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Britain and the United States imposed sanctions on Friday on men they said were Russian intelligence operatives responsible for the poisoning one year ago of...
Russian TV channel ends talks with Google over YouTube block
Tsargrad TV, a news channel owned by a sanctioned Russian businessman, said it had abandoned talks with Google to have its YouTube account unblocked and...
Cave lion cub found in Siberian permafrost is 28,000 years old
Scientists have said that an astonishingly well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia’s permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may even still have traces of...
Russia tells BBC journalist to go home in row with Britain
Russia has told a BBC journalist working in Moscow to leave the country by the end of this month in retaliation for what it called...
Russia hits Navalny with new charge that could add to jail term
Russian authorities announced a new criminal charge against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday, the latest move in a crackdown ahead of September’s parliamentary election...
Germany arrests British man suspected of spying for Russia
German police have arrested a British man who worked at the British embassy in Berlin on suspicion of passing documents to the Russian intelligence service...
Russian flights return to Egypt’s resorts six years after crash
Russian flights landed in the Egyptian resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada for the first time in nearly six years on Monday after Moscow had...
Russia’s Abramovich denies buying Chelsea for Putin, court hears
– Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is not President Vladimir Putin’s “cashier” nor did he buy Chelsea FC as a vehicle to corrupt the West, his...
Kremlin: Biden is wrong to say that Russia only has nuclear weapons and oil
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s assessment of Russia as only having nuclear weapons and oil was wide of the mark and betrayed...
Kremlin critic Navalny’s website blocked by Russian regulator
Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s website, navalny.com, as well as 48 websites of people and organisations affiliated with him,...