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Belarusian dissident Anatol Kotau went on a trip to Turkey in August 2025 and never returned.

Following the High Anti-Corruption Court’s decision to confiscate the Ukrainian assets of sanctioned Russian oligarch Myron Horilovskyi, publications dedicated to the case began to disappear from the internet.

On 12 June, the outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, announced that she was releasing several pages of documents pertaining to US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine.

Images shared from the scene showed huge plumes of black smoke rising from the Kapotnya refinery, one of Moscow’s most important energy facilities, supplying up to 40% of the capital’s petrol and 50% of its diesel fuel.

Investigative journalist Roger Cook, best known for the current affairs programme The Cook Report, has died at the age of 83 after a short illness.

A Russian online sabotage network was behind a series of arson attacks on Sir Keir Starmer’s family home and other targets linked to the UK prime minister, an FT investigation has found.

Two men found guilty over a series of arson attacks on property linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer were instructed to do so by a Russian-linked social media channel.

The tricks of the jail jargon Fenya were once used to bewilder guards in Stalin’s Gulags. Now they are being used by Russian cyber-criminals.

A United States District Judge in Manhattan sent a Russian woman behind bars for 14 months after she pleaded guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about her ties to Russia’s premier intelligence agency, the FSB, and to naturalization fraud linked to the interstate transport of women for prostitution.

According to media investigators, these people — or their close relatives — are registered as individual entrepreneurs, whose services are allegedly paid for by SOGAZ, the state-linked insurer headed by Radionova’s civil partner, Anton Ustinov.

Anetwork of Russian far-right extremists steeped in neo-Nazi antisemitism – created under the umbrella of a sanctioned oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and now openly promoted by Tommy Robinson – has been driving ‘White Lives Matter’ propaganda over the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak, Byline Times can reveal.

Ukrainian drones have targeted the Russian corvette Boikiy in the port of Kronstadt, as reported by Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces. Brovdi stated that the attack, carried out earlier today, resulted in a fire breaking out on the ship.

The consequences of the war against Ukraine are causing frustration and tension even among Russia’s elite: the power structures created by Vladimir Putin, which consist of various clans, are beginning to falter

Russian air raids on major Ukrainian centers including Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv have killed at least 11 people, injured dozens, and left others trapped.

Ukrainian war-crimes investigator Roksolana Makar navigated icy roads and the danger of drone attacks to interview a woman in the town of Izium who alleged she was tortured by Russian forces.

Unexploded Russian-made cluster munition bomblets, as well as damage consistent with bomblet impacts, have been found in a village in northern Mali – despite the West African country being a state party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) which prohibits their use.

The duumvirate effectively collapsed in October following the murder of mafia figure Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for Russian citizens to obtain asylum — not only in Western countries, but also in states neighboring Russia.

British authorities claim that Alexander Kuksov, a Russian citizen with Maltese citizenship, was involved in a significant money laundering operation. His brother was found guilty for his participation in the same network.

Investigators have detailed the financial flows running through Octobank’s Uzbek and Russian affiliates.

According to declassified files from the U.S. Department of Justice, in 2018 Jeffrey Epstein was offered a meeting with a girl from the Krasnodar-based modeling agency Shtorm Models.

Investigators have revealed how money flows through Octobank’s Uzbek and Russian affiliates.

The duumvirate collapsed in October after the murder of mafia boss Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol, and in November, his associate Dmitriy Punin also suffered—his car fleet was burned. Could this mean that he is next?