Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Wednesday it had thwarted “terror” attacks planned by Islamic State in the Moscow region, uncovering and breaking up a militant cell, the RIA news agency said.
Security officers detained one person and seized a home-made bomb, the FSB was quoted as saying, Reuters reports.
Law enforcement authorities carried out mass raids on the Jehovah’s Witnesses across Russia on Tuesday and made a number of arrests as part of a new criminal case against the group, the Investigative Committee said, as reported by Reuters.
The law enforcement agency said it had opened an investigation as...
A Russian peacekeeper has been wounded and an Azerbaijani soldier killed in a mine explosion in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday, The Moscow Times reported.
Four emergency workers from the unrecognized ethnic Armenian republic of Nagorno-Karabakh were also wounded in the region’s Tartar district,...
Russian courts on Monday fined two Pussy Riot activists for hanging rainbow flags on several government buildings last month to mark President Vladimir Putin's birthday, The Moscow Times reported.
On Oct. 7 — Putin's 68th birthday — members of the anti-Kremlin punk group draped the flags associated with LGBT pride...
Russia’s border guard service FSB will deploy reinforcements to the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin, TASS informed.
"In accordance with the decision made to maintain the border security of the Republic of Armenia and measures to maintain...
President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia and Turkey of seeking to promote anti-French sentiment in Africa by funding people who whip up resentment against France in the media, in an interview published Friday, The Moscow Times reported.
"We must not be naive on this subject: many of those who speak, who make videos,...
Russia has sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for trying to pass military secrets about Russia’s Northern Fleet to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday, Reuters reported.
The FSB said in a statement that a court in Bryansk, southwest of Moscow,...
Moscow is inspired by support from an absolute majority of UN member-states, who at the 75th UN General Assembly session voted for the Russia-initiated resolution on the struggle against Nazism, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary on Friday, TASS reported.
"The vast and invariable support for...
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict is about to become a bygone, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said in an address to the nation timed for the handover of the Agdam district to Baku, TASS reported.
"The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict is about to be left behind. International experts agree with this, too," Aliyev said, adding...
Russia could block YouTube and other major U.S. social media platforms for “censoring” content from Russian state media, according to draft legislation submitted to parliament Thursday, The Moscow Times reported.
The draft bill explains that the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Foreign Ministry would be able to identify foreign platforms...
