Russia-based web searches for pirated Microsoft products including the Windows operating system have skyrocketed after the company halted sales in the country over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kommersant daily reported Monday. 

The U.S. tech giant behind the software that runs on over 1 billion devices worldwide announced the suspension of new

Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since 1918 after months of finding ways around Western sanctions that blocked Moscow’s payment routes over its invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reported Monday.

It will likely take time to confirm that Russia has defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt after the grace period on

Russian student Sofia Sapega has sought a pardon from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a month after being sentenced to six years in prison on extremism charges, the BBC’s Russian service reported Monday. 

Sapega and her then-boyfriend, Belarusian dissident Roman Protasevich, were detained in May 2021 when Minsk authorities forcibly