Russia’s Covid-19 deaths return to record daily highs
Russia on Thursday reported 820 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, matching an all-time high set on Aug. 26, and authorities warned that cases...
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Russian plane with six on board crashes near Khabarovsk
A Russian Antonov An-26 transport plane with six crew on board crashed near the city of Khabarovsk in Russian’s far east, the Interfax news agency...
Russia behind 2006 Litvinenko killing says ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Russia was responsible for the 2006 killing of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko who died an...
Eight killed in Russian university shooting, gunman ‘liquidated’ (Update 2)
A student opened fire at a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding several, law enforcement...
Russia’s ruling pro-Putin party wins majority after crackdown but loses some ground
Russia’s ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, retained its parliamentary majority after an election and a sweeping crackdown on its critics, despite...
Thousands march for LGBTQ+ rights in Ukraine despite some opposition
Thousands of people including soldiers and diplomats marched peacefully through the Ukrainian capital on Sunday in an annual gay pride parade despite some opposition to...
Pro-Putin party heads for Russian election win after Navalny clampdown
Russians vote on Sunday in the final stretch of a three-day parliamentary election that the ruling party is expected to win after a sweeping crackdown...
Navalny allies accuse Telegram of censorship in Russian election
Allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accused Telegram of censorship on Saturday after the popular messaging app followed Google and Apple in restricting access to their...
Russia’s Gazprom says Europe gas prices could set new records
Already high natural gas prices in Europe could scale new heights due to low gas storage levels, Alexei Miller, boss of Russian supplier Gazprom (GAZP.MM),...
Putin meets Assad, takes swipe at US and Turkish forces in Syria
President Vladimir Putin received Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Moscow for the first time since 2015 on Monday and criticised foreign forces that are in...
Russia completes Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline construction
Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Friday it had finished construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas subsea pipeline to Germany, completing Moscow’s project to...
Russia’s Yandex to test self-driving taxis in Moscow
Adventurous Muscovites may soon be able to travel around parts of Moscow in driverless taxis as Russian tech giant Yandex (YNDX.O) plans to start testing the autonomous...
Two killed, several hurt in gas blast in Russian apartment block
A gas explosion on Wednesday in a nine-storey block of flats in a city near the Russian capital killed two people and damaged apartments, a...
‘Resist’: Russian opposition candidates rally media
A dozen opposition candidates for Russia’s September parliamentary election met scores of journalists in Moscow on Saturday with a message of resistance against the Kremlin’s...
Russia to be affected the most by EU carbon border tax
The world’s first carbon border tax proposed by the European Union is likely to hit Russia the hardest but leave Chinese trade relatively unscathed, according...
Hungarian foreign minister confirms gas deal with Russia
Hungary has agreed with Russia on all the conditions for a new long-term gas supply deal to take effect from Oct. 1, Foreign Minister Peter...
Russia must split up Nord Stream 2
Russia will have to split up ownership of the nearly-completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, according to a German court order issued on Wednesday. In order...
Russia says Turkey could sign new S-400 missile contract soon
Russia and Turkey are close to signing a new contract to supply Ankara with additional S-400 air defence units in the near future, the Interfax...
Merkel: Russia cannot use Nord Stream 2 pipeline as a weapon
“Gas cannot be used as a weapon,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday after meeting Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian president, in Kyiv. “We are for...
Russia pledges retaliation after new US sanctions — Navalny, Nordstream 2
Moscow pledged retaliatory measures after a new set of sanctions imposed by the United States on a Russian ship and two companies involved in the...