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Manafort to cooperate with Robert Mueller's probe of Russian election

Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy and will cooperate with Robert Muelle's investigation of Russian election meddling.

14/09/2018

Russia

Anti-Kremlin activist Pyotr Verzilov 'was definitely poisoned'

Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina tells Euronews anti-Kremlin activist Pyotr Verzilov was poisoned and is in a critical condition in hospital.

13/09/2018

World News

From serious to satire as web makes fun of Navalny fight threat

Web users have turned to humour after Vladimir Putin’s ex-head of security challenged opposition leader Alexei Navalny to a fight.

13/09/2018

Europe News

On board of a NATO plane during a military exercise

Western alliance practiced reaction to interference of hostile fighters

13/09/2018

Russia

Russian war games: What you need to know

For the past two days, the Russian military has been conducting the country's biggest drills in decades, as President Vladimir Putin seeks to send a message to the West but also to his own increasinly-dissatisfied electorate.

13/09/2018

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Russia's Putin attends biggest post-Soviet war games in Siberia

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (September 13) arrived at Tsugol firing range in the country's Siberia Zabaikalsky region to observe large military drills.

13/09/2018

United Kingdom

'We were in Salisbury for its cathedral', say Novichok attack suspects

UK government says interview contains 'blatant fabrications' and is 'offensive'.

13/09/2018

World News

Russia's huge military drills end

As Russia's huge military exercise comes to an end President Vladimir Putin says all his country wants in peace

13/09/2018

Russia

Show of force by Russia military on exercise

Three hundred thousand troops are involved in the joint China and Russia drills close to the Chinese border

12/09/2018

Russia

President Putin offers to sign a peace treaty by the end of this year with Japan

The Russian President made the suggestion at a conference stage on Wednesday. It's to formally end World War Two hostilities between their countries. But Abe, did not give his response

12/09/2018

Russia

‘I’ll beat you to a pulp’: Putin's ex-head of security tells Navalny

"Nobody has ever kicked your butt properly so that you’d feel it in your liver but now you came to the right person," Viktor Zolotov, the head of Russia's National Guard and Putin's ex-head of security, threatened the opposition leader.

11/09/2018

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Putin and Xi treat themselves with pancakes, vodka and caviar

President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping demonstrated their cooking skills on Tuesday (September 11) after their talks in Russia's Far Easten city of Vladivostok.

11/09/2018

World News

Russia holds biggest military drills since Soviet era

Russia holds biggest military drills since Soviet era

11/09/2018

Business

Beijing-Moscow cooperation

At the Eastern Economic Forum China calls on Russia to work together to oppose protectionism

11/09/2018

World

More than 800 people detained in nationwide protests in Russia

More than 800 people have been detained in nationwide protests in Russia, as thousands gathered to rally against a planned increase to the retirement age.

10/09/2018

Russia

Russian parliamentary elections tarnished by unprecedented pension reform outcry

As Russia votes in this year's parliamentary and regional elections on September 9, the imminent victory of Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party might be tarnished by nation's outrage over highly unpopular pension reform.

09/09/2018

Russia

Moscow mayor and residents vote for city head

Polls show President Vladimir Putin's former chief-of-staff will comfortably be re-elected, but public anger over planned increases to the nationwide pension age means many voters may stay away.

09/09/2018

United Kingdom

Britain vs Russia on Novichok attacks: who do you believe?

Russia says there are inconsistencies in the UK’s claim that Moscow was behind Novichok poisonings on English soil. Who's right?

07/09/2018

World

Two Russians charged in Skripal Novichok poison case

Two Russian nationals have been named and charged in the attempted murder of Yulia and Sergei Skripal, who were poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury earlier this year. British PM Theresa May says the men's actions were not 'a rogue operation.'

06/09/2018

Russia

'No one in Russia believes this story' Russia security expert tells Eu

Russian security expert Aleksey Podberezkin tells Euronews that no one in Russia believes that Moscow was involved in the poisoning of former agent Sergei Skripal.

05/09/2018