#Russia

The EU and the US are set to endorse a joint declaration during their summit on June 15 in Brussels, for a “renewed transatlantic partnership” that will also work for sustainable ...

Russia on Tuesday shipped a generic version of the remdesivir antiviral drug called Remdeform to India as part of its humanitarian aid contributions to the South Asian country which is ...

Despite the uncertainty concerning the arrival of tourists this summer, the deputy ministry of tourism remains optimistic that this year will turn out to be better than the last one ...

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “naked, thieving king” on Thursday, looking gaunt but defiant in a courtroom video link from prison, his first public ...

Russian authorities rapidly painted over a large mural of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Wednesday after it appeared overnight on a building in central St Petersburg. The mural in ...

Russia accused a Ukrainian diplomat on Saturday of trying to obtain classified information and ordered him to leave the country by April 22, prompting a like-for-like response from Ukraine as border ...

Staff at the Russian prison holding hunger-striking Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny are threatening to force feed him, his allies said on Monday, warning he had lost 15 kg since he arrived ...

We’re safe from Iran’s nuclear weapons which never existed anyway, but what about the others? First, the good news. The United States and Iran had talks in Vienna ...

With outright surprise we took notice of the historical overview of Russian-Cypriot relations “Russia is not the horse to bet on” (Sunday Mail, April 4). The underlying message of the article ...

Our relations with the Soviet Union and Russia have rarely proved beneficial Two days after Cyprus’ independence, the new state was formally recognised by the Soviet Union on 18 August 1960. The ...

A Russian court fined Twitter a total of 8.9 million roubles ($116,800) on Friday over accusations that the service had failed to delete banned content. Moscow said last month it had slowed ...

President Nicos Anastasiades and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin held a meeting Wednesday in Athens during which Cyprus issue and bilateral relations were discussed. Anastasiades referred to the importance of ...

How the Russian law enforcement agencies are undermining successful entrepreneurs and anti-corruption activists By Nicholas Anderson In February 2019, Michael Calvey, an American investor in the Russian market, was arrested along ...

A British newspaper has reported that Russia is understood to have engaged in “electronic warfare” against RAF aircraft taking off from the Akrotiri British base in Cyprus. The Times quoted ...

Russia will block Twitter in one month unless the U.S. social media giant complies with a demand to remove banned content, Russian news agencies cited a senior regulatory official ...

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 could be produced in Europe for the first time after a commercial deal to produce it in Italy was signed by the Moscow-based ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved legislation on Wednesday beefing up fines for offences committed during street protests after thousands were detained at unsanctioned rallies in support of Kremlin critic Alexei ...

Russian athletes will compete under the acronym ROC at the Tokyo Olympics this year, as part of sanctions for several doping scandals, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Friday. ...

Reversing an earlier decision of a lower court, the Supreme Court on Friday approved the extradition of a Russian citizen to Russia where he is wanted for alleged serious offences, ...

Vigorous efforts are needed for Russia and the United States to reach a deal on extending the New START nuclear arms control pact before it expires next month, the Kremlin ...

Police detained over 1,000 people across Russia on Saturday and used force to break up rallies around the country as tens of thousands of protesters demanded the release of Kremlin critic ...

Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic who was jailed at the weekend, on Tuesday released a video in which he and his allies alleged that an opulent ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday brought together the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for the first time since a war last year over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, an effort to ...

Russian companies have been approaching the government trying to promote their cloud seeding systems to increase the chances of rain, it emerged on Friday. This piece of information was given ...