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

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

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

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, Alexei Smirnov, was detained on Wednesday on suspicion of fraud, state news ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Ukraine claims enemy troops who took part in Sudzha attack were not heroes, but victims of poor military planning ...

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

Alexey Smirnov suspected of $12.1M in fraud linked to construction of defensive fortifications along border with Ukraine - ...