Moscow and Kiev announced the exchange of hundreds of prisoners of war on Thursday, with 500 on each side repatriated in a swap mediated by the United Arab Emirates and the United States. The Russian

MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - The city of Moscow, Russia's wealthiest federal unit, will cut its large investment programme for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, a sign of deteriorating regional finances in the fifth year of the conflict in Ukraine.

A Russian mogul who once called sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell his “soulmate” was found dead in a luxury Moscow apartment Monday, according to reports — just weeks after his name surfaced in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Russian officials say an unidentified assailant has detonated an explosive device next to a patrol vehicle in Moscow, killing himself and a police officer and leaving two other officers injured.

The Moscow Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday that Sam Martinet is resigning from her role as the chamber’s executive director. Martinet has been hired to work at the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport.

A Russian-flagged liquified natural gas (LNG) tanker, the Arctic Metagaz, has reportedly caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea, multiple media outlets reported on March 3.

In the Moscow region, the authorities intend to reduce about 15% of employees of government agencies and civil servants. This was announced on March 4 by the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, on the portal mos.