The Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it worried about a growing disregard for the rights of journalists in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Sputnik reports.
"We are alarmed that the rights of journalists in the Baltic states have been repeatedly violated," the ministry said in a Facebook post, timed to...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny plans to fly back to Russia on Sunday for the first time since he was poisoned in August, despite the risk of being jailed on his return from Germany, Reuters reports.
The decision, announced by Navalny on Wednesday, signals his intention to continue his political struggle...
A Russian judge has been asked to jail Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in absentia for having allegedly broken the terms of a suspended sentence he had been serving and for other infractions, court documents showed on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s leading critics, was airlifted to...
Russian artist and LGBT activist Yulia Tsvetkova has been hit with pornography charges a fourth time over artwork aimed at ending stigmas around the female anatomy, the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported Tuesday.
Tsvetkova, 27, was first charged with distributing pornography online in June 2020 after sharing artwork of vulvas...
Moscow does not rule out that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden may tweak outgoing President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, but believes that game-changing changes are unlikely, Russia's special presidential representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said in an interview with Sputnik.
"The change of the U.S. administration is...
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with senior officials on issues of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement ahead of his talks with the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders, the Kremlin said on Sunday, TASS reported.
"Ahead of a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Vladimir Putin...
Belarusians have brotherly feelings for all Russian nationals, not just for Russian people proper, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview aired on the Russia-1 TV channel, TASS reports.
"I was thinking more about what Russian citizens represent for Belarus, for Belarusian people, and also for myself. This is...
Trilateral talks of Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will be held on Monday, January 11, in Moscow at the initiative of the Russian head of state, TASS reports. The sides plan to review the implementation of the November 9,...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that his country plans to develop relations with Russia and China, TASS reported citing North Korea’s KCNA news agency.
Kim Jong-un was speaking at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, which opened on January 5.
In particular, Kim Jong-un noted that Pyongyang...
Russian citizens are not among those detained or injured in the January 6 riots outside the U.S. Congress, the Russian embassy in the U.S. said in a statement on Facebook on Friday, as reported by TASS.
"The Russian Embassy in the United States is closely monitoring the situation in connection with...
