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'It's torture': Moscow's elderly struggling to cope during lockdown

“Old people have to stay between four walls most of the time anyway, so not letting us go out at all is torture,” said pensioner Nina.

21/04/2020

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Easter Mass: All churches in Moscow are closed to the public

Russian Patriarch Kirill celebrates the Orthodox Easter Mass at an empty Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow amid the coronavirus pandemic. In Sofia, people attend the Easter mass despite the virus fears.

19/04/2020

Russia

Moscow shutdown extended as mayor warns: 'things are getting worse'

Sergey Sobyanin says that the number of people in Russia's capital admitted to hospital with COVID-19 has risen from 500 to 1,300 per day.

11/04/2020

Russia

Does Russia have really coronavirus under control?

Vladimir Putin says timely measures helped avoid a coronavirus epidemic. Is he right?

23/03/2020

Russia

Vladimir Putin pushes on with April vote on 'reset' of term limits

The constitutional reform could keep the Russian president in power until 2036.

17/03/2020

Russia

Euroviews. A word of advice to Western leaders: talk to Putin but don’t let him gaslight you ǀ View

Men like Emmanuel Macron see the last few years of tension as an anomaly, and would like to establish mutually beneficial relations with Vladimir Putin. But if they are not careful, they will end up like all those before them, retreating from Moscow disappointed and disillusioned.

17/03/2020

Russia

Lenin was once a Londoner who hated the weather and loved the bus

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov spent just over a year at a tiny flat near Kings Cross

14/03/2020

Russia

Vladimir Putin signs law that could keep him in power until 2036

The law still needs to be approved by the country's Constitutional Court and in a referendum set for April 22.

10/03/2020

Russia

Euroviews. Already vulnerable, LGBTIQ people are being used as a pawn in Putin’s latest power play ǀ View

Vladimir Putin has vowed that same-sex marriage will not become a reality as long as he is president, and swiftly included a corresponding provision in proposed constitutional changes due to be voted on in a second reading by the State Duma this week, which will be put to a referendum next month.

09/03/2020

Russia

Face to face: Erdogan and Putin meet for talks on conflict in Syria

It was the Russian and Turkish presidents' first meeting since at least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike near Idlib, sparking a NATO crisis.

05/03/2020

Russia

Putin seeks ban on gay marriage

The measure would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

03/03/2020

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Opposition urges 'Russia without Putin' in rally for Boris Nemtsov

He was gunned down and killed five years ago this week. On Saturday, a rally was held to remember Boris Nemtsov

29/02/2020

Russia

Watch again: Rally to remember slayed Putin critic Boris Nemtsov

Boris Nemtsov was gunned down near the Kremlin on February 27, 2015. On Saturday, people are gathering in Moscow to remember him.

28/02/2020

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On a frozen Siberian lake, festival-goers mark the Lunar New Year

Dancers perform the Yokhor, a traditional circle dance.

25/02/2020

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On magnets, mugs and matryoshka dolls, Putin's face still sells

Russia's president, 20 years since he came to power, is still a lucrative business for some.

20/02/2020

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Sochi Winter Arts Festival breaks new boundaries

This year’s Sochi Winter Arts Festival featured a full program under the leadership of Russian violinist and conductor Yuri Bashmet as artistic director.

20/02/2020

Russia

Moscow bus drivers told to raise alarm if Chinese people are on board

It comes after Russia temporarily banned Chinese people from entering its territory earlier this week.

20/02/2020

Russia

Coronavirus: Russia bans Chinese nationals from entering country

Russia has taken a drastic step over the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

18/02/2020

Russia

Two injured in Moscow church knife attack

Two people were injured in a knife attack in a Moscow church on Sunday.

16/02/2020

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From Russian with love: Soldier's armoured proposal wins hearts

Lieutenant Denis Kazantsev led his long-term partner Alexandra Kopytova into the centre as she held her hands over her eyes

14/02/2020

Russia

Russian mother flees unsanitary quarantine hospital through window

A Russian woman who escaped her coronavirus quarantine by climbing out of a hospital window said conditions in the facility were unsanitary.

13/02/2020

Russia

Defendant kills himself in Moscow courtroom after prison sentence

Former Russian prison service official Viktor Sviridov shot himself dead in a courtroom after being given a three-year jail sentence for corruption.

12/02/2020

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Homemade sledge race brightens up Russian winter

The event - Sunny Sledge 2020 - was being staged for the fourth time, with 36 teams taking part in this year's contest.

10/02/2020

Russia

'We can't go out': Coronavirus evacuee describes life in quarantine

Inna Savintseva is a coronavirus evacuee. She was transferred to Siberia in the face of a risk of contamination and cannot leave her hospital room.

07/02/2020

Russia

Worker killed after stadium roof collapses in St Petersburg

The collapse happened during work to reconstruct the St Petersburg stadium

31/01/2020

Russia

Russia rescues 536 fishermen stranded on huge piece of floating ice

Local authorities say fishermen have ignored safety warning about the floating ice - known as ice floes - which leads to repeated incidents.

29/01/2020