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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

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Russian artist fills Moscow museum with colourful latex sculptures

The latex sculptures and dresses were made by Russian artist Sasha Frolova, who argues they represent extreme femininity, not overt sexuality.

17/09/2020

Russia

Novichok-tinged bottle found in Navalny's room, his colleagues say

Supporters of the Russian opposition leader, who is being treated in a Berlin hospital, say they found the item in his hotel room shortly after he collapsed

17/09/2020

Russia

'Venus is a Russian planet,' Russian space agency director says

Russia's space agency has announced an independent national effort to explore Earth's twin after news there could be signs of life in the Venus' clouds.

15/09/2020

People

The women keeping a Cossack tradition alive

These shawls have been made by Russia’s Cossack women for centuries, but its traditional production is under threat from mass, machine-produced garments

14/09/2020

Russia

Russia elections: Navalny allies claim symbolic wins in regional polls

Allies of the poisoned opposition leader claim wins in Siberia as independent monitors condemned a reported "stream" of voting irregularities.

14/09/2020

Russia

Russians vote in local elections in key test for ruling party

Before being poisoned, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was urging Russians to vote tactically by casting their ballot for candidates best placed to defeat the ruling United Russia party.

13/09/2020

Russia

Putin apologises to Serbian leader over ministry spokeswoman's post

Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, posted a picture of Vucic's meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House last week with a picture of Sharon Stone's legs from the Basic Instinct movie underneath.

11/09/2020

Russia

Lukashenko looks to "elder brother" Putin for support

"Even cornered, Lukashenko does not look very much like a puppet, he is too unpredictable. This is a big difficulty for Moscow," says Andrei Kolesnikov of the Moscow Carnegie Center.

11/09/2020

Russia

Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre reopens after six month coronvirus lockdown

The theatre kicked off its 245th season to a mask-wearing half-empty auditorium with a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Don Carlo”.

07/09/2020

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The 2020 WorldSkills Russia National Competition will be the largest ever thanks to distance tech

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06/09/2020

Russia

Russia's COVID-19 vaccine: Trial results 'encouraging but small'

A peer review of trials of the Sputnik V vaccine published in The Lancet reports promising results, but adds that more work is needed.

04/09/2020

World

Moscow says it has not seen evidence Navalny poisoned with Novichok

A Kremlin spokesperson says Moscow hasn't received any evidence from Germany that Russian opposition activist, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.

04/09/2020

Russia

Could Navalny attack be a response to changes in Russian politics?

Dr. Samuel Greene is Director of the Russia Institute at King's College London.

03/09/2020

Europe Decoded

Explained: Novichok nerve agent attacks

What are the chemical weapons at the centre of another attack blamed on the Kremlin, in the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny?

02/09/2020

Russia

Volunteers build path to site of cosmonaut landing in Russian forest

The trail, deep in the remote Perm region of Russia, will take visitors to the site where 55 years ago two cosmonauts crash-landed after their spacecraft malfunctioned.

01/09/2020

Russia

Coronavirus cases in Russia pass the one million mark

Russia has now had more than one million confirmed cases of coronavirus since the start of the outbreak, the fourth-highest total in the world.

01/09/2020

Russia

Doctors say improvement in symptoms of Putin critic Alexei Navalny

On Friday, the Berlin hospital where Navalny is being treated said there was "some improvement" in his symptoms.

28/08/2020

Russia

Russia's COVID-19 vaccine: Muscovites urged to take part in trial

Russia became the first country in the world to give a government go-ahead for a COVID-19 vaccine on August 11.

27/08/2020

Russia

Pressure mounts on Russia to investigate Navalny's suspected poisoning

“The poisoning of Alexey [sic] Navalny shocked the world,” UK PM Boris Johnson said in a tweet. “The perpetrators must be held accountable & the UK will join international efforts to ensure justice is done.”

26/08/2020

Russia

Navalny: Kremlin rejects allegations over suspect poisoning

In a statement released on Monday, the team of doctors at the Charité hospital in Berlin said they had found “cholinesterase inhibitors” in his system, a broad range of substances that are found in several drugs, but also pesticides and nerve agents.

24/08/2020

Russia

'Poison is part of Putin's policy,' says Alexei Navalny associate

Moscow municipal deputy and associate of Alexei Navalny, Konstantin Jankauskas, tells Euronews he refutes the claim that no poison was found in the opposition politician's blood.

21/08/2020