Russia

Over 10,400 residential houses have been flooded in Russia’s western Siberia, the Volga region, and Urals, Xinhua reported yesterday. In the Orenburg region, more than 6,100 people have been evacuated, with 33 temporary accommodation centers set up for 33,000 people,…

President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia’s election on Sunday with 87.8% of the vote, cementing his already tight grip on power for another 6 years. According to the Central Election Commission of Russia, 112 million people…

Six suspected members of the Islamic State group were reportedly killed in a gun battle in the volatile North Caucasus region of Russia, the Associated Press reported yesterday. The country’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) described the incident as a “counterterrorism…