Friday, March 29, 2024
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 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...
The United States needs to refrain from interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the YouTube channel Soloviev LIVE, TASS reported. "First, don’t interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries. Second, every state has the right to pursue its own domestic...
Russia’s first and only police corgi has announced his retirement from the force, ending the law enforcement career of one of Russia’s most compact officers, The Moscow Times reports. Officer Ryzhiy (“Ginger” in English), 9, worked with the Nizhny Novgorod transport police for seven and a half years, sniffing out...
Five deputy chief editors resigned from Vedomosti on Monday, after the newspaper’s parent company made Andrey Shmarov’s appointment as editor-in-chief permanent, Meduza reports. Dmitry Simakov, Boris Safronov, Filipp Strekin, Kirill Kharatyan, and Alexander Gubsky all stepped down in protest. Gubsky had worked at Vedomosti since it was founded in 1999....
Tehran called on Russia and China to resist a push by Washington to extend a U.N.-imposed arms embargo due to expire in October under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with six powers, Reuters writes. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has been taking a harder line with the United Nations to extend...
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 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...