WARSAW – After Russian police started using facial-recognition cameras to identify men wanted by the military authorities, a young bank worker spent weeks avoiding the Moscow metro. But on a snowy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's has hardened its once-avoidable conscription system amid the war (Alexander NEMENOV) (Alexander NEMENOV/AFP/AFP) After ...

Warsaw (AFP) – After Russian police started using facial-recognition cameras to identify men wanted by military authorities, a young bank worker spent weeks avoiding the Moscow metro. But on snowy ...

But on snowy Friday evening in late 2024, heavy traffic pushed him underground to visit his mother. At the next station, two officers entered the carriage and detained him for draft evasion. Within ...

March 4, 2024: Conscription has been disappearing since the Cold War and the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991. Russia kept it going but the number of conscripts who showed up declined each year. In ...

NATO is moving to disrupt Russia's hybrid attacks before they land by bringing in private companies and military assets to counter everything from sabotage to drone incursions, a key strategist at the ...

Meet the rights defender charged with protecting the country’s fighters — not from Russia, but from abuses by their own commanders. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In wartime, it’s not ...