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 ...

Major scandal in Russia: The former Governor of Kursk region Alexey Smirnov has been remanded in custody for two months ...

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

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 ...

A Ukrainian drone attack killed an 85-year-old woman and injured nine people in the Russian city of Kursk near the border ...

Russia is close to regaining full control of its western Kursk region after pushing Ukrainian forces from one of their last ...

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

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 ...