Court documents allege that suspect Dylan Earl was connected to the proscribed terrorist group the Wagner Group, the domestic Press Association news agency reported.
Sanctions have made it harder to access Western cultural products such as films and music, so younger Russians are turning to countries like South Korea and Japan for entertainment.
Moscow vetoed a resolution to prevent an orbital arms race, prompting the US to ask if Russia was hiding something.
The weapons, with double the striking distance, were used for the first time to bomb a Russian airfield in Crimea and Russian forces in another occupied area.
Reports suggest US has discussed sanctions on some Chinese banks over their trade with Russia, but analysts say moves to remove China from the Swift interbank financial system could create a ‘huge problem’ for global trade.
It is the Russia’s highest-profile corruption case since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022
The US Congress gave final approval to a long-delayed US$61 billion aid package for Ukraine on Tuesday. Ukraine hopes to quickly get fresh supplies to the war zone as Russia makes battlefield gains.
The move comes as Kyiv faces manpower shortages in the fighting against Russia, and is tied to a new law that includes tougher penalties against draft dodgers.
Last autumn, Azerbaijan recaptured the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region from Armenian separatists that effectively ended a three-decade stand-off between the neighbours over control of the mountainous region.
In a phone call on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked US President Joe Biden for unblocking US$61 billion in military aid. US Senate is to take up the measure on Tuesday.
Ukraine says its soldiers will benefit from the aid package as Western leaders laud the US move, noting it will help ‘make us all safer’.
The Russian president ‘frightens people, he keeps them in fear’, said Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the dissident who died in a Siberian prison camp in February, in an interview.
A long-delayed US$61 billion in funding for Kyiv’s forces has cleared the House but still needs a vote in the Senate.
The Ukrainian president is seeking more air defence systems from Western allies after a drone of fatal drone and missile attacks from Russia.
Ukraine said that, for the first time since Russia’s invasion, it had downed a Russian long-range bomber used to fire cruise missiles at its cities.
At a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Italy, a US official said China is ‘contributing to Russia’s ability to prosecute’ the Ukraine war in ways that threaten all of Europe.
Poland’s National Prosecutor said the man, arrested on Wednesday, was accused of being prepared to pass airport security information to Russian agents.
Legislation comes amid alarm in Washington over volume of material moving from Beijing to Moscow and said to be turning up on battlefields in Ukraine.
Speaker Mike Johnson is seeking final passage on Saturday for the package, which includes US$61 billion in funding for Kyiv long-delayed by Trump loyalists.
President Zelensky called on Kyiv’s allies to rush in air defence support after the city, which had a pre-war population of 300,000, became the latest target of an intensifying Russian air strike campaign.
YouTube channels not only provide income, but also serve as a means for women to communicate their messages, experiences and aspirations, one analyst said.