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Yevgeny Prigozhin, an elusive Russian oligarch linked to an election-meddling troll farm, now openly admits he founded the private military company doing Vladimir Putin's bidding in Ukraine. But his brazen new approach could spell trouble for the president.

Moscow's mayor said on Monday that military mobilisation in the Russian capital was now complete while St Petersburg sacked the official in charge there, the latest sign of problems with the unpopular and chaotic draft for the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi on Tuesday that the situation around Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is "of concern". At a meeting in St Petersburg shown on Russian state television, Putin told Grossi, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog,…

The underground prison is situated in a bunker under a flood ravaged home near St Petersburg, Russia, and was first discovered last year. It is modelled after Kresty prison

St. Petersburg and Tampa are preparing for what could be their first direct hit by a major hurricane in over a century. Officials there are urging people to comply with evacuation orders immediately.

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Protesters shouted ‘we are not cannon fodder’

Yegor Komarov said he "nibbled to just take a taste" after a headless and repeatedly stabbed corpse fell out of his car when he crashed his Mitsubishi into a fence in St Petersburg, Russia

More than 500 detained in both Moscow and St Petersburg, says monitoring group, after Putin orders call-up of military reservists

A petition calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin to resign has been circulating in Russia since Monday, with dozens of local politicians risking prison sentences to sign it. FRANCE 24 spoke to Ksenia Torstrem, a municipal deputy for the St. Petersburg district and one of the leading petitioners demanding Putin’s…