The interior ministry said the charges concerned funds that had been allocated for building defensive structures in the ...

The former governor of Russia's Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, was detained on Wednesday on suspicion of fraud, state news ...

Aleksei B. Smirnov, together with his deputy and other accomplices, was accused of embezzling money earmarked for building ...

The former governor of Russia's Kursk region, parts of which were seized by Ukrainian forces in August 2024, was detained on ...

The Russian authorities have arrested Alexey Smirnov, the former head of the country’s embattled Kursk region. Smirnov stands ...

Maj. Oleh Shyriaiev's first experience of North Koreans came at the contact line near Kruglenkoe -- a village around 8 miles ...

Kyiv forces hit Russia's Kursk region that borders Ukraine with dozens of drones, killing an elderly woman, injuring nine people and sparking fries in several buildings in the region's administrative ...

A Moscow court on Wednesday ordered former Kursk region governor Alexei Smirnov held in custody as authorities investigate 'major fraud' allegations ahead of his June 15 trial, according to state ...

An elderly woman has been killed and nine people injured after Ukraine launched a "massive" drone attack on the border region ...

As Ukraine's seven-month-long incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast came to what appears to be its end, Ukrainian soldiers and military experts are questioning the operation's goal and the long-term ...

An 85-year-old woman died and nine others were injured in Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's Kursk that borders Ukraine. The ...