The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday it had prevented a terror attack that a 17-year-old male wanted to stage in the city of Tambov, Sputnik reports.
According to the Federal Security Service, the teenager planned to use an improvised explosive device.
"The FSB has prevented a terror attack...
Russian law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and took her in for questioning early on Friday after raiding her home, Reuters reports.
There was no immediate comment from the police.
Supporters of Navalny said the police action appeared to be...
Around one-third of Russians believe that leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny was not poisoned, according to an independent survey published Thursday, The Moscow Times reported.
Navalny fell into a coma on Aug. 20 on a flight from Siberia to Moscow. He was flown for treatment to Germany two days later,...
The main task of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry as part of the ongoing humanitarian operation in Nagorno-Karabakh is to restore a peaceful life there as soon as possible, head of the Russian emergency department Yevgeny Zinichev said during his working visit to Azerbaijan and Armenia, TASS reports citing a statement...
Yulia Galyamina, a Moscow city councilor and critic of the Kremlin, was given a a two-year suspended jail term on Wednesday after being found guilty of repeatedly violating rules for organizing opposition protests, Reuters reports.
Galyamina, who took part in an opposition campaign against constitutional reforms this year that could...
Russian Foreign Minister Segei Lavrov has returned an 18th-century Orthodox Christian icon to Bosnia and Herzegovina embassy after reports said the religious artifact originated from rebel-held eastern Ukraine, The Moscow Times reports.
Lavrov received the 300-year-old icon as a gift from Milorad Dodik, the Serb chair of Bosnia’s three-man presidency,...
Russian State Duma adopted a resolution Wednesday, calling on European lawmakers to condemn violations of the freedom of speech by the Latvian authorities and act against censorship in political struggle, TASS reported.
"The State Duma deputies urge the lawmakers of European states to condemn the Latvian Republic’s blatant violations of...
The Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) has approved the third reading of the bill regulating the activity of foreign agents developed by Russian parliamentary commissions to avoid foreign interference in Russian affairs, TASS reported.
Non-registered public groups involved in political activity and receiving foreign funding will be considered...
Russia’s lower house of parliament voted on Wednesday to pass legislation allowing authorities to block or restrict websites like YouTube if they “discriminate” against Russian media on their sites.
The authors of the legislation cited complaints from Russian media outlets RT and the RIA news agency about what they described...
The Russian police have drawn up an administrative offense protocol on activist Lyubov Sobol, a close ally and lawyer for opposition figure Alexey Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, for non-compliance with police order, Sobol's lawyer Vladimir Voronin said on Tuesday, Sputnik reports.
"They drew up a protocol against her about committing an...
