Mobile internet access has been shut off in Moscow in recent days after similar outages in dozens of regions.

Russian authorities increasingly impose broad mobile internet shutdowns under the pretext of public safety, Human Rights Watch said today. Over the past month, they blocked mobile internet and cellular access in areas of Moscow and Saint Petersburg for almost three weeks.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that ​Moscow had summoned the Japanese ‌ambassador in protest over an investment made by a Japanese startup ​in Ukrainian interceptor drone technology.

This week, for the third time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia claimed it fully occupied Ukraine’s Luhansk region.

Russia on Monday expelled a British diplomat over accusations of spying that were rejected as “complete nonsense” by the U.K., a second such move this year that comes as tensions spiral between Moscow and the West.

In Russia, protesting against the war in Ukraine can be dangerous. But one Russian poet living in Moscow, Vadim Dzyuba, is speaking out.

Russia’s economy has come under increasing strain as the war in Ukraine continues to drain resources.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus said Russia no longer has the “upper hand” in the war against Ukraine in a recent interview describing Moscow’s receding strength. “I think what’s