Putin hits back as Nato warns Moscow against attacking Ukraine
Russia would pay a high price for any new military aggression against Ukraine, NATO and the United States warned on Tuesday as the Western military...
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U.S. says ‘all options’ on the table over Russian troop build-up near Ukraine
By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis All options are on the table in how to respond to Russia’s ‘large and unusual’ troop build-up near Ukraine’s...
Death toll in Russian mine tragedy jumps past 50
A gas leak in a Siberian coal mine killed at least 52 people on Thursday, Russian news agencies said, including six rescuers who were sent down...
Russian jeweller Sokolov plans US IPO as revenues double
Russian jeweller Sokolov is planning a dual listing in New York and Moscow in 2023, its co-owner told Reuters, betting on strong revenue growth and...
Russian anti-satellite missile test endangers space station crew
An anti-satellite missile test Russia conducted on Monday generated a debris field in low-Earth orbit that endangered the International Space Station and will pose a...
Putin offers help to resolve crisis at Belarus and EU border
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was ready to help resolve a migrant crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, RIA news agency...
Russia’s Sberbank, enhancing AI offering, unveils second supercomputer
A second supercomputer and artificial intelligence (AI) upgrades form part of Sberbank’s enhanced offerings of digital services such as cloud computing and virtual assistant software,...
Kremlin says Lukashenko did not consult it on threat to cut Russian gas supplies
The Kremlin said on Friday that Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko had not consulted Moscow before raising the possibility of cutting natural gas flows to Europe,...
Russia and NATO weigh in as crisis mounts on Belarus-Poland border
The European Union accused Belarus on Wednesday of mounting a “hybrid attack” by pushing migrants across the border into Poland, paving the way for widened...
Russia wants forests, nuclear and hydro treated as green at COP26
Russia will press for its forests, nuclear plants and hydro-electric power to be recognised as green projects at the COP26 climate summit, its environment minister...
Moscow embarks on sweeping lockdown as Covid-19 deaths surge, vaccine campaign to be relaunched
The Russian capital brought in its strictest lockdown measures since June 2020 on Thursday as hospitals confront a rising wave of coronavirus cases that has...
Russia’s melting permafrost: homes and infrastructure under threat
By Maxim Shemetov The old airport in the Siberian settlement of Churapcha has been unusable for years, its runway transformed into a swampy field...
Russia says Putin won’t fly to Glasgow, in blow for climate talks
Russia delivered a blow to hopes of a breakthrough international deal on climate change when the Kremlin said on Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin would...
Moscow imposes new Covid curbs as daily deaths break record
Moscow’s mayor announced four months of stay-home restrictions for unvaccinated over-60s on Tuesday and the Russian government proposed a week-long workplace shutdown as the national death...
Russian space movie director says moon or Mars could be next
Russian film director Klim Shipenko said on Tuesday he was up for making a movie on the moon or even Mars after returning from 12...
Russia scrambles fighter jet to escort U.S. military plane
A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet has been scrambled to escort a U.S. B-1B strategic bomber over the Sea of Japan, TASS news agency reported on...
Russia’s daily death toll at record high as jab program stalls
Russia reported a record 1,002 deaths from coronavirus on Saturday, the first time the daily number has passed the 1,000-mark since the start of the...
Russia seeing record gas demand but still ready to boost EU supplies, Novak says
Russian gas consumption is running at a record high but Moscow is still ready to increase supplies to Europe should it receive such requests, Deputy...
Putin says Russia will supply more gas if Europe asks
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia was ready to provide more gas to Europe if requested, emphatically rejecting the suggestion that Moscow was...
Greenpeace protests against France’s uranium exports to Russia
Greenpeace activists protested outside the headquarters of one of France’s state-owned nuclear companies on Tuesday, calling for the country to stop all exporting and plans...