Friday, March 29, 2024
Five former police officers were sentenced to long jail terms by a Moscow court on Friday for planting drugs on an investigative journalist, in what supporters termed a rare acknowledgement of wrongdoing by Russian law enforcement. The arrest of famed investigative journalist Ivan Golunov in June 2019 on fabricated drug...
More than $2 million worth of diamonds and jewels is discovered buried in a forest by Russian investigators, suspected to be a lost trove from a heist carried out by a Colombian fugitive during the 2018 soccer World Cup, Reuters reported. After the perpetrator, Edgar Alejandro Valero Valero, admitted to...
According to a spokesman for the regional branch of the Russian Interior Ministry, a knife-wielding student assaulted a teacher at Lyceum Number One in the town of Berezniki, in Russia's Perm District, TASS reports. According to the spokesman, a pupil assaulted a teacher at Berezniki's Lyceum Number One, with an object...
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...
The record streak of the "Avangard" striker Kirill Semyonov at KHL was interrupted at 291 matches, as informed by Bookmaker Ratings. Semyonov was not included in the teams' application form for the fourth match of the Gagarin Cup final series against CSKA. The player was injured in the previous...
A military parade to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War took place on Moscow’s Red Square on Sunday, TASS reported. The parade began with the march of the banner group of the Preobrazhesnky Regiment’s Honor Guard’s battalion carrying...
For the first time since the Soviet era, there are no elite Russian basketball players in the NBA. There have been thirteen since the 1990’s, providing a constants presence in the elite basketball competition, yet, over the last few years, no Russian players have participated in the NBA Draft. The most...
Russia’s coronavirus case tally rose by 11,359 in the past day to 4,246,079, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday. In relative terms the growth rate reached 0.27%. The lowest growth rates were registered in the Tuva Republic (0.04%) and the Magadan Region (0.06%). Moscow confirmed 1,737 COVID-19 cases over...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 22,851, bringing the total to 3,401,954, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told journalists on Sunday, TASS reported. For the first time since November 18 the number of new detected cases is below 23,000. According to...
Russia recorded 21,798 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Monday. The overall case tally has reached 1,796,132, TASS reported. The daily number of cases remained over 20,000 for the fourth day in a...