Wall Street Journal correspondent in Moscow, covering Russia and the region. Previously in London. georgi.kantchev@wsj.com, DM for Signal/Telegram
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The walkout, one of the country’s biggest in decades, is part of a wave of labor unrest sparked by higher prices in Europe.
By: Alexandra Bruell, Georgi Kantchev, Yuliya Chernova, Sam Schechner
Russia’s media landscape in which Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich worked is more dangerous than the one in which journalists operated before the invasion of Ukraine.
By: Georgi Kantchev, Benjamin Katz
Sanctions have cut off access to parts, software and technical skills needed for the key upkeep of hundreds of commercial jets, raising concerns over safety.
By: Georgi Kantchev
Russia is moving to address a $29 billion first-quarter state budget deficit—a gap that is approaching the government’s deficit target for the entire year.
By: Nancy A. Youssef, Louise Radnofsky, Georgi Kantchev
For detainees like Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, release often rests on identifying Russian prisoners to swap them for.
By: Georgi Kantchev, Isabel Coles
The Russian president traveled to the Kherson and Luhansk regions and was briefed by senior officers, the Kremlin said, without specifying when the trip took place.
Moscow said one of its jet fighters had accidentally dropped a weapon over Belgorod near the Ukrainian border, leaving several injured.
By: Paul Hannon, Laurence Norman, Georgi Kantchev
A cluster of former Soviet republics has emerged as a major transshipment hub for shipments of U.S. and European dual-use goods to Russia.
By: Georgi Kantchev
Weeks after being sentenced to eight years in a penal colony, opposition activist Roman Protasevich said he had received a pardon.
By: Georgi Kantchev, Ian Lovett
Moscow said it had fended off the largest Ukrainian assault in months in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv moved to retake the initiative in the 15-month war.
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