Award-winning Russian film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov was given a suspended three-year jail sentence on Friday after being convicted of embezzlement, a much more lenient punishment than his supporters had expected, Reuters reported.
Many in the liberal cultural establishment saw the case as a bid to silence someone whose...
Russia said on Thursday it has quit a voluntary United Nations arrangement that aimed to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria from being hit by the warring parties, Reuters reported.
Russia made the decision following an internal U.N. inquiry in April that found it was “highly probable” the...
A Russian court declared award-winning film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov guilty of embezzlement and was expected to hand down a sentence later on Friday in a case that has prompted an outcry among the cultural elite, Reuters reported.
The 50-year-old art director at Moscow’s avant-garde Gogol Centre theatre was...
Nearly 60% of Russians polled said that during self-isolation, they worked on personal growth and education, the poll in possession of TASS held by HeadHunter recruiting website informs.
From March 25 until June, 55% of those polled used education services, with 57% of them interested in personal growth, 46% saying...
The turnout at the online vote on the amendments to Russia’s Constitution amounted to 49.51% at 06.30 Moscow time on Friday, Deputy Chairman of Moscow’s Civic Chamber Alexei Venediktov wrote on his Telegram channel, TASS reports.
"The turnout at the online vote was 49.51% at 06:30. About 2,000 people voted...
Russia cannot be certain that confidential talks with the U.S. will not become public following publications of information from closed meetings, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Primakov Readings' online session "The USA in the Crises Swirl: Strategic Consequences."
"There is a trap now: we cannot be certain that some discussions, the delicate,...
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday accused Russia and Poland of interfering in the upcoming presidential election, claims that were quickly denied by the Kremlin, The Moscow Times said in a report.
The interference is coming from "those who live in Poland and those who incite from Russia," Lukashenko said...
The European Union’s top court on Thursday upheld sanctions against Russia’s second-largest bank VTB, dismissing the lender’s appeal against the restrictive measures the bloc had first imposed in 2014 over the turmoil in Ukraine.
The sanctions restrict the bank’s access to some financial transactions and to capital markets in the...
Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov missed a World War Two victory parade in Russia on Wednesday after two people who accompanied him on the flight to Moscow tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival, his office said, as reported by Reuters.
The parade, marking the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory...
Russian football club CSKA Moscow has been fined 100,000 rubles (over $1,450) for its fans’ racist chants addressed to Zenit St. Petersburg FC’s Brazilian forward Malcom last weekend, the press office of the Russian Football Union (RFU) announced on Tuesday, TASS reports.
On June 20, Zenit St. Petersburg FC defeated...
