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Dozens leap off bridge in Sochi annual base jump festival

Dozens of base jumping enthusiasts from different countries took part in an annual base jumping festival in Sochi, Russia.

16/10/2018

Russia

Russian town hires cat chief to attend to strays

The lucky lady who bagged the job was given a bicycle and a uniform complete with a bright green jacket, a black bow tie and a hat.

14/10/2018

World

Astronauts make emergency landing as engine fails on Soyuz rocket

Russian officials are investigating the cause of a booster problem that forced a Soyuz rocket capsule to make an emergency landing just after launch

12/10/2018

USA

Trump warns India after their purchase of Russian missile system

US President Donald Trump warns of possible sanctions after India purchases a Russian missile system.

11/10/2018

Russia

Russian footballers detained after beating government official

Two Russian premier league football players Kokorin and Mamaev were detained by Russian police after attacking a government official in a Moscow cafe

11/10/2018

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Passengers safe after plane overshoots runway in Siberia

Passengers safe after plane overshoots runway in Siberia

11/10/2018

World

Salisbury poisoning suspect was 'awarded top military honour by Putin'

Investigative webste Bellingcat has claimed that the second suspect in the Salisbury poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal is a Russian doctor who received a top military honour from President Vladimir Putin

10/10/2018

World

Second Skripal poisoning suspect was decorated as a hero by Putin in 2014: Bellingcat

Alexander Mishkin, the second man accused of poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, was decorated as a hero by Putin in 2014, said investigative group Bellingcat.

09/10/2018

World News

Euroviews. Will the Council of Europe become Putin’s trophy? | View

A vote by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) this week will decide whether Russia will be readmitted to Europe's biggest human rights organisation without sanctions and without fulfilling any of PACE's preconditions.

08/10/2018

Russia

Yevgeny Makarov’s case sheds light on ill-treatment in Russian prisons

Allegations of ill-treatment of prisoners in Russian prisons are not new but Yevgeny Makarov's torture case has brought them to limelight again.

05/10/2018

Russia

Could Russia's plan to shun the dollar boost its economy?

The government is preparing a bill to ‘de-dollarize’ the Russian economy in response to incoming US sanctions. Drawn-up using ideas from VTB bank head Andrei Kostin, the bill could be approved by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in just two weeks.

04/10/2018

Netherlands

US government charges seven Russian intelligence officers with hacking

US government charges seven Russian intelligence officers with hacking reports AP.

04/10/2018

World

UK Foreign Secretary calls out Russian cyberattacks in pointed statement

"We will expose the Russian intelligence service" - the message from British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt as Britain takes aim at Russia. The UK foreign office is blaming Russian intelligence services for six cyber-attacks in an aggressive statement that directly implicates Vladimir Putin.

04/10/2018

Business Series

UK blames Kremlin for ‘reckless’ cyber attacks

Britain accuses Russian military intelligence of an indiscriminate campaign of cyber attacks aimed at disrupting politics and everyday life in the West.

04/10/2018

Europe News

After Poland and Hungary... Romania

EU Commission and European Parliament warn Bucharest not to jettison rule-based democracy

03/10/2018

Belgium

US walks back threat to 'take out' Russian missiles

The US accuses Russia of violating a 1987 treaty banning both countries from developing medium-range warheads.

03/10/2018

Sport

Russian Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton wins

It's his eighth win of the season. His team mate Bottas is second. The gap between Hamilton and Vettel is 50 points

30/09/2018

Russia

Russian enthusiast showcases Soviet car collection

A former race-car mechanic has amassed hundreds of rust-bucket Soviet cars, symbols of a vibrant automobile industry that crashed with the fall of the Soviet Union.

28/09/2018

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Few sales after hundreds queue for new iPhones in Moscow

Hundreds of Russians braved the cold and rain to queue for days outside a Moscow phone store ahead of the release of the new Apple iPhones on Friday, but when the doors opened none stepped in to buy.

28/09/2018

World

Man charged in novichok poisoning named as Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga

One of the suspects in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury has been named as a highly-decorated officer in Russia’s military special forces by investigative website Bellingcat. The man previously named as Ruslan Boshirov is said to be in fact Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.

27/09/2018