Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that there are preliminary verification procedures on the poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny, but a criminal investigation would require substantive materials, Sputnik reported.
"As for the high-profile cases, the poisoning of a well-known figure. The checks are ongoing. We just cannot launch a...
An alleged suicide bomber has attacked a security service building in the southern Russian republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, injuring at least six, Sputnik, and authorities reported Friday.
Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee (NAC) said the unidentified bomber detonated himself while authorities attempted to detain him in the village of Uchkeken some 1,500...
Russia's MiG-31 intercepted U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane over the Bering Sea, the national defense control center said Friday, Sputnik reported.
According to the center, MiG-31 escorted the U.S. plane until it was far enough away from the Russian border.
Earlier in October, MiG-31 and Su-35 escorted two Rockwell B-1 Lancer bombers.
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Moscow will retaliate against the declaration of two Russian diplomats persona non grata in the Netherlands, the Russian Embassy in The Hague said, as reported by Sputnik.
The Russian Embassy has confirmed receipt of a note from the Dutch Foreign Ministry declaring two employees of the Russian diplomatic mission personae...
The leaders of Ukraine and Lithuania have agreed "to support Belarusian civil society." According to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky promised to join the EU’s package of sanctions against Belarusian officials, TASS reports citing Izvestia.
However, despite its assurances, Kiev has changed its mind at the last...
Russian lawmakers have approved new restrictions on protests, prompting criticism from the opposition that they violate Russians’ constitutional rights, The Moscow Times reported.
Deputies in Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved a pair of bills Wednesday that ban foreign funding for protest organizers as well as rallies...
President Vladimir Putin's support among young voters has roughly halved in the past year, according to independent survey results released Thursday, The Moscow Times reports.
If 36% of voters aged 18-24 said they would cast their ballots for Putin in 2019, only 20% expressed the same intention in November 2020,...
A steady stream of videos depicting shocking atrocities by Azerbaijani soldiers against Armenian civilians and prisoners of war has emerged on social media, The Moscow Times reported.
The videos, shot by soldiers and distributed on various Telegram news channels, depict a wide variety of torture, humiliations and mutilations of corpses....
The Russian Navy last participated in joint drills with NATO back in 2011, when the Bold Monarch exercise was held off the coast of southern Spain, Sputnik reported.
The vessels of the Russian Navy will hold their first joint drill in 10 years joint with NATO nations, including the United...
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed that Russian and German leaders Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel in a recent phone conversation touched on the subject of blogger Alexey Navalny, which, as the spokesman revealed, did not top the agenda, TASS reported.
"In our statement we pointed out those conversation subjects that...
