Germany has convicted two of its citizens on charges of violating the European Union’s arms embargo with Russia, the DPA news agency said Friday, as reported by The Moscow Times.
German investigators said the two defendants sold equipment for missile production to a Russian entrepreneur seven times between 2016-2018, bypassing...
Russia’s state-run Sputnik news organization will shut down its British operations five years after opening a bureau in Scotland, the news agency described as a Kremlin propaganda tool announced Friday, The Moscow Times reports.
Sputnik began broadcasting from its Edinburgh studio in August 2016, the same year that U.S. intelligence agencies accused...
The Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, enacted a measure on Wednesday that places a temporary prohibition on leaders and members of groups designated as extremist or terrorist in Russia, as well as persons associated with such groups, from being elected.
At the Federation Council meeting, 146 senators voted...
FORGO has produced a study on the 2021 gubernatorial elections, led by Konstantin Kostin, ex-head of the president's domestic policy department and main consultant to United Russia (ER) in the current elections.
Experts do not anticipate or forecast that campaigns will be conducted in accordance with the referendum scenario...
One of the great mysteries in US/UK analysis of Russia is the apparently almost universally accepted belief that the implosion of Putin's system would somehow gift Moscow 'back' to the West, resetting the clock to the 1990s, Russia Today reported.
The general consensus seems to be that Russians are secretly...
Norway said on Wednesday it had expelled a Russian diplomat on suspicion of espionage, drawing a rebuke from Russia’s embassy, which said the accusation was groundless.
Norway’s decision followed the recent arrest in Oslo of a Norwegian citizen suspected of illegally handing information to the diplomat, whom police believe to...
The question of deploying Russian military facilities in Belarus is not on the agenda, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Wednesday, TASS reported.
"This question is not on the agenda," he said when asked about the possibility of creating a Russian military base in Belarus. About the...
Russia reiterated on Tuesday it was open to clearing up what happened to President Vladimir Putin’s top opponent Alexei Navalny, who Germany and other western governments say was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, Reuters reported.
Kremlin spokesman said everyone would be happy if Navalny recovered, and he was free...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday discussed possible medical cooperation, including on the development of COVID-19 vaccines, the Kremlin said in a statement, Reuters reported.
The Kremlin did not give more detail on the nature of the potential cooperation that it said was discussed...
The European Union on Monday agreed to move ahead with sanctions against Russian officials over the nerve agent poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, further complicating already fraught ties with Moscow, The Moscow Times reported.
Foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed to sanctions proposals made last week by France and...
