Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had thwarted a planned “terror” attack on a power site in Kaliningrad region and that it had arrested a suspect, the Interfax news agency reported.
The report said the FSB had seized a home-made bomb and that the alleged attacker had been...
A Russian Su-27 fighter jet was scrambled to intercept two B-1B Lancer strategic bombers of the US Air Force over the Baltic Sea, Russia’s National Defense Control Center (at the Russian Defense Ministry) told reporters on Wednesday.
Russian radars detected two air targets approaching the national sovereign airspace. A Su-27...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Interior Ministry agencies react within legal bounds to attempts to involve underage children in unauthorized street rallies, TASS informed.
"The fact that underage children are dragged into illegal and unauthorized street rallies is a violation of law," the president noted Wednesday when opening...
The latest sanctions by the United States and the European Union against Russian individuals and organizations are intervention in Russia’s internal affairs, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Wednesday, adding that such restrictions were unacceptable, TASS reported.
"We regard any such restrictions as absolutely unacceptable," Peskov said....
A Russian court on Tuesday ordered former journalist Ivan Safronov to be kept in custody until May 7 on charges of treason, the court’s press officer said, Reuters reports.
Safronov, who left journalism and began working at Russia’s space agency in May, was detained by security agents outside his flat...
Twitter is violating Russia’s laws by not deleting, at the request of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), tweets with information deemed to be prohibited in Russia. According to the agency's website, the total number of refusals to remove information exceeded 2,800,...
Twenty-five years after joining the Council of Europe Russia is set to actively cultivate cooperation with the organization and its member-states, and the rumors on its imminent withdrawal are unfounded, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe Ivan Soltanovsky told TASS on Sunday.
"The media regularly circulate rumors without...
The United States may announce additional sanctions on Russia within weeks, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters, TASS informed.
In response to a question when Washington would announce if there would be additional sanctions on Russia, Psaki said that it would be "weeks, not months." "It’s an ongoing...
Russian officials have condemned the United States’ airstrikes in Syria, accusing Washington of an “outrageous” violation of international law on Friday, The Moscow Times reports.
U.S. President Joe Biden directed airstrikes overnight against infrastructure facilities in eastern Syria belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militant groups, killing at least 22 people. In...
Russian citizen Vladimir Vasilyev was sentenced to eight years in a maximum-security prison for collecting and passing on state secrets to foreign intelligence services, the press service of the Trans-Baikal Regional Court in Siberia said on Thursday, TASS reports.
"Russian citizen Vladimir Vasilyev was convicted by the Regional Court under...
