Moscow mayor urges more home-working as Russia’s new COVID cases hit 3-month high
The mayor of Moscow urged businesses on Friday to get more people to work from home as Russia’s daily tally of new coronavirus cases hit...
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Kremlin critic Navalny’s bank accounts frozen, apartment seized-spokeswoman
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s bank accounts were frozen and his Moscow apartment seized under a lawsuit while he was recovering from a suspected poisoning...
Kremlin critic Navalny posts photo of himself walking
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was seen walking down the stairs in a photo posted on his Instagram feed on Saturday, five days after a Berlin hospital...
Navalny team says Novichok was found on water bottle in hotel room
The nerve agent used to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was detected on an empty water bottle from his hotel room in the Siberian city...
Russian excess deaths outstrip Covid toll by more than 3 to 1
The number of excess deaths in Russia between May and July was more than three times higher than the official coronavirus toll, recent government data show, a...
Germany says French, Swedish labs confirm Navalny’s Novichok poisoning
The German government said on Monday two more laboratories have independently confirmed that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-style nerve agent Novichok...
Navalny’s condition improving, police guard stepped up – Der Spiegel
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has made further progress in his recovery after what Germany said was poisoning with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, and is able...
Navalny has come out of coma, Berlin hospital says (Update)
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin’s Charite hospital said on Monday. The hospital, which has been treating Navalny since...
Results of Russia’s vaccine produced antibody response
Russia‘s “Sputnik-V” COVID-19 vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in early-stage trials, according to results published on Friday by The Lancet medical journal...
Russian court rejects complaint over law agency’s handling of Navalny case
A Russian court said on Friday it had rejected a complaint filed by allies of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accusing a top law enforcement body...
Facebook says Russian influence campaign targeted left-wing voters in US, UK
A Russian influence operation posed as an independent news outlet to target left-wing voters in the United States and Britain, including by recruiting freelance journalists...
Putin and Lukashenko plan to meet in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko have agreed to meet in Moscow in coming weeks, the Kremlin said on Sunday. The two...
‘Putin, have some tea’: Russian city holds eighth anti-Kremlin protest
Thousands of people took to the streets on Saturday in Russia’s far eastern city of Khabarovsk to protest against President Vladimir Putin’s handling of a...
Russia releases secret footage of 1961 ‘Tsar Bomba’ hydrogen blast
Russia has released previously classified footage of the world’s largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 years ago. The...
Russian prosecutors say no need for criminal investigation in Navalny affair (Update)
Russian prosecutors said on Thursday they saw no need for a criminal investigation into the sudden illness of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who his supporters...
Kremlin says does not want Navalny illness to damage ties with West
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it hoped opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s illness would not damage Russia’s ties with the West and that it was keen...
Kremlin defies calls to probe Navalny illness, says poisoning not yet certain
The Kremlin said on Tuesday it saw no need for now to investigate the circumstances leading up to opposition politician Alexei Navalny‘s grave illness and that...
Putin critic Navalny under guard after likely poisoning, says Germany (Update)
Germany said on Monday it had placed Alexei Navalny under guard in hospital after determining that the long-time critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin had most likely...
Kremlin critic Navalny is evacuated to Germany for medical treatment (Update 3)
Gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was evacuated from the Siberian city of Omsk and brought to Germany for medical treatment on Saturday, flown out...
Russia allows gravely ill Kremlin critic Navalny to be airlifted to Germany (Update 2)
Russian doctors said on Friday gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny could be flown to Germany to receive medical attention after the politician’s allies accused...
