When they took him in for interrogation, the Russian soldiers told Viktor Soldatov he would soon be allowed to return home. He was released nine months later, having endured treatment that drove him to attempt suicide in his cell. “They threw me on the table, spread me apart,” he recalls. “Four of them held me...
MOSCOW, Dec. 7 — Ilya Kiva, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament, was killed with a silenced weapon on Wednesday in a hotel park near Moscow, local media reported Thursday. An unknown assailant killed Kiva with a short-barreled gun with a silencer. His body was found in the park of the hotel where he...
Russia is capable of replacing the Ukrainian grain, both on a commercial and free-of-charge basis, especially as it expects another record harvest this year. This assurance was given by President Vladimir Putin, who stressed that Russia will continue its energetic efforts to provide supplies of grain, food products, fertilisers, and other goods to Africa despite...