framework offers few, if any, tangible benefits to Indigenous communities, Indigenous experts told MT. 5 Min read Editor’s Pick News Analysis Operation Spider’s Web: What We Know About Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Bombers Deep Inside Russia The operation required months of preparation and the smuggling of drones into Russian territory. 5 Min read Editor’s Pick Feature ‘Hero Under Fire’: As Putin Visited Kursk, the Kremlin Told Russians That He Was Dodging Ukrainian Drones The PR stunt sought to convince Russians bearing the domestic brunt of the war that he, too, is making sacrifices for the country, officials said. 4 Min read Editor’s Pick Feature In Occupied Ukraine, the Kremlin Is Grooming the Next Generation of Pro-Russian Bloggers Russian authorities are launching media schools and promoting the neo-imperial ideology of the “Russian World” to teens in the occupied regions. 5 Min read Editor’s Pick Russian Tourists Defy a Toxic Black Sea Oil Spill as Summer Season Begins Authorities have banned swimming off the coast of Anapa due to December’s disastrous oil spill. Tourists have been seen enjoying the waters anyway. 4 Min read Editor’s Pick News Analysis War of Drones: Russia and Ukraine Intensify UAV Attacks as Technologies Advance Beyond attempting to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses with huge numbers of drones, Russia’s drone tactics also appear to be evolving. 4 Min read Editor’s Pick Feature In Russia’s Sakha, a Fallen Conscript’s Family Searches for Justice on the State’s Terms The case of conscript Aman Malyshev reflects the careful line that military families in Russia must tread when seeking answers from the government. 4 Min read Follow us: Photos and Videos In Photos: Russia’s Muslims Mark Eid al-Adha On This Day in 1995, a Devastating Earthquake Struck Sakhalin In Photos: Wildfires Tear Across Russia’s Far East In Photos: Russia Marks 80 Years Since Soviet WWII Victory With Grandiose Military Parade Features Russia’s New Indigenous Policy Enables Unchecked Resource Exploitation, Experts Warn Beneath the lofty language, the policy framework offers few, if any, tangible benefits to Indigenous communities, Indigenous experts told MT. 5 Min read ‘Hero Under Fire’: As Putin Visited Kursk, the Kremlin Told Russians That He Was Dodging Ukrainian Drones The PR stunt sought to convince Russians bearing the domestic brunt of the war that he, too, is making sacrifices for the country, officials said. 4 Min read In Occupied Ukraine, the Kremlin Is Grooming the Next Generation of Pro-Russian Bloggers Russian authorities are launching media schools and promoting the neo-imperial ideology of the “Russian World” to teens in the occupied regions. 5 Min read In Russia’s Sakha, a Fallen Conscript’s Family Searches for Justice on the State’s Terms The case of conscript Aman Malyshev reflects the careful line that military families in Russia must tread when seeking answers from the government. 4 Min read ‘No One Will Bring My Husband Back’: Russian Military Widows Process Their Loss Through Social Media After their husbands are killed in combat, military widows turn to social media as an outlet for their emotions and as a source of support. 4 Min read Most read 1 Russia and North Korea Resume Direct Passenger Rail Service After 4-Year Hiatus 2 Russian Drone Strikes Kill 1, Hit Maternity Hospital in Odesa 3 St. Petersburg Economic Forum to Feature U.S.-Russia Business Panel 4 Investigation Uncovers Telegram’s Potential Links to Russia’s FSB 5 Lev Shlosberg Arrested and Charged With Repeatedly ‘Discrediting’ Russian Army More features climate Major Fires in Siberia, Far East Mark Ominous Start to Russia’s 2025 Wildfire Season Experts agree that Russian authorities — like in previous years — remain ill-prepared for the 2025 wildfire season. 4 Min read As Russia’s Regions Battle Floods, Local Officials Hide Real Damage and Pray to God As peak flooding season hits regions across the Urals and Siberia, regional officials appear ill-prepared to manage such disasters. 3 Min read Warm Temperatures Bring Ice Melt and Flooding to Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region Rescuers evacuated 70 residents, including 20 children, in the city of Asha, around 260 kilometers from the Kazakh border. 1 Min read Russian Airspace Closure Raises Global CO2 Emissions From Flying, Study Shows Major flight route detours increased global carbon dioxide emissions from aviation by 1% in 2023, according to the authors of a new study. 2 Min read More climate Business Russia’s Budget Deficit Up Fivefold Over 2024 – Finance Ministry Some analysts warn that the budget situation is becoming increasingly critical. 3 Min read St. Petersburg Economic Forum to Feature U.S.-Russia Business Panel The president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, Robert Agee, will moderate the panel discussion, according to the forum’s organizers. 2 Min read Russia’s National Welfare Fund at Risk of Depletion By 2026, Economists Warn The warning underscores the mounting fiscal pressure facing the Kremlin as oil prices fall and the ruble strengthens. 3 Min read More business arts and life Sergey Radchenko’s ’To Run the World’ Shortlisted for Pushkin House Book Prize 2025 The final nominee for the Pushkin House Book Prize is a deep analysis of Soviet and Russian foreign policies. 9 Min read Donald Rayfield’s ’A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’ Shortlisted for 2025 Pushkin House Book Prize A much-needed history of the Crimean Tatars and their Khanate. 12 Min read Russian Lawmakers Declare War on Shrek “If you want to defeat the enemy, raise their children,” a senior lawmaker said at a roundtable that criticized the influence of Western culture on... 1 Min read In ’Our Dear Friends in Moscow’ Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov Track Russia’s Broken Generation How could intelligent and knowledgeable journalists succumb to propaganda and lies? 10 Min read More Arts and Life the new diaspora Salaries for Russian Freelancers Abroad See 14% Increase in 2024 Among IT workers, web developers saw the largest wage increases, with average monthly pay up 26%, followed by a 15% rise for programmers. 1 Min read Russian Dissidents Stranded in Spain After Residency Requests Allegedly Denied The exiled activists claim Spanish officials promised them fast-track residency, but those efforts were later stalled. 3 Min read 3 Years Since Leaving Russia, Emigres Seek to Memorialize the Diaspora Experience A new outcropping of projects seeks to give voice to a generation of Russians who have left their homeland, perhaps for good. 5 Min read ’Nothing Will Ever Be the Same’: The Russians Returning Home After Years of Wartime Emigration Their stories reveal the personal cost of war, the weight of leaving everything behind and the uneasy feeling of returning to a changed Russia. 6 Min read More the new diaspora The Moscow Times About us Privacy Policy Privacy Manager Podcasts Videos Galleries Newsletters Archive Follow us           Media Partners bne IntelliNews Belarusian Investigative Center Euractiv © The Moscow Times, all rights reserved.