Russia

No Comment

Giant castle burned at end-of-winter festival in Russia

The wooden effigy was a symbol of the coronavirus and stood 24 metres tall before being burned.

14/03/2021

No Comment

Russian police detain dozens of opposition deputies at forum in Moscow

Russian police arrested around 200 opposition politicians and municipal deputies at a Moscow conference.

13/03/2021

Russia

Russian police detain participants at opposition forum in Moscow

The detained included leading opposition figures, like Yulia Galyamina.

13/03/2021

Travel News

This vintage steam train in Russia takes passengers back in time

The Ruskeala Express is pulled by a Soviet-era locomotive and fitted out in a vintage style

11/03/2021

Russia

Russia 'slows' Twitter over failure to remove banned content

Russia's media watchdog accuses the social network of failing to remove content related to drug use, suicide and child pornography. Twitter is also used widely by supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

10/03/2021

Russia

Russia wants apology after EMA official warns against Sputnik V jab

Russia has questioned the neutrality of the European Medicines Agency after a senior official urged EU member states not to rollout the Sputnik V vaccine yet.

09/03/2021

No Comment

Russian communists remember Stalin on the anniversary of his death

Russian communists on Friday remembered former leader Joseph Stalin as they marked the 68th anniversary of his death.

05/03/2021

Destinations

Why Moscow is the perfect city for a winter break

In partnership with Discover Moscow

Moscow in winter has a special charm. There are plenty of sights and activities to explore, from skating in Europe's largest ice rink to discovering the palaces and parks of times gone by.

05/03/2021

Europe Decoded

Facebook takes down hundreds of fake Russian Instagram accounts

Facebook has taken down more than 500 accounts aiming to drown out the online conversation about pro-Navalny demonstrations.

04/03/2021

Russia

Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, turns 90 in quarantine

Gorbachev, who is widely credited with ending the Cold War, was very popular in the West, but a much more polarising figure within Russia.

02/03/2021

Europe Decoded

Twitter 'maliciously violating' Russia's content laws, says watchdog

Russia's communications regulator says Twitter has failed to remove more than 2,800 illegal pieces of content since 2017.

01/03/2021

No Comment

Russians mark sixth anniversary of opposition figure Nemtsov's killing

Nemtsov was an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his killing on February 27, 2015, was seen as a blow to forces opposing the country's longtime leader.

27/02/2021

Russia

Boris Nemtsov: Thousands pay tribute on sixth anniversary of murder

Thousands of Russians, as well as some western diplomats, have marked the sixth anniversary of the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.

27/02/2021

Russia

Boeing 777 flight makes unscheduled landing in Moscow

Russian media say that a Boeing 777 plane made an emergency landing in Moscow in the early hours of Friday after the pilot reported a problem with the engine.

26/02/2021

Russia

Diplomat uses hand-pushed rail trolley to get from N Korea to Russia

A group of Russian diplomats and their families have returned from North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley due to COVID-19 restrictions.

26/02/2021

Russia

Russian opposition leader Navalny sent to prison outside Moscow

Navalny’s incarceration has led to international calls for his immediate release, including from Europe’s top human rights court.

26/02/2021

Destinations

Island hopping Russia: Sakhalin, Kuril Islands and Kamchatka Peninsula

Russia's Far East: an epic, paradoxical wilderness of domineering mountains, active volcanoes and endless forests. This is island hopping, but not as you know it.

24/02/2021

Russia

Lukashenko 'grateful' for Russian aid as Belarus leader meets Putin

"The money hasn't been thrown to the wind," Lukashenko told Putin amid reports he had come to Russia seeking another loan for Belarus.

22/02/2021

Russia

Kremlin critic Navalny loses appeal and is found guilty of defamation

The opposition leader, who returned to Russia in January after being treated for Novichok poisoning in Germany, appeared before a Moscow court in two separate cases on Saturday.

20/02/2021

Russia

Russia rejects European rights court's order to free Alexei Navalny

The European Court of Human Rights had demanded that Russia free Navalny immediately, warning that failing to do so would mark a breach of the European human rights convention.

17/02/2021

Russia

Russia arrests 19 suspected militants for planning terror attacks

Russia's FSB said the suspects were militants of a banned radical Islamist group.

17/02/2021

No Comment

Heavy snowfall leaves parts of Russia blanketed in snow

The average temperature in Moscow and the region is about -13 degrees Celsius but by the end of the week, the temperature could drop to -30 degrees Celsius.

15/02/2021

Russia

Russia: Valentine's Day flashlight protests demand Navalny's release

The protest, dubbed "Love is stronger than fear," was called by Navalny's allies for Valentine's Day in solidarity with people detained in recent opposition protests.

14/02/2021

Russia

Soldiers who fought in Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign are buried

The remains of over a hundred French and Russian soldiers who died during Napoleon's disastrous 1812 campaign were finally buried on Saturday.

13/02/2021

Russia

Russian FM blames rift with EU on its 2004 Eastern Europe enlargement

'If you want peace, prepare for war', says Lavrov as the EU considers sanctions over conflicts in Eastern Europe and opposition leader Alexei Navalny's detention

12/02/2021

Russia

Russian opposition leader Navalny back in court on slander charges

This is a separate charge from a 2014 fraud and money-laundering embezzlement conviction, for which Navalny was sentenced to jail earlier last week.

12/02/2021