NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will file a request for Russian citizenship in the near future and is currently gathering documents for that purpose, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told Sputnik on Tuesday.
"He is gathering documents for receiving Russian citizenship, and we will file a request for naturalization," Kucherena said.
The lawyer...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Belarus was facing unprecedented meddling by external forces and he called on opposing political forces to try to resolve their differences through talks, Reuters reported.
The country, a close Russian ally, has been rocked by mass protests since an Aug. 9 presidential...
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not make decisions to counter the opposition, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"These positions are not taken into account," he said, answering a corresponding question.
Peskov was asked to comment on the statement made by Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny in...
Russia has the right to expect that the United States will start reckoning with legitimate interests of other foreign players under the new administration, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Kazakhstan's international news agency Kazinform, Sputnik reported.
"As President Vladimir Putin has said: 'We analyse it...
Russian authorities are probing opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s comments during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic for inciting extremism, news agencies quoted law enforcement sources as saying Tuesday.
According to The Moscow Times, investigators are reportedly examining whether Navalny’s April 27 interview with the liberal Ekho Moskvy radio station...
Turkey and Russia have concluded an agreement to set up a joint center for monitoring ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"Negotiations have been completed on the technical details concerning the basics and principles of operation of a joint Turkish-Russian center. An agreement has...
Russia is ready for any developments in the world after the U.S. presidential outcome is summed up, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with international news agency Kazinform, as reported by TASS.
"We presume that it is early to discuss the consequences of the U.S. election for...
Moldova has not discussed the potential withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Transnistria with Moscow in advance, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, as reported by Sputnik.
Moldovan President-Elect Maia Sandu said earlier in the day that Russian peacekeepers, who guard weapons storage units in Transnistria, should leave, the weapons themselves...
A Russian court ruled on Monday that former journalist Ivan Safronov be kept in jail until March pending trial on charges of treason, Reuters reported citing RIA news agency.
Safronov, who left journalism and began working at Russia’s space agency in May, was detained by security agents outside his flat...
The killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is a terror attack aimed at provoking Iran and Russia condemns this crime, Chairman of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky said on Sunday, TASS reported.
"The murder of Iranian physicist Fakhrizadeh is a terrorist attack aimed at new provocation...
