The Chinese president also said that Beijing is ready to work with Moscow to push for a “more just and reasonable” global order.
South Korea's spy agency believes Pyongyang plans to deploy another 6,000 soldiers and engineers, with about 1,000 combat engineers already in Russia.
Students going back to school will find their classrooms transformed once again by the war in Ukraine.
Xi Jinping has gathered the leaders of Russia and India, as well as dignitaries from around 20 Eurasian countries for the summit.
Independent media noted it was Yanukovych’s first public appearance since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The 6.0-magnitude quake struck eastern Afghanistan just before midnight on Sunday, killing around 800 people in the remote Kunar province.
From January through August, authorities registered more than 6,500 fires across 4.5 million hectares, or nearly one-third less than during the same period last year.
Students across Russia mark Sept. 1, the traditional first day of the new school year, with flowers and festivities.
Bulgarian authorities believed Russia was responsible for the jamming, which happened on Sunday, but it was not clear whether the aircraft was deliberately targeted.
The blaze at the Simonovka landfill began last Monday and has spread in recent days amid high temperatures and strong winds.
Pro-Kremlin media reported over the weekend that dozens of Polish bikers had broken into a memorial complex in the Tver region to hold a “torchlight ceremony” and were subsequently arrested.
“We know this crime was not random. There is a Russian trace to it,” Ukrainian police chief Ivan Vyhivskyi said in a statement.
The Kremlin leader said “work is already underway” to implement “understandings” reached during last month’s summit.
Officers tried to speak to the driver, who then allegedly "drove his vehicle into the gates of the property," police said in a statement.
Fico is one of the few EU leaders to have maintained regular contact with Putin since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Sixteen others, including two children, were wounded in the region of Zaporizhzhia during the overnight strikes, authorities said.
Putin will also meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a regional summit in China next week, officials in Moscow told reporters.
Founded in 1918, Muzyka grew into a Soviet-era monopoly and remains the publisher of works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
The French president said last week that Putin “needs to keep eating… That means he is a predator, an ogre at our gates.”
Rospotrebnadzor said the virus poses no threat of spreading in Russia because it is not transmitted between people.
Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov claimed earlier this week that the transition to the Kremlin-backed app would not be forced on teachers and parents.
Both sides are locked in a slow, costly fight in the Donbas, with Russia inching forward in small groups while Ukraine races to delay the advance.
Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands will potentially foot the bill for more than 3,000 air-launched cruise missiles.
Shchedrin drew on Russian literature and folklore for works including the ballets “The Little Humpbacked Horse” and “The Seagull” and the opera “Lolita.”
The government is pulling out all the stops to make Max Russia's "super-app." But its technical flaws and privacy risks are hard to ignore.
Krasnodar officials said debris from a drone downed by air defense systems sparked fires in three separate spots near the resort town of Gelendzhik.
American officials told The New York Times they suspect Russia or operatives working for its intelligence services of flying drones over supply routes in the German state of Thuringia.
Rights lawyers said it appears to be the first publicly known instance of the FSB trying to gain access to Alisa, which is similar to Amazon’s Alexa.
The list includes 17 wartime songs, such as “Soldiers Are Coming” and 20 others like “Red Sun” and “My Moscow.”
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said crude deliveries to Hungary would restart “in test mode with smaller quantities.”
The South China Morning Post wrote that “the stage is set” for Putin and Kim to appear alongside Xi in a show of defiance against U.S. pressure.
At least 22 people, including three children, were killed in the early morning missile and drone attack, which hit a residential area in the city.
Police accuse Vladimir Bazarov of overseeing the embezzlement of around $3.1 million by inflating costs for anti-tank structures.
Norway joined EU sanctions against two Russian fishing companies early last month, sparking condemnation from Moscow.
Russia signed bilateral pension agreements with Estonia and Latvia in 2011 that have remained in place despite the war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin’s top spokesman said preventing NATO’s presence in Ukraine was “probably” one of the initial drivers of the 2022 invasion.
Local media suggested that Mayor Dmitry Naumov’s reported arrest may be linked to an organized crime group described as a “cemetery mafia.”
Emergency crews brought 37 people to safety, including two children, after floods hit the village of Kolkhoznoye near the city of Nevelsk.
Gazprom Media said earlier that Rutube would be combined with streaming service Premier and TikTok-style app Yappy under a single brand.
Prosecutors claimed Erna Moisejeva had been working with Russia's FSB, providing it with information about Estonian military technology.
According to Izvestia, structural elements known as stringers, which reinforce the fuselage, were not properly secured in the section between the cockpit and the passenger door.
The Russian economy is still posting GDP growth, but the war-driven boost from heavy budget spending is fading.
The skyscraper will replace the Soviet-era Council for Mutual Economic Assistance building, which was deemed structurally unsound in October.
Natalia Nagovitsyna has been stranded at an altitude of around 7,000 meters for two weeks after breaking her leg while descending Victory Peak on Aug. 12.
The rights group Crew Against Torture warned the withdrawal could worsen conditions in Russian prisons, where reports of torture are already common.
Firefighters battled the blaze for days, using so much water that nearby communities faced shortages until supplies were restored on Monday.
Trump repeated a familiar line on Putin, saying their conversations are always “good,” while adding that Russia’s bombing of Ukrainian cities leaves him “angry.”
Authorities on the isolated island chain near Japan had earlier imposed a 10-liter gasoline limit per customer.
The Prosecutor General’s Office accused IBO of “distorting well-known facts, spreading anti-Russian propaganda and fomenting interethnic discord.”
From Chechnya to Georgia, Russia has a pattern of circumventing or outright violating the terms of its agreements.
