The combined wealth of Russian billionaires has reached a record US$625.5 billion, surpassing the previous record of US$606.2 billion set in 2021, prior to Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Olga Ionaitis, winner of the 2024 Presidential Prize for Writing and Art for Children and Young People The Presidential Prize was awarded for her contribution to the development of the Russian ...

At just 23, Pavel Stepchenko of Russia becomes the youngest-ever pensioner due to leveraging a legal loophole in the Russian pension law. By working under martial law conditions, he accumulated ...

What just happened? Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, has celebrated the communications platform hitting one billion monthly active users by calling rival WhatsApp a "cheap, watered ...

Telegram reached 1 billion monthly active users, its CEO said. CEO Pavel Durov took a shot at WhatsApp, calling it "a cheap, watered-down imitation of Telegram." Durov has been allowed to leave ...

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the service now has more than 1 billion active users. This number is up from last year’s reported 950 million monthly active users. Durov also noted ...

President Petr Pavel said the changing global security order is challenging long-held assumptions and requires Europe to be ready to act, even without the U.S. Speaking at a Prague Castle conference, ...

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, no longer has to stay in France. A source told AFP that the investigating judge in charge of Durov’s case has accepted a request to ...

Pavel Durov said that the investigation into illicit activity on the messaging app he runs is ongoing, but that he had returned home to Dubai. By Eve Sampson and Adam Satariano Pavel Durov, the ...

PARIS – Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been allowed to temporarily leave France, where he is charged with multiple infractions linked to allegedly enabling organised crime, sources told AFP.

Ukrainian media aired footage of Ukraine’s SBU Security Service arresting a State Space Agency employee suspected of state treason, with the takedown appearing to unfold during a meeting, Ukrainska ...