EADaily, December 28th, 2025. The tankers of the shadow fleet, which carry the lion's share of Russian oil, are changing flags and have recently increasingly become Russian. Thus, Western countries are being shown that Russia is ready to protect ships,

Gloucester have been criticised by their own fans for printing the Russian flag on the back of Kirill Gotovtsev’s shirt in contravention of the country’s widespread ostracism from international sport. Since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has ...

The Russian flag has been raised in several parts of the eastern town of Avdiivka in Donetsk, hours after Ukrainian forces beat a hasty retreat from the ruins of a town they’ve been defending for a decade. But Ukraine’s army is under pressure at ...

For as long as Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia, his opponents have faced two foes: relentless, spiraling oppression by the state and the internal discord that often undermines their efforts to fight against a deeply entrenched adversary. Ahead of what ...

Gloucester will remove the Russia flag from the back of Kirill Gotovtsev’s shirt for all matches moving forward and have issued an apology “for any offence this may have caused”. The inclusion of a Russia flag on the back of Gotovtsev’s shirt was ...