Sunday, May 19, 2024
A school shooting in Kazan, Russia, has left 11 people dead, most of them students, as reported by The Moscow Times citing RIA Novosti. One of the victims in the shooting was a teacher and the other eight were students at Kazan's School No. 175, TASS reported. Telegram news channels posted...
Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in an amateur league of ice hockey scoring several goals in the game that took place for the first since the pandemic started, Reuters reports. Putin, who was inoculated against coronavirus more than a month ago, said earlier on Monday that he had his...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent Victory Day greetings to the leaders of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as to the people of Georgia and Ukraine, the Kremlin press service said in a statement on Saturday, TASS reported. "Russian President Vladimir Putin has...
Four German lawyers have filed a criminal complaint against Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, with the German Prosecutor General’s Office accusing him of crimes against humanity over his crackdown on protests, RT reported. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 10 Belarusians, some of whom fled to Germany because of alleged...
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...
Kyrgyzstan said a ceasefire with Tajikistan was holding on Sunday, as it accused citizens from its Central Asian neighbor of crimes during the pair's worst clashes at their contested border in decades, The Moscow Times reports. The Kyrgyz interior ministry said that casualties on its side had risen to over 160...
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Orthodox Christians and all Russian citizens who celebrate Easter, the Kremlin press service said on Sunday, TASS reports. "The holiday of Easter, embodying the triumph of life, goodness and justice, is of great moral importance. He awakens faith, hope, the desire to help others," Putin...
Russia’s financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring has put the Navalny Headquarters on the list of organizations involved in terrorist and extremist activities, as follows from information uploaded to the agency’s website, TASS informed. The organization was added to the corresponding list on April 30. The Moscow City Court on Thursday held a...
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained 16 supporters of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi youth gang dubbed M.K.U. in nine Russian cities, the FSB said in a statement, as reported by TASS. "The Federal Security Service and the Investigative Committee in Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Saratov, Tambov, Tyumen, Chita, Anapa, Pushchino (the Moscow...
Speaker of Russia’s State Duma (lower house of parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin has warned political parties about the danger of radicalism and recruiting radicals into their ranks, even in exchange for an increase in the number of votes during elections, TASS reports. "Radicalism in politics is destructive. This is the path...