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Russia tells Google to stop promoting Moscow protests on YouTube

Russia tells Google to stop promoting Moscow protests on YouTube

12/08/2019

Russia

Russia honours 'national heroes' killed in mysterious rocket blast

Russia honours 'national heroes' killed in mysterious rocket blast

11/08/2019

Russia

What protests? Putin rides with Night Wolves bikers in Crimea

As massive anti-government protests took place in Moscow, Vladimir Putin rode a motorcycle with the Night Wolves bikers in annexed Crimea.

10/08/2019

Russia

Watch: Huge opposition rally in Moscow

Russians vowed to protest in favour of candidates being allowed to run in elections.

10/08/2019

Russia

After 20 years in power, is Putin's grip weakening?

Friday marks Vladimir Putin's 20-year anniversary as Kremlin chief.

10/08/2019

Russia

Explosions rock Russian arms depot for second time this week

An explosion rocked an ammunition plant for the second time this week, injuring at least nine, according to national media reports.

09/08/2019

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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

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

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

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

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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Best flights and fails of Russian Red Bull Flugtag

Participants of Red Bull "flight day" competition took their chances on Sunday, July 28th to entertain themselves and the spectators gathered at a Moscow canal with colourful costumes and quirky attempts to make their machines fly.

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

Kremlin critic Navalny files 'poisoning complaint', says lawyer

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from a Moscow hospital on Monday and returned to prison but on Thursday his lawyer revealed a complaint had been filed saying he was poisoned.

28/07/2019

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

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Putin explores sunk Soviet submarine in Bond-style dive

Russian President Vladimir Putin dived to the bottom of the Gulf of Finland aboard a submersible to explore a Soviet submarine which was sunk during World War Two.

27/07/2019

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Hundreds of people arrested at Moscow free elections protest

Hundreds of people were arrested as protesters gathered in Moscow on Saturday to demand free and fair elections.

27/07/2019

Russia

Watch: Protesters call for free elections at Moscow demonstration

Euronews correspondent Galina Polonskaya takes us to the heart of a demonstration in Moscow today calling for free elections.

27/07/2019