Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan has told Russian national television she had been diagnosed with a serious illness.

Kremlin propagandists are thrilled by the outcome of Putin’s summit with Trump and happy to brag about how he pulled it off.

Russian "cyber partisans" hacked a Russian TV provider on Aug. 24, broadcasting footage that revealed the country’s real battlefield and internal situation, a source in Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) told the Kyiv Independent on Aug. 25.

Trump dismissed the rumors about his health, posting on Truth Social that he had "never felt better." Why It Matters. Trump has been a favorite topic for Russian state television,

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry condemned Woody Allen for speaking at a Russian film festival, calling his participation in the event “a disgrace and an insult” to the victims of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Censorship in Russia is as old as the nation’s mass media. Imperial censors banned or cut Leo Tolstoy’s books and imprisoned Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Siberia when the writers questioned the czar’s authority. After the Revolution, an army of bureaucrats vetted everything that was published or shown in the country for signs of capitalist heresy.

Russian drones breached Poland’s airspace and, experts said, by Kremlin design or not, the incident tested NATO’s readiness to defend its easternmost members.