Putin meets Syria’s Assad in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Kremlin, the president’s press service said on Thursday.
“I am very interested in your opinion on how the ...
Russia says US election upheaval shows schism in American society
Russia said on Wednesday that the upheaval surrounding the U.S. election, including an assassination attempt against Donald Trump and the exit of President Joe Biden from the race, showed ...
Russia considers diesel export ban amid rising domestic prices
The Russian government is considering a ban on exports of diesel due to rising domestic prices, the Kommersant daily reported on Wednesday, citing several unnamed sources.
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Moscovites who sign up to fight in Ukraine to receive 5 times the average nominal wage
Residents of Moscow who sign up to fight in Ukraine will receive a down payment of 1.9 million roubles ($21,777) from the city, taking their annual pay in their first service year ...
Kremlin pledges legal action over planned EU interest transfer
The Kremlin on Tuesday called a European Union plan to use interest earned on frozen Russian assets to fund military aid to Ukraine “theft” and said it would take legal ...
Russia weighs risk of embracing crypto for international payments
Russia should accelerate the creation of infrastructure for payments in cryptocurrencies but carefully weigh the associated risks, its money laundering watchdog said in a statement, ahead of a parliamentary vote ...
Russian troops mount pressure on Ukrainian logistics hub
Ukraine’s top commander said on Monday that Russian forces were staging relentless assaults to try to advance towards the town of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub in the east, and ...
EU unity tested
Orban’s Russian and Chinese visits infuriates the EU, Hungary describes them as peace missions
European Union foreign ministers will evaluate how to respond to trips by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Russia and China and his country’s positioning over the EU’s ...
Russia makes fifth drone attack on Kyiv in two weeks, Ukraine’s military says
Russia launched its fifth drone attack on Kyiv in two weeks with Ukraine’s air defence systems destroying all the air weapons before they reached the Ukrainian capital, Ukraine’s ...
Russian court jails US reporter Gershkovich for 16 years in spying case his employer calls a sham
A Russian court found U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage on Friday and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony in what his employer, the ...
Russia, Ukraine exchange 190 prisoners in third swap in weeks
Russia and Ukraine conducted a major exchange of prisoners on Wednesday, 190 in all,in their third such swap over the past seven weeks, following negotiations mediated by the United Arab ...
Russia’s Medvedev says Ukraine joining NATO would mean war
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the accession of Ukraine to NATO would be a declaration of war against Moscow and only “prudence” on behalf of the alliance could prevent ...
Arms race gathers pace as Russia and US plan to redeploy once-banned weapons
Four decades ago, the United States deployed cruise and Pershing II nuclear missiles in Europe to counter Soviet SS-20s – a move that stoked Cold War tensions but led within ...
Ukrainians struggle with scorching heat amid power crisis
On some evenings, Ukrainian mother Margaryta Zakharchuk wanders around her neighbourhood in the sweltering heat waiting for the electricity to come back on so she can take the lift to ...
Ukraine’s mobilisation campaign picks up despite faltering enthusiasm
Seeing the military patrol handing out call-up papers on the outskirts of Kyiv, one man slipped into a nearby store. Another refused to even stop for the officers. Others, however, ...
Yandex split nears completion as Russian traders finalise share exchange
Russian traders have finalised a share exchange for investors in Yandex, often dubbed Russia’s Google, one of the final steps needed to complete a more than $5 billion deal that ...
‘It’s a mistake,’ Zelenskiy says of Biden’s Putin mix up
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his U.S counterpart Joe Biden accidentally referring to him as Russian President Vladimir Putin was a mistake that could be forgotten about given all ...
Kremlin says Biden was disrespectful of Putin and whole world noticed his gaffes
The Kremlin said on Friday that the whole world had paid attention to Joe Biden’s verbal slips at a NATO summit and said the way the U.S. president ...
Russia tried to assassinate CEO of arms firm sending weapons to Ukraine, CNN reports
U.S. intelligence discovered earlier this year that Russia planned to assassinate the chief executive of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall RHMG.DE which has been producing artillery shells and military ...
Former president Medvedev says Moscow should seek ‘disappearance’ of Ukraine and NATO
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday denounced NATO’s summit promise to grant eventual membership to Ukraine and said Russia should work towards the “disappearance” of both Ukraine and ...
F-16s’ arrival not a silver bullet for Ukraine
The first batch of U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets are already being transferred to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands and will be flying over Ukrainian skies this summer, ...
Russia promises to discharge Indians ‘misled’ into joining its army
Russia has promised to discharge Indians who were falsely induced to join its army, an issue Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised at talks with President Vladimir Putin, an Indian official ...
Ukraine will stop Putin, Biden tells NATO in forceful speech
US President Joe Biden pledged to forcefully defend Ukraine against Russia’s invasionat the NATO summit in Washington on Tuesday, using the global stage to try to show allies at ...
UN assessment suggests Ukraine children’s hospital hit by Russian missile
A lethal strike on a children’s hospital in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was likely caused by a direct hit from a Russian missile, the head of the U.N. ...