On the night of January 14, Twitter for a while suspended the account of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, citing a hacking attack from U.S. territory as the reason, TASS reports citing Ivestia. News about the account’s suspension came amid reports of the death of 23 people in Norway,...
Russian law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and took her in for questioning early on Friday after raiding her home, Reuters reports.
There was no immediate comment from the police.
Supporters of Navalny said the police action appeared to be...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged fellow members of a post-Soviet military bloc to support Armenia’s prime minister as he grapples with domestic pressure over his agreement to a Moscow-brokered peace deal with Azerbaijan, The Moscow Times reported.
Nikol Pashinyan has faced a wave of outrage at home since the Nov. 9 peace deal ended...
Bulgarian prosecutors said on Friday they had charged six Bulgarians, including senior officials from the defense ministry and military intelligence, with spying for Russia, Reuters reported.
The Russian embassy in Sofia said in a comment on its website it expected that until a court ruled on the case that all...
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...
Moscow on Thursday expressed regret at Bulgaria’s decision to declare two Russian diplomats ‘persona non grata’ and promised details on retaliatory measures at a later date, the foreign ministry said in a statement, Reuters reported.
Bulgaria on Wednesday said it had expelled two Russian diplomats who prosecutors suspect were involved...
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Thursday the detention of a Russian citizen in the city of Sevastopol on suspicion of leaking information about the activities of the Black Sea Fleet to Ukraine, Sputnik News reports.
"We have detained a Russian citizen in Sevastopol who purposefully collected and...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has written to US President-elect Joe Biden to wish him a happy new year, and expressed confidence that they would soon work together to build improved relations “in the spirit of equality”, RT reported.
Putin's congratulations are part of a series of personalized letters he has...
A Turkish military vehicle was hit by a blast on Monday during a joint Russian-Turkish patrol in northwest Syria’s Idlib region, the RIA news agency cited Russia’s defence ministry as saying.
No Russian soldiers were hurt in the incident, it said, Reuters reported.
Turkish security officials later said there had been...
Russian journalists Semyon Pegov, Anton Starkov, Dmitry Lasenko and Vladislav Zizdok, who were released after detention in Belarus, have left capital city Minsk and will be escorted by Russian diplomats to the Russian border, Daily Storm Editor-in-Chief Alena Sivkova told TASS on Tuesday.
"They have left Minsk. As far as I...
