Friday, April 19, 2024
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...
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned officials to increase security and to do additional checks for possible Russian operatives appearing as political advisers working in U.S. politics for the upcoming November’s elections. According to The Associated Press, the report which was produced in February warned...
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...
Fast-growing Russian supermarket chain VkusVill plans to open a store in the Netherlands within weeks and later in France as it considers a future initial public offering (IPO) in New York, Reuters reported last week. The company’s founder Andrey Krivenko said that VkusVill, which on average opens two new stores in Russia...
A Russian artist unveiled four giant paintings of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in central Istanbul on Saturday, saying he wanted to show the good ties between Ankara and Moscow despite differences over Syria and other issues, Reuters reported. However shortly after Alexander Donskoy unveiled his “Putin is Russia?” project in...
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...
Il-76 military aircrafts have delivered several armored vehicles to the Khmeimim base in Syria in order to assist the units of the Russian military police tasked with patrolling the Syrian-Turkish border, the Russian Defense Ministry informed, TASS reported. "In the near future, the military equipment will head to the northern...
Eighty-nine people have been injured in an explosion in a plant manufacturing explosives in Russia, the country’s health ministry has said, according to Euronews. The blast took place Saturday at the Kristall state research institute in Dzerzhinsk, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow. An investigation is underway but the...