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Russia is a fake democracy, claims activist, ahead of planned protests

Protesters are on the streets in Moscow because they want to oust Russia's president Vladimir Putin, it's been claimed.

09/08/2019

Russia

How heavy-handed are Russian police compared to elsewhere in Europe?

Vladimir Putin, on the back of criticism of Russian police's response to protests in Moscow, says law enforcement is even tougher in the West. Is he right?

09/08/2019

Georgia

Georgia marks Russia war anniversary as tensions simmer

Georgia has been marking 11 years since its 2008 conflict with Russia over separatist regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

09/08/2019

Russia

Syria, Iran, and Venezuela take part in Russian tank 'biathlon'

Russia hosted 22 countries as part of the Army Games 2019.

08/08/2019

Russia

Five dead in explosion at military testing site in northern Russia

Five Rosatom employees were killed and three injured in an explosion at a military testing site in northern Russia on Thursday, RIA news agency cited the state nuclear company as saying.

08/08/2019

Russia

Take a 2,000 km 'space flight' over the Siberian wildfires

European agency Copernicus Emergency Management System has provided Euronews with an animation of the ongoing wildfires in Russia's Sakha Republic.

07/08/2019

Russia

'Chernobyl on ice': Activists warn over Russian floating nuclear plant

Environmental NGO Greenpeace is concerned that Russia's new floating nuclear plant could turn into a 'Chernobyl on ice".

06/08/2019

Ukraine

Estonia says it won't recognise Russian passports offered in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year promised fast-tracked citizenship to anyone living in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.

06/08/2019

Russia

'Low chance' Siberia wildfires will be brought under control: expert

Siberia's wildfires are only getting bigger despite Russian airforce intervention, Greenpeace Russia warned this week.

06/08/2019

Russia

Spectacular explosions after fire at Russian arms depot in Siberia

Russia said a fire triggered the explosions at a storage facility for gunpowder charges near the city of Achinsk in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region.

06/08/2019

Russia

Watch: Hundreds detained in Moscow protest for fair election

Hundreds of people were arrested in Moscow on Saturday as police clamped down on a rally calling for free elections for a second weekend running.

02/08/2019

Syria

UN to probe attacks on humanitarian sites in northwestern Syria

It follows pleas by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who said airstrikes by the Syrian government and its ally Russia have hit schools, hospitals and markets, killing scores of civilians in Idlib province, the country's last rebel stronghold.

02/08/2019

USA

US withdraws from key nuclear treaty with Russia

The collapse of the 1987 treaty banning intermediate-range missiles has some fearing the world could enter into a new arms race.

02/08/2019

Russia

Watch: Panda pair celebrate birthdays at Moscow Zoo

The bears are eating a diet of 99% bamboo but also enjoy apples, carrots and special pancakes made out of cereal.

31/07/2019

China

'World's first transnational cable car' to connect Russia and China

What is claimed to be the world's first transnational cable car is set to connect China and Russia across the Amur River.

31/07/2019

Russia

Euroviews. The chilling inaction on domestic violence in Russia is endangering women’s lives ǀ View

Russia has no domestic violence law and does not treat domestic violence as a stand-alone criminal offense. In a dramatic step back in 2017, certain forms of domestic violence were actually decriminalised.

29/07/2019

Russia

Watch: Homemade aircrafts fall with style at the Flugtag competition

The contest started in Vienna in 1991 and now plays out annually in more than 100 locations

29/07/2019

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Mass baptisms performed in Russia to celebrate Christianity

Mass baptism rituals took place across Russia on Sunday to recall the introduction of Christianity as a state religion in ancient Russia more than a thousand years ago.

29/07/2019

Russia

Watch: Protesters detained while demanding fair elections in Moscow

Euronews' Galina Polonskaya reports from Moscow on the detentions that took place Saturday night during an unauthorised opposition protest.

28/07/2019

Russia

Police arrest hundreds of protesters in Moscow

The authorities had banned the protest which was against the exclusion of opposition candidates in local elections but thousands ignored it and defiantly took to the streets.

27/07/2019