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Russia accuses US Navy of violating territorial waters

The US Navy has denied wrongdoing and says Russia's statement is "false".

24/11/2020

Russia

Russia says its Sputnik V vaccine is 95% effective against COVID-19

Just in: Russia says trials have shown its Sputnik V vaccine is 95% effective against COVID-19

24/11/2020

Russia

Russia arrests police colonel over 2010 Moscow metro bombings

Russia said it had detained a police colonel from Dagestan on terrorism offences after accusing him of aiding a suicide bomber in a 2010 attack on the Moscow metro.

23/11/2020

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Vladivostok left draped in ice after freak storms

Freak ice storms following an abnormal weather phenomenon have left 150,000 people without water and electricity in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok and prompted a state of emergency.

23/11/2020

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Ice storms in Russia's far east prompts state of emergency

Freezing rain began pummelling Vladivostok overnight Thursday after a cyclone carrying hot air met an anticyclone carrying cold air.

20/11/2020

Russia

Duma backs bill protecting Putin and family from prosecution

The bill would mean presidents who were no longer in office and members of their family "cannot be brought to criminal or administrative responsibility, as well as detained, arrested, subjected to a search, interrogation, or body search."

18/11/2020

Russia

Russia alleges Navalny could have been poisoned on plane to Germany

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has suggested that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny could have been poisoned on the medical plane to Germany.

12/11/2020

Russia

Russian Foreign Minister says drones will be used to monitor truce

Russia and Turkey sign a deal on creating a joint centre for monitoring the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire.

12/11/2020

Russia

Putin 'waiting on official results' to congratulate US election winner

Putin was one of the first leaders to congratulate Trump on his victory in 2016.

09/11/2020

Russia

Russian authorities raid the offices of Putin critic Alexei Navalny

While Alexei Navalny remains in Germany recovering from a near-fatal poisoning in August, Russian officials search his offices in Moscow.

06/11/2020

Russia

US Election: Analysts say 'chaos' would be the best outcome for Russia

Relations between the US and Russia have steadily declined since Trump took office, and the country will not overwhelmingly express support for him as it did in 2016.

03/11/2020

Sport

Russia wants to keep sports fans in stadiums despite coronavirus

Russia has allowed thousands of people to attend sporting events in recent weeks including Champions League games and an F1 race.

29/10/2020

Russia

Edward Snowden granted permanent residency in Russia, his lawyer says

Snowden, a former contractor with the U.S. National Security Agency, has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the U.S..

23/10/2020

Russia

Navalny: Putin 'intervened' to allow critic's evacuation to Germany

The Russian president said he asked the country's Prosecutor General to immediately allow opposition figure Alexei Navalny to be moved to Germany for urgent treatment.

22/10/2020

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Moscow disinfects train stations amid rising COVID-19 cases

Russia has the fourth-highest virus caseload in the world with a total of 1.3 million registered infections, and more than 23,000 deaths.

15/10/2020

Russia

Russia: Suspect found dead after 3 people killed in bus stop shooting

Russian authorities say the suspect in Monday's fatal shootings in the Nizhny Novgorod Region has been found dead. Three people were killed and three others wounded when a gunman opened fire at a bus stop in central Russia.

13/10/2020

Green News

'Unusual but nice': The Russian house covered in discarded bottle tops

Creator Svetlana Kuzevanova started making murals with bottle caps after being inspired by her cross stitch-patterns.

11/10/2020

Green News

What's going on in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula?

Kamchatka residents have been documenting this unfolding environmental catastrophe in real-time on social media.

09/10/2020

Russia

Russia launches criminal investigation into unexplained sea pollution

Russia has launched a criminal investigation into unexplained sea pollution and the loss of sea life in the Kamchatka peninsula.

08/10/2020

Russia

Environmental activists demand answers about Russian marine pollution

Environmental activists demand answers for marine pollution on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Russia after several large sea animals washed ashore.

06/10/2020

Green News

This zero food waste cafe serves you soup in an edible bowl

An innovative way to minimise waste - but what exactly are they made of?

04/10/2020

Russia

Russian journalist sets herself on fire and dies after police search

Irina Slavina set herself on fire outside a regional police headquarters on Friday.

03/10/2020

Europe Decoded

Navalny poisoning: Decoding the Kremlin's information war | #TheCube

In this 30-minute special edition of #TheCube, we examine the clash of information between east and west, and why Alexei Navalny is such an enemy of the Kremlin.

02/10/2020

Russia

Russia given five months to fix 'deficient' doping response

World Athletics had previously said RusAF could be expelled from membership if it didn't compose an anti-doping plan.

26/09/2020

Russia

Russian bailiffs seize Alexei Navalny's assets, says spokeswoman

Navalny's flat and some of his bank accounts were frozen while he lay in a coma in Berlin, the Kremlin critic's spokeswoman said on Thursday.

24/09/2020

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23/09/2020