Russia detained at least 4,600 people at protests against the war in Ukraine on Sunday, 1,700 of them in Moscow. Protesters used social media to accuse the police of using excessive force to make the arrests, including shots of detainees beaten bloody with police batons.
The United States announced Monday it is expelling 12 individuals from Russia’s U.N. delegation in New York, accusing them of being “intelligence operatives.”
French ballet master Laurent Hilaire has resigned from his position as director of the Stanislavski Theatre company in Moscow over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he told AFP on Sunday.
Multiple reports published Thursday documented anti-war protests in over 50 cities throughout Russia that night, following violent crackdowns in response to strongman Vladimir Putin’s military assault of neighboring Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov extended an invitation to the country to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, but on the condition that he not discuss the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine that Russia denies, despite widespread evidence, it has a hand in.
Russian state media reported on Tuesday that dozens of Russian schools have deployed advanced biometric security systems, including facial and silhouette recognition technology, to prevent people “wanted by the authorities or potentially dangerous” from entering school grounds.
Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s pick as Comptroller of the Currency, previously authored a thesis on Marxism, the only copy of which has reportedly been destroyed by Moscow State University.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order on Wednesday to declare the week of October 30 as “non-working,” so workers can stay home and slow the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) revealed in its weekly Chinese coronavirus report on Tuesday that the world had experienced a four-percent drop in cases, a trend contradicted by case rises and new restrictions in China and Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov demanded “effective financial humanitarian support” from the international community for the brutal Taliban regime in remarks on Wednesday.
A 37-year-old performer was killed on-stage by falling scenery during a Moscow opera this weekend, Russian media reports said.
Russia has invited the Taliban to attend an October 20 meeting in Moscow alongside representatives from China, India, Iran, and Pakistan to discuss the geopolitical situation in Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Thursday.
Poland´s prime minister on Friday expressed support for the army troops and the border guards protecting the frontier with Belarus.
U.S. intelligence reports that Russia is an ongoing threat to the U.S., but John Kerry will talk about climate change in Moscow nonetheless.
The Kremlin on Friday blamed Russians’ alleged nihilistic attitudes for Moscow’s surging Chinese coronavirus caseload, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.
New Delhi agreed on Tuesday to produce “additional” Russian military equipment in India during a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi.
Ukrainian media on Wednesday accused Russia of escalating violence in the Donbass region and continuing to move large amounts of military hardware to the Ukrainian border using highways and railroads.
A viral video shows a Golden Retriever grab a microphone out of a reporter’s hand recently while she was live on camera, the Khaleej Times reported Sunday.
Facial recognition technology in the Moscow Metro has aided in the arrest of more than 900 people over the past six months, the Metro press service told Russian state media outlet Tass on Tuesday.
India’s foreign secretary will visit Moscow for two days starting Wednesday as part of New Delhi’s efforts to re-establish close relations with Russia, its traditional ally.
Russian police detained over 1,000 people Tuesday after thousands of protesters took to the streets across Russia to denounce the prison sentence of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny announced that day.
The promotion of unauthorized rallies in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in recent days has been “unacceptable” and the work of “certain provocateurs,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Tuesday that, following successful cooperation with U.S. authorities, they had recently seized large quantities of cocaine and broken up an international drug-smuggling ring.
Russian authorities admitted on Monday that the number of fatalities from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is three times higher than previously reported, according to the government-run statistics agency Rosstat.
The Kremlin is planning a mass rollout of Russia’s domestically produced Chinese coronavirus vaccine with incoculations of teachers and medics likely to start next week, President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Wednesday.
Russia laments the rise of so-called “Russiaphobia” in the current U.S. presidential election, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced Friday, in response to questions about Moscow in Thursday’s presidential debate.
Authorities in Russia are recruiting rare dogs they claim can smell individuals infected with the Chinese coronavirus, The Moscow Times revealed in a report Monday.
Authorities in Russia seized the apartment and froze the bank accounts of dissident Alexei Navalny’s apartment days after his release from a German hospital after doctors believe he was poisoned with a Russian chemical agent, his spokeswoman revealed on Thursday.
The defense ministers of India and China met for diplomatic talks on Friday in Moscow amid a recently escalated border dispute between the two countries in the Western Himalayas.
Security forces in Belarus said they arrested 32 Russian “mercenaries” near the capital city of Minsk on Wednesday for allegedly trying to disrupt the nation’s August 9 presidential elections, Voice of America (VOA) reported Thursday.
Former Vice President Joe Biden was the “architect” of the Obama administration’s support for the development of a Russian technology initiative known as Skolkovo, explained John Solomon.
About 500 people gathered in Moscow on Wednesday night to protest constitutional reforms passed this month allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to remain in power through 2036, the Moscow Times reported.
Indian and Chinese forces marched together alongside Russian soldiers in Moscow’s Victory Day Parade on Wednesday, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.
Russia held its 75th annual Victory Day parade on Wednesday, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, which Russia refers to as the “Great Patriotic War.”
The Russian capital of Moscow emerged from strict lockdown measures on Tuesday, largely relaxing the rules on their mobility despite the high number of cases of the Chinese coronavirus still prevalent across the city.
A female police lieutenant colonel has become the latest Russian official to mysteriously fall from a window amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, local media reported Monday.
MOSCOW (AP) — An alligator that many people believe once belonged to Adolf Hitler has died in the Moscow Zoo.
Over 60 percent of deaths linked to the Chinese coronavirus in Moscow are not being recorded as such and therefore are not part of the city’s official death toll, local health officials revealed on Wednesday.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced on Thursday that lockdown measures in the Russian capital will be extended until at least May 31st, warning that the real number of Chinese coronavirus cases is likely three times that of the official figures.
Four U.S. Navy ships and a British Royal Navy frigate entered the Barents Sea, north of Russia, to conduct Arctic security operations on May 4, the Pentagon confirmed Monday.
