Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed the head of the country’s tax office Mikhail Mishustin as Prime Minister to replace the outgoing Dmitry Medvedev late on Wednesday, state-run news agency TASS reported.
It was the last major political move in a dramatic news day for Russia, after Putin announced a major...
Lamine Diack, the disgraced former head of athletics’ governing body, goes on trial in Paris on Monday on charges of corruption and money laundering linked to a Russian doping scandal, Reuters reported.
Prosecutors allege he solicited 3.45 million euros ($3.89 million) from athletes suspected of doping to cover up the...
Russia marked 75 years since the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Saturday, but the coronavirus outbreak forced it to scale back celebrations seen as boosting support for President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported.
With coronavirus infections rising, Putin last month postponed the highlight of annual Victory...
Authorities reported Monday that at least six people were killed and others were wounded when a student opened fire on a Russian university campus, Moscow Times writes.
Students at Perm State University in Perm, some 1,300 kilometers east of Moscow, are seen leaping out of second-floor windows to escape the...
The Olympics in Tokyo have come to a close. The participants fought for the last 13 sets of medals on August 8, following which the organizers hosted the 2020 Games closing ceremony.
Russian competitors outperformed President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Stanislav Pozdnyakov's aim of 50-60 medals, bringing...
The "Search for Lost and Found Animals" service on the official portal of the Moscow Mayor and Moscow Government (mos.ru) is the first city centralized service in Russia for finding lost animals.
Those who have lost a pet can post an ad and inform about the missing animal via...
Russia’s Northern Fleet is tracking a group of U.S. and British naval vessels which entered the Barents Sea on Monday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
The U.S. Navy said earlier on Monday that four U.S. Navy ships and a Royal Navy...
Kiev’s line towards confrontation and whipping up tensions with Moscow remains unchanged, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday on occasion of Vladimir Zelensky’s first year of presidency, TASS reported.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, attempts continue to distort common history, glorify Nazism and desecrate memorials...
Russia remains committed to the ban on nuclear tests and continues to implement the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty despite the fact that the treaty has not come into force, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s press office said on Saturday commenting on the United States’ 2020 Adherence to and Compliance with Arms...
An international team of scientists has found that those with a special variant of the gene that regulates the functions of the immune system are twice as likely to get on mechanical ventilation when infected with COVID-19, Izvestia reported.
The co-authors of the study from Russia clarified that such people...
