Near-term prospects for ending the Ukraine conflict are not looking good, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told the Turkish Anadolu agency on Wednesday. “Unfortunately, all developments are showing a totally different direction. The weapons deliveries, the very open reference to nuclear capacities, the offensives against each other from the two sides, the Ukrainian soldiers being…

Ivan Barbashev was conspicuously missing from a collage of the victorious LV Golden Knights Las Vegas Golden Knights forward Ivan Barbashev was not included in the International Ice Hockey Federation photo collage celebrating the team’s victory in the NHL championship on Tuesday evening.

The Russian parliament on Wednesday advanced the proposal to outlaw almost all sex reassignment surgery, as well as gender changes on official documents. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin cited US statistics as an argument to proceed quickly and “ban all this fornication.”