Abakan News Today

Moscow is striking a series of deals with the Sudanese Armed Forces while the Wagner Group continues to support the Rapid Support Forces

Russian schoolchildren as young as 9 are being drafted into government-run programs to produce items for troops fighting in Ukraine. Whether they are knitting items for amputees or assembling drones, the war is increasingly being brought home to Russia's next generation.

The death yesterday in a Russian penal colony of Alexei Navalny might naturally bring to mind the story of Walter Ciszek, S.J., the famed American Jesuit who spent 23 years in Soviet captivity.

An RFE/RL investigation found that a former Russian envoy to the EU whom European diplomats say works for Russian intelligence is coordinating between Wagner forces and local police in the Central African Republic following the mysterious death of Kremlin-connected warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin.

In order to offset a massive increase in spending on national defense and security, the Russian government is gutting funding for social spending, education, healthcare, and utilities.

Siberia's stunning mountains cradle a 2,000-year-old Chinese palace. This Han Dynasty relic, discovered in Xiongnu territory, remains a captivating historical mystery.

Russia has sought the S-500 as a means of countering hypersonic weapons, and it would be able to reach farther into enemy territory.

Serbia's troop deployment on Kosovo's border is similar to Russia's behavior toward Ukraine before its full-scale invasion, the Kosovar foreign minister said, urging the European Union to take action against Belgrade such as freezing its candidacy status.

Bulgaria will ban the entry of cars with Russian license plates by the end of the day on October 2, the head of Bulgaria's border police, Anton Zlatanov has announced.

A simmering feud between Elon Musk and Ukraine neared a boil after the tech billionaire mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's continued pleas for wartime aid from the West, triggering Kyiv to respond with accusations Musk had become a tool of Moscow by spreading its "propaganda."