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Russia's Putin attends biggest post-Soviet war games in Siberia

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (September 13) arrived at Tsugol firing range in the country's Siberia Zabaikalsky region to observe large military drills.

13/09/2018

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Show of force by Russia military on exercise

Three hundred thousand troops are involved in the joint China and Russia drills close to the Chinese border

12/09/2018

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President Putin offers to sign a peace treaty by the end of this year with Japan

The Russian President made the suggestion at a conference stage on Wednesday. It's to formally end World War Two hostilities between their countries. But Abe, did not give his response

12/09/2018

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‘I’ll beat you to a pulp’: Putin's ex-head of security tells Navalny

"Nobody has ever kicked your butt properly so that you’d feel it in your liver but now you came to the right person," Viktor Zolotov, the head of Russia's National Guard and Putin's ex-head of security, threatened the opposition leader.

11/09/2018

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Putin and Xi treat themselves with pancakes, vodka and caviar

President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping demonstrated their cooking skills on Tuesday (September 11) after their talks in Russia's Far Easten city of Vladivostok.

11/09/2018

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Watch: Putin squirms as voting machine rejects his ballot

Is this the trickiest an election has ever been for Russia's president?

10/09/2018

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Russian parliamentary elections tarnished by unprecedented pension reform outcry

As Russia votes in this year's parliamentary and regional elections on September 9, the imminent victory of Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party might be tarnished by nation's outrage over highly unpopular pension reform.

09/09/2018

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Moscow mayor and residents vote for city head

Polls show President Vladimir Putin's former chief-of-staff will comfortably be re-elected, but public anger over planned increases to the nationwide pension age means many voters may stay away.

09/09/2018

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Domino's Russia 'free pizza for life' tattoo campaign ends early

Customers were offered 100 pizzas a year for 100 years if they got a permanent tattoo of the brand's logo.

08/09/2018

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What is Russia's secretive GRU intelligence agency?

The UK government has claimed two GRU officers carried out the Salisbury Novichok attack — different from the KGB, what do we know about Russia's most secretive intelligence agency?

07/09/2018

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Grozny: Nine dimensions of the post-war city explored by photographs

Three photographers invite us to explore the dimensions of post-war Grozny

07/09/2018

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'No one in Russia believes this story' Russia security expert tells Eu

Russian security expert Aleksey Podberezkin tells Euronews that no one in Russia believes that Moscow was involved in the poisoning of former agent Sergei Skripal.

05/09/2018

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Russian TV launches weekly show hailing Putin

Vladimir Putin's "love of children" and "great physique" were some of the topics discussed in a new Russian state-television show entirely dedicated to the president's image.

03/09/2018

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Plane skids off runway, leaves 18 injured at Sochi airport

A Sochi-bound plane skidded off the runway and caught fire in Russia's Black Sea resort city. All passengers were evacuated from the aircraft.

01/09/2018

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Putin softens pension reforms

Russia's President Putin has softened his pension reforms after protests from unions who claim many people will not live long enough to see retirement

29/08/2018

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Russia to hold biggest military exercises since Cold War

They'll involve 300,000 troops, 1,000 military aircraft, two of Russia's naval fleets, and all its airborne units.

28/08/2018

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Watch: Putin enjoys the great outdoors as he hikes in Siberia

Russian President Vladimir Putin gets back to nature in the Siberian hills on his summer holiday

28/08/2018

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Watch: Orchestra players perform on water

The Karelian State Philharmonic Orchestra performed on-board a boat at an abandoned marble quarry.

27/08/2018

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Russian objectors remember Prague invasion

A small group of Russians remembered the demonstration they held in Moscow's Red Square 50 years ago to protest their country's invasion of Czechoslovakia

26/08/2018

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Red Square music and dance spectacular

Military bands from all over the world performed in Moscow's Red Square on Friday night as part of the annual Spasskaya Tower festival

26/08/2018

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained in Moscow

A spokeswoman for Russia's opposition leader has said that Alexei Navalny is being held at a police station.

25/08/2018

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Watch: Russian vintage military tank topples at parade

The Soviet tank T-34, which dates back to World War II, capsized when aiming to mount a transport truck.

24/08/2018

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Watch: Artist creates cameras made of wood

This Russian artist blends his passion for photography and woodwork to develop cameras with shells made of driftwood, pebbles and shells.

23/08/2018

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Glamping with a difference in Moscow

Glamping has become hugely popular in Russia in recent years but it's not exactly glamping as the rest of Europe knows it.

22/08/2018

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Russia is 'looking for a nuclear-powered missile that went missing'

Russia is launching an operation to recover a nuclear-armed cruise missile that came down in the Barents Sea in 2017, according to CNBC intelligence sources.

22/08/2018

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Passenger films moment plane’s engine catches fire after takeoff

Footage of passengers reacting as a plane’s engine bursts into flames, forcing it to make a U-turn back to the airport, has emerged on social media.

22/08/2018