Russia

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Discover Moscow with a spring in your step

In partnership with Discover Moscow

With hundreds of parks and gardens, Moscow is a delight in springtime. The scent of lilacs is everywhere and the city offers a wide variety of entertainment for every type of traveler.

14/06/2021

Russia

New restrictions in Moscow as COVID-19 cases rise

“It is impossible not to react to such a situation,” Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.

12/06/2021

The Cube

Russia fines Facebook & Telegram for failing to remove banned content

A Moscow court has ordered Facebook and the messaging app Telegram to pay heavy fines for failing to remove banned content.

10/06/2021

Russia

Russia bus crash: At least six people killed at bus stop in Lesnoy

At least six people have been killed and five others injured in a bus crash in Russia.

10/06/2021

Russia

'We'll continue fighting corruption': Navalny NGO defiant despite ban

A Moscow court on Wednesday night outlawed the organisations founded by Navalny by labelling them extremist,

09/06/2021

Russia

Alexei Navalny's foundation expected to be outlawed by Russian court

The designation would bar any close Navalny ally from running for public office.

09/06/2021

Russia

Russia complains to UEFA as Ukraine PM backs 'political' football kit

The Russian sports federation said Ukraine's Euro 2020 kit went against UEFA guidelines, while Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiyy has come out in support of the design.

08/06/2021

Focus

Football for Friendship: eWorld Championship final wraps online season

In partnership with Gazprom

The children's football tournament has also had to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic.

07/06/2021

Sport

EURO 2020: This is your quick guide to Russia

Russia reached the semi-finals of UEFA Euro 2008. Could they go one further in 2021?

07/06/2021

Russia

Russia criticises Ukraine's EURO 2020 kit for featuring Crimea

Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 but Kyiv considers the move to have been illegal. The peninsula is regarded as occupied Ukrainian territory by the majority of governments worldwide.

07/06/2021

Russia

Russian opposition figure leaves country for Ukraine

A well-known Russian opposition politician who was held in police custody for two days last week in a criminal investigation that he has left the country for Ukraine.

06/06/2021

Russia

U.S. risks going down same path as Soviet Union, warns Putin

Putin also criticised European, U.S. criticism of police crackdown on protesters in Russia and Belarus as hypocritical.

05/06/2021

Russia

First stage of Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is complete, says Putin

The controversial project aims to deliver Russian gas to Germany.

04/06/2021

Business

Vladimir Putin set to address St Petersburg business forum

Vladimir Putin is set to talk about the country's attractiveness to foreign investors.

04/06/2021

Russia

Russian opposition activist sent to jail amid crackdown

a court ordered Andrei Pivovarov, the head of the Open Russia movement that has just disbanded itself, to be held for two months pending an investigation, rejecting the defence’s appeal against his arrest.

02/06/2021

Russia

Russian authorities ramp up pressure on opposition ahead of elections

Andrei Pivovarov, the head of the Open Russia movement that dissolved itself last week, was pulled off a plane at St. Petersburg's airport late Monday and was to be taken to Krasnodar in southern Russia.

01/06/2021

Russia

Kremlin critic Navalny urges court to halt 'torture' checks in prison

“I just want them to stop coming to me and waking me up at nighttime,” jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny told a judge on Monday.

31/05/2021

Russia

Russia to form 20 new military units in west to counter NATO

Russia to form 20 new military units in west to counter NATO

31/05/2021

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Kremlin regiment hosts changing-of-the-guard ceremony

Russia's presidential regiment, a prestigious regiment responsible for keeping watch over the Kremlin in Moscow, hosts a changing of the guard ceremony. The traditional display resumed this year after a year's hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

29/05/2021

Russia

Russia brands 3 German NGOs 'undesirable'

The German Foreign Ministry has criticised the move, saying that "nothing about their work can warrant or justify such a serious step."

27/05/2021

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Female aerobatic pilot dazzles in Moscow

One of Russia's most decorated female aerobatic pilots took to the skies on Saturday during an air show in Moscow

23/05/2021

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Homages to world cultures created in sand

International travel may still be restricted for many due to the coronavirus pandemic, but residents of St. Petersburg can get a flavour of world cultures in artworks built from sand. The theme of this year's St. Petersburg Sand Sculpture festival is a world without borders

22/05/2021

Russia

At least 10 workers die after accident at Russian sewage plant

At least 10 people have died while cleaning sewers near the Russian city of Taganrog after inhaling toxic fumes, local authorities said.

21/05/2021

Russia

Putin warns Russia's enemies will have 'teeth knocked out'

Vladimir Putin was speaking at a government meeting Thursday when he made the strong comment.

21/05/2021

Russia

Man sentenced in Russia for preparing to commit school shooting

Russia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for preparing to massacre students, one week after nine people were killed at a school shooting in Kazan.

19/05/2021

Russia

Lavrov, Blinken set for showdown over Arctic, Ukraine at summit

The U.S. Secretary of State and Russia's foreign minister will meet ahead of a proposed summit between President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin.

19/05/2021