President Putin has appointed an official to supervise the country’s exit from the suspended 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Russia has indicated its intention to formally withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), a military transparency agreement that is currently suspended. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has been selected…

Blazes have been extinguished after threatening over 20,000 residential buildings, the Emergencies Ministry has reported Forest fires threatening residential areas in Russia’s Kurgan Region have been put out thanks to the efforts of over 1,200 firefighters, the Emergencies Ministry reported on Wednesday.

Officials have been instructed to call Kaliningrad by its Warsaw-preferred name, ‘Krolewiec’ Poland’s decision to call the Russian city of Kaliningrad ‘Krolewiec’, as it was known in the 15th century, “borders on madness,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Warsaw objects to the city’s current name because of its association with a Soviet statesman, whom Warsaw…