‘I’m a Real-Life Katyusha’: As Russia Hikes Payments for Soldiers, Their Wives Flaunt Newfound Affluence
[The Moscow Times] - 01/16/2025
Soldiers’ wives and girlfriends are taking to social media to show off their comfortable new lives, often while espousing their pro-Kremlin views.
In Russian newspapers
Previous peace efforts have proven futile, with Israel refusing to stop hostilities and the Palestinian militants (…)
[RT] - 16/01/2025
Arrest report states that Pulitzer Prize winner Darrin Bell was detained for possessing obscene underage material (…)
[RT] - 16/01/2025
Bank of Russia lowers dollar exchange rate for January 17 to 102.38 rubles
The official euro exchange rate was lowered to 105.8072 rubles
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/01/2025
Google's global search market share falls, first time in 9 years
According to the report, Google's lost search traffic is gradually redistributed between Bing, Yandex, and Yahoo
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/01/2025
Russia ships first batch of wheat to Togo — Russian embassy
Russia boosted its export supplies to Africa by 35% over the first ten months of last year, the embassy said
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/01/2025
Canada is preparing to impose retaliatory tariffs on up to $105 billion worth of US goods if Donald Trump enforces (…)
[RT] - 16/01/2025
Another mobilization not necessary, special op successful — Russian MP
According to Andrey Kartapolov, the Russian Armed Forces are fully supplying the group in the special operation zone (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/01/2025
Real effective ruble exchange rate rises by 1% in December
The real effective exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar in December fell by 0.7%, and since the beginning (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/01/2025
A government minister has condemned the advert – which showed a plane flying toward the Eiffel Tower – as (…)
[RT] - 16/01/2025
Deal on Ukraine could be made without Kiev's involvement, ex-Foreign Minister admits
According to Pavel Klimkin, the formula of "nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine," which he himself (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/01/2025
Russian Soldier Jailed for Accidentally Shooting Down Friendly Helicopter
Captain Igor Pashkov turned himself in to the authorities last May, “admitting that he could have made a fatal (…)
[The Moscow Times] - 16/01/2025
