Russian President Vladimir Putin has written to US President-elect Joe Biden to wish him a happy new year, and expressed confidence that they would soon work together to build improved relations “in the spirit of equality”, RT reported.
Putin's congratulations are part of a series of personalized letters he has...
The second experimental sample of the fundamentally upgraded strategic missile-carrying plane Tupolev-160M is undergoing ground tests at the flight test station of the Gorbunov aircraft plant in Kazan, a source in the defense-industrial complex told TASS.
"The second plane is on the way. Testing is in progress at the flight...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on criminal responsibility of up to five years of incarceration for gross violations of the foreign agents bill by individuals, media workers, as well as by members of unregistered political unions, TASS reported. The document was published on Wednesday on the...
A criminal case over allegations of large-scale fraud was initiated against Russian political opposition figure Alexey Navalny, a Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman, Svetlana Petrenko, Sputnik reports.
"The Main Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee has collected sufficient data, on the basis of which a criminal case has been initiated...
The Investigative Committee of Russia announced on Tuesday that it has launched a fresh probe into the affairs of opposition activist Alexey Navalny, to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to charge him with fraud, RT reported.
According to prosecutors, Navalny spent around 356 million rubles ($4.8 million) of money...
Russia confirmed 26,513 new coronavirus cases in the past day and the total case tally hit 3,131,550, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday, TASS informed.
In the past two days, the growth rate did not exceed 0.9%. Moscow confirmed 5,105 new coronavirus cases. Some 3,764 COVID-19 cases were...
Any hope of a quiet 2021 for Russia has been dashed as one of the country’s top officials warns it faces a series of court battles that risk confrontation with the West, including a fight over the world’s largest legal bill, RT reported.
In an interview published by Moscow news...
The Russian Ministry of Finance plans to borrow about 3.7 trillion rubles ($50.23bn) in 2021, about 75 billion rubles ($1.02bn) a week, Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said, as reported by TASS.
According to Siluanov, the pace of borrowing will depend on the external situation. "We will look at the...
The Russia-led Nord Stream 2 consortium said on Monday it has completed laying pipes for the project in German waters, finishing work on a 2.6 kilometer-long portion of the pipeline, which had been stalled by the threat of U.S. sanctions, Reuters reported.
“We have completed this work,” the consortium said...
Sheremetyevo International Airport is the busiest airport in Russia and the eighth-busiest airport in Europe, serving 49.9 million passengers in 2019. It also consistently gains recognition for the quality of its passenger service, its safety, and the efficiency of its flight handling and freight and passenger operations.
Alexander Ponomarenko has...
