Sept 11 (Reuters) - Russian diplomats in Taiwan last week screened a film on Japanese "militarism" and World War Two, causing concern in Taiwan's government which thinks Russia is helping China push its narrative of a rising Japanese military threat and sow discord over Taipei's relations with Tokyo and other Western partners.

Russia is expanding its network of cultural and educational centres in Africa as it seeks to strengthen ties beyond its military and security co-operation on the continent. The centres will promote the Russian language, education, science and culture, while supporting various projects, Russia's humanitarian agency says.

This hybrid campaign is all the war Russia wants or needs—and stoking fear that Moscow just might directly strike Ukraine’s European allies is part of it. If this is what Russian President Vladimir Putin is really up to in Europe,

Russia’s central bank has cut interest rates at its past ten meetings, from 21% in mid-2025 to 14% in July. On Friday, however, rate-setters will probably pause: 18 of 19 analysts polled by TASS, a state news agency,

Kramatorsk and Slovyansk are now the main focus of Russian ground assaults, and residents are being told to leave.

Lithuania is teaching civilians young and old to help defend their tiny nation from a hypothetical Russian invasion, and telling Putin, "We don't fear you."

The report details a number of cases involving the misuse of Claude in criminal and state hacking operations, including by Russia-linked groups. Overall, Anthropic said using AI has become so common for hackers that even the most low-level groups now automate broad swathes of their work.

It marked the first time that daily attacks by Moscow's new upgraded Geran drones were recorded in Ukrainian Air Force data. The growing use of jet-propelled and other varieties of drones prompted President Volodymyr Zelensky to condemn what he called an unfolding "horror" over the skies of Kyiv.

In December 2023, Finland closed its 1,340 km (832 mile) border with Russia— the longest frontier with Russia of any EU or NATO country—after more than 1,300 migrants arrived there without visas. Helsinki accused Moscow of weaponizing asylum seekers by sending them to the frontier to destabilize the Nordic country—accusations the Kremlin denied.

CIA director John Ratcliffe is preparing to take a bigger role in US negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, US officials have told their European counterparts, in a bid to jump-start moribund diplomatic efforts to end the four-and-a-half-year-long war.

MOSCOW, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that it did not rule out the resumption of peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States, but said it was too early to say when and where such talks might take place.

A new report by Amnesty International has accused Russia of tricking foreigners into fighting on Ukraine’s front lines in what amounts to “human trafficking”.