Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on criminal responsibility of up to five years of incarceration for gross violations of the foreign agents bill by individuals, media workers, as well as by members of unregistered political unions, TASS reported. The document was published on Wednesday on the...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday slammed a statement from Christa Wirthumer-Hoche, the chairwoman of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) management board, who compared the prospect of Austria's early approval of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine to "Russian roulette," calling it "at least inappropriate."
Wirthumer-Hoche told the ORF broadcaster on...
Three Russian tycoons and the Rosneft oil giant have filed libel and data protection lawsuits in Britain against the publisher of journalist Catherine Belton’s acclaimed 2020 book “Putin’s People,” the Financial Times has reported.
The billionaires — Mikhail Fridman, his longtime business partner Peter Aven and real estate tycoon Shalva...
Russia said Saturday it would provide "necessary" assistance to Yerevan in its conflict with Azerbaijan if fighting reached Armenian territory after its ally requested help, The Moscow Times reported.
Earlier Saturday Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan formally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to begin "urgent" consultations on security assistance in its...
In a turnaround for the books, for once it was Russian President Vladimir Putin who was warning the West not to interfere in the internal politics of another country, during a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the fraught situation in Belarus on August 18, bne Intellinews...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was likely poisoned before he headed to an airport in Siberia and fell violently ill on a flight last month, not at the airport itself, independent news outlets and his team reported Thursday, The Moscow Times reported.
Germany, where the Russian opposition leader is now being treated, said...
The poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny “constitutes a threat to international peace and security,” Britain, France, Germany, Estonia and Belgium wrote in a letter to the United Nations Security Council, seen by Reuters on Thursday.
“We call on the Russian Federation to disclose, urgently, fully and in a transparent...
Russia has eliminated all reserves of warfare agents, including the nerve agent Novichok, in accordance with the established rules, the director of the foreign intelligence service SVR, Sergei Naryshkin told the media on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"They were eliminated in accordance with OPCW procedures and rules, which was properly documented....
Several hundred people in major cities of Russia’s Far East joined unauthorized protests in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny, with some scuffle and detentions taking place.
Sputnik’s correspondents learned from local authorities that around 500 protesters took to the streets in Vladivostok and around 250 in Khabarovsk. No...
Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said on Sunday it continues to work in a routine mode and reports about its CEO Dmitry Rogozin’s resignation are mere rumors and idle speculations.
"We are working routinely. The next launch is scheduled for April 9. No time for idle speculations and rumors," a...
