Foreign

Constant mobilization in Russia leads to demographic crisis

Ihesiulo Grace 28 January 2025 0

For almost three years, Russia has been waging a full-scale war against Ukraine, this is the largest and bloodiest military conflict in Europe since the end of World War II. The war unleashed by the Putin regime is an aggression aimed at seizing the territories of sovereign independent Ukraine,

World

Ukraine, Russia War And Putin’s Economic Policy

Ihesiulo Grace 18 January 2025 0

For nearly three years, Russia has waged its unnecessary and unsuccessful war in Ukraine. Throughout the invasion, Russian forces have destroyed dozens of cities and villages. They have bombed residential areas, cultural centers, schools, places of worship, and other nonmilitary targets. The Russians have displaced one-fourth of Ukraine’s population, and they have killed

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Moscow uses Serbia to spread anti-Ukrainian propaganda

Ihesiulo Grace 19 October 2024 0

Russia is not a stranger to the use of propaganda and disinformation campaigns in Europe. One of the countries where Russian propaganda found fertile ground is Serbia. Propaganda and disinformation are used by Moscow in a way to present the Ukraine negatively and Russia positively, especially during the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war.Breaking point happened when Ukraine

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Russia may run out of money in 2024, says Oligarch

Ihesiulo Grace 3 March 2023 0

Russia could find itself with no money as soon as next year and needs foreign investment, outspoken Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has said. “There will be no money already next year, we need foreign investors,” he said at an economic conference in Siberia Thursday, according to comments reported by TASS, a Russian state-owned news agency. […]

Foreign

Russia places entry ban on Biden’s wife, daughter

Ihesiulo Grace 28 June 2022 0

Russia has placed an entry ban on the family of United States President, Joe Biden. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said this on Tuesday. Biden’s wife, Jill and daughter, Ashley, would no longer be allowed to travel to Russia. Recall that Biden and Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, as well as hundreds of lawmakers, are […]

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Ukraine president, Zelensky names five towns Russia want to burn to ashes

Ihesiulo Grace 27 May 2022 0

Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has revealed that Russia wants to burn five towns in his country to ashes. The five towns are Popasna, Bakhmut, Lyman, Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. Zelensky said this in his nightly address on Thursday, according to CNN. He also said that Russia’s intensified offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region reflects ‘an obvious […]

Foreign

N.Korean envoy calls for collaboration with Russia to counter United States

Ihesiulo Grace 12 August 2021 0

Pyongyang’s ambassador to Russia told TASS news agency that North Korea plans to strengthen cooperation with Russia to counter the US, and that peace on the Korean peninsula will not be feasible until American forces are evacuated. Ambassador Sin Hong-remarks chol’s came after senior North Korean leaders warned this week that going through with annual […]

World

Putin signs law that could keep him in office until 2036

Ihesiulo Grace 5 April 2021 0

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that could keep him in office in the Kremlin until 2036, the government said on Monday. The legislation allows him to run for two more six-year terms once his current stint ends in 2024. It follows changes to the constitution last year. Those changes were backed in […]

Tech Technology

Russia extends punitive Twitter slowdown

Ihesiulo Grace 5 April 2021 0

Russia announced on Monday that a punitive Twitter slowdown would be extended until May 15, despite the fact that the US social media platform had accelerated the deletion of banned content. Moscow has traditionally taken a more hands-off role in policing the internet than neighbouring China. But as friction has grown this year over the […]

World

Name of vaccine Russia’s Vladimir Putin to take will be a secret – Kremlin

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2021 0

On Tuesday, the Kremlin stated that it had purposefully chosen not to reveal the name of the Russian-made vaccine that President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to receive later that day. “We are deliberately not saying which shot the president will get, noting that all three Russian (-made) vaccines are absolutely reliable and effective,” Kremlin spokesman […]

Tech World

Russia slows Twitter’s speed over failure to remove banned content

Ihesiulo Grace 10 March 2021 0

The Russian state communications watchdog on Wednesday said it was restricting the use of Twitter by slowing down its speed, accusing the social media platform of repeatedly failing to remove banned content from its site. Roskomnadzor threatened to block the service completely, adding that there were more than 3,000 posts containing illegal content on it […]

World

Russia sues Google, Facebook, Twitter for not deleting protest content

Ihesiulo Grace 9 March 2021 0

Russian authorities are suing five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests, the Interfax news agency cited a Moscow court as saying on Tuesday. Twitter, Google, Facebook each have three cases against them, with each violation punishable by a fine of up to 4 million […]

Tech World

Russia accuses Twitter of breaking law by failing to delete content

Ihesiulo Grace 1 March 2021 0

Russia’s communications regulator accused Twitter on Monday of violating Russian law, saying the social media platform had not complied with some of its requests to delete banned content. Roskomnadzor said Twitter had failed to delete 2,862 posts containing material linked to suicide, pornography and drugs since 2017. It could be fined heavily if found guilty […]

World

Swedish prosecutor charges man with spying for Russia

Ihesiulo Grace 22 February 2021 0

A 47-year-old man in Sweden was on Monday charged with alledged espionage, providing Russia with information about Swedish companies in return for payment. The man was caught meeting a Russian intelligence officer working under diplomatic cover at a Stockholm restaurant in February 2019, the Swedish security service said. He was alleged to have been recruited […]

World

Election Interference from China, Russia and Iran, US Intelligence

Ihesiulo Grace 8 August 2020 0

The director of US intelligence on Friday raised concerns about interference in the 2020 election by China, Russia and Iran. U.S. intelligence has assessed that China is hoping President Donald Trump does not win reelection, Russia is working to denigrate Democrat Joe Biden and Iran is seeking to undermine democratic institutions, said Bill Evanina, director […]

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Russia reveals when it will mass produce COVID-19 vaccine

Ihesiulo Grace 3 August 2020 0

Russia said Monday it aims to launch mass production of a coronavirus vaccine next month and turn out “several million” doses per month by next year. READ ALSO: Trump hopes for COVID-19 vaccine by end of year, ‘maybe before’ Reports say Russia is pushing ahead with several vaccine prototypes and one trailed by the Gamaleya […]

Crime

Taxi driver kills girlfriend, pushes her body round town in a wheelbarrow

Ihesiulo Grace 27 May 2020 0

A Russian taxi driver allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death before pushing her corpse around town in a wheelbarrow. 25-year-old Cabbie Filip Grigoryev, reportedly had an argument with his unnamed girlfriend before being caught on CCTV wheeling the barrow around roads. Filip who drove his girlfriend’s body around town for an hour eventually dumped his […]

World

Helicopter crash-lands in Russia, killing four on board

Ihesiulo Grace 26 May 2020 0

A Russian military helicopter crash-landed on an airfield Tuesday in the far eastern region of Chukotka, killing four people, the military said. The crash involving a Mi-8 helicopter may have been caused by a technical malfunction, the Defence Ministry said. Three crew members and a technician on board died in the crash, according to the […]

News

Russia suspends use of ventilator type after hospital fires: regulator

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2020 0

Russia has suspended the use of Russian-made medical ventilators of a certain model manufactured after April 1, a state healthcare regulator said on Wednesday, following two hospital fires reported to involve two such machines. The Aventa-M medical ventilator was used at the Saint George’s Hospital in St Petersburg where five people died in a fire […]

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Overloaded ventilator fire kills five coronavirus patients in Russia: media

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2020 0

A fire apparently started by an overloaded ventilator killed five novel coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit in a Russian hospital on Tuesday, news agencies reported. Russia’s emergency ministry confirmed the death of intensive care patients in a hospital in the city of St. Petersburg but did not say how many people had been […]