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...
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...
Ukraine plans to produce its own vaccine against COVID-19, Izvestia TV channel reports. The Ukrainian Ministry of Health promised to start producing the drug next year, with installation of the first production line being constructed in the city of Kharkov. In 2020, the head of the political council of the Opposition...
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...
With the premiere of the short film "Out," which featured a homosexual main character, Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor issued a warning Walt Disney Co. against showing content it believed was damaging to minors in Russia. In a letter to Disney, Roskomnadzor stated that it was against Russian legislation to provide...
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...
On Russia's Space Forces Day, the Defense Ministry announced that 12 new laser optical systems for monitoring outer space would be operational by 2025, TASS reports. "Within the context of executing the program for refining and developing the Russian system of monitoring outer space, Russia's Space Forces are pressing forward...
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...
  The Russian Football Union's (RFU) Executive Committee has slammed the national team's performance in the 2020 UEFA Euro Cup this summer, calling it unsatisfactory, RFU President Alexander Dyukov stated on Thursday. "The team's effort has been disappointing," Dyukov told journalists after a meeting of the RFU Executive Committee earlier in...
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...