(Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court refused to consider supervisory appeal of prominent nationalist and former militia commander Igor Girkin against his four-year jail term, TASS agency reported early on Monday. Girkin accused President Vladimir Putin and the army of failures in the war in Ukraine and was convicted a year ago of inciting extremism, a…
A phone call that The Washington Post said took place between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may be the latest diplomatically unconventional conversation that has taken place between the pair, although the Kremlin denied on Monday that they had spoken. Trump has said that he had spoken to about 70 world leaders since his election…
China and Russia have “a common understanding of what needs to be done”, Moscow’s new defence minister said during a trip to Beijing, where he met top Chinese generals. During his Tuesday meeting with Zhang Youxia, vice-chairman of China’s top command body the Central Military Commission, Belousov said: “The Defence Ministries of Russia and China…
Posts by Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly Twitter, have been hit with more community notes than Russian state news outlet TASS. Musk ranked 55 on Community Notes Leaderboard—a site which showcases the X users who have received the most notes. He had notched up 89 Community Notes. By comparison TASS, a Russian…