North Korea will not take part in the Summer Olympics in Tokyo this year in order to protect its athletes from the coronavirus infection, TASS reported citing South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
The decision was made at the March meeting of the North's Olympic Committee, the report said.
According to the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law letting him run for the president of Russia again. The law was uploaded to the official Internet-portal of legal information on Monday, Tass informed.
A number of provisions of the law was developed on the basis of amendments to the Constitution. One...
Hierarchs from the Russian Orthodox Church will visit Washington, DC later this year to take part in celebrations dedicated to the 50-year anniversary of granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), cleric of the Moscow Patriarchal Parishes in the United States Abbot Nikodim (Balyasnikov) told Sputnik.
"In...
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...
A court in Russian-controlled Crimea has sentenced a woman to 12 years in jail for state treason on behalf of Ukraine at a trial that was held behind closed doors, Reuters reported citing court statements.
The woman, identified by Russia as citizen D. and of pension age, was found guilty...
Australia has imposed sanctions against four Russian companies and one individual linked to the Crimean Bridge’s construction, TASS reported citing the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
"Australia has imposed targeted financial sanctions and travel bans against a Russian individual and four Russian companies connected to the construction and...
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...
Russia should toughen the punishment for those who insult the country’s president, the chairman of the State Duma’s international affairs committee, Leonid Slutsky, has said, TASS reported.
"We should toughen the punishment for those who insult the president," he said in an interview on the Solovyev Live YouTube channel on...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated Friday that the Belarusian authorities will not go easy of the radical opposition, which already crosses the red line, TASS reported.
"Horrible miscreants - I told you that they will rock us in various ways. We have been registered these directions, where they already cross...
Moscow expects that London will let common sense prevail in terms of Russia-UK relations, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing, as reported by TASS.
"The British authorities’ baseless move to paint Russia as an enemy in their doctrine does cause us deep concern. We hope for...
