'This will be unhealthy for the whole world -- for everyone'
Russia's media regulator on Monday blocked 49 websites linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as pressure mounts on opponents of President Vladimir Putin ahead of parliamentary elections. The blocked websites include Navalny's main website...
Interest rate raised to 6.5% after inflation reaches highest level since 2016
'Most advanced anti-missile system in the world'
The Litvinenko poisoning frayed diplomatic ties between London and Moscow
The United States will seek global rules on how to prevent misuse of artificial intelligence, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, as he renewed warnings against Russia over hacking. Speaking at a conference on emerging technologies, the top...
Search teams have found wreckage of the An-26 passenger plane with 28 people aboard that disappeared earlier Tuesday in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula, the country's aviation agency told AFP. "Rescuers found the wreckage of the aircraft.
Moscow does not believe in tears' won him the Oscar for best foreign film
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Fillon joins Zaroubejneft board and becomes latest top politician with oil ties
Mission is to shoot first film in orbit before Americans
A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced two members of the Jehovah's Witnesses to seven and eight years in prison, the US-based religious movement said, accusing Moscow of setting a "new record for cruelty." Moscow outlawed the Jehovah's Witnesses in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Washington of involvement in an incident involving a British destroyer off the coast of Moscow-annexed Crimea. Last week, Russia said it fired warning shots to ward off the British navy's HMS...
Russia on Wednesday reported 669 coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, a record number of fatalities for the second day in a row, according to a government tally. The country is grappling with a spike of infections spurred by the highly infectious...
Russian police on Tuesday were searching the apartments of investigative journalists and their relatives as authorities pile more pressure on independent media. Proyekt (The Project), one of Russia's last remaining independent media outlets...
The Euro 2020 quarter-final in Saint Petersburg on Friday will go ahead as planned, Russia’s tournament organisers told AFP Monday, as the city posted a new pandemic high for daily virus deaths. “The quarter-final will take place as planned,” the...
Oart two in a series avout Maltese in the Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829
Britain's government said Sunday it was investigating how secret defence documents, outlining the movements of a warship that led to Russia firing warning shots off the Crimean coast, were found at a bus stop in England. The Ministry of Defence said...
Moscow authorities reimposed work-from-home restrictions Friday as the Russian capital posted a new daily record for COVID-19 deaths due to a surging outbreak of the Delta variant. In a decree published on his website, the city's mayor Sergei Sobyanin...
German police have arrested a Russian scientist working at a German university, accusing him of spying for Moscow, prosecutors said, in a case that risks further inflaming bilateral tensions. Federal prosecutors said in a statement that the suspect,...
More than 9,000 new infections in Russian capital detected in one day
Moscow has closed its Euro 2020 fan zone and banned gatherings of more than 1,000 because of a spike in COVID-19 cases, the mayor of the Russian capital said on Friday. “I didn’t want to do this, but we have to,” Sergei Sobyanin wrote on his website a...
The Kremlin was guarded about future dialogue with Washington on Thursday, a day after the first face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Joe Biden. The two leaders met in Geneva on Wednesday to ease soaring...
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that discussions in his first summit with Vladimir Putin were "positive", but warned his Russian counterpart that Washington would not tolerate interference in US democracy. "The tone of the entire meeting... was...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that his first face-to-face meeting with US counterpart Joe Biden was constructive and the two sides had agreed to discuss cybersecurity. "The conversation was absolutely constructive", Putin told...
US and Russian leaders begin gruelling diplomatic face-off
Workers have until August 15 to get vaccinated against COVID-19
President Vladimir Putin has renewed an offer to swap prisoners ahead of his first summit Wednesday with Joe Biden, who has come under growing pressure to win the release of Americans from Russian jails. Biden, who has vowed a clear-eyed, tougher...
Authorities in Saint Petersburg, which is hosting a series of Euro 2020 matches, said Monday they were tightening anti-coronavirus restrictions in an effort to curb a new spike in infections. Officials in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s worst-hit city...
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Sunday that residents of the Russian capital who get their first coronavirus jab will now take part in a lottery to win a car. The move comes as authorities seek to speed up Russia's vaccination drive that has...
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