Russia to be affected the most by EU carbon border tax
The world’s first carbon border tax proposed by the European Union is likely to hit Russia the hardest but leave Chinese trade relatively unscathed, according to a joint study ...
Hungarian foreign minister confirms gas deal with Russia
Hungary has agreed with Russia on all the conditions for a new long-term gas supply deal to take effect from Oct. 1, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on his Facebook page ...
Russia must split up Nord Stream 2
Russia will have to split up ownership of the nearly-completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, according to a German court order issued on Wednesday.
In order to comply, Nord Stream 2 must be ...
Russia says Turkey could sign new S-400 missile contract soon
Russia and Turkey are close to signing a new contract to supply Ankara with additional S-400 air defence units in the near future, the Interfax news agency cited the head ...
Merkel: Russia cannot use Nord Stream 2 pipeline as a weapon
“Gas cannot be used as a weapon,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday after meeting Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian president, in Kyiv. “We are for new sanctions if Russia uses ...
Russia pledges retaliation after new US sanctions — Navalny, Nordstream 2
Moscow pledged retaliatory measures after a new set of sanctions imposed by the United States on a Russian ship and two companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Russia’...
Merkel, Putin clash over Navalny on her last trip to Russia
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday used her final official visit to Russia to tell President Vladimir Putin to free Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, but the Kremlin leader rebuffed her, ...
UK, U.S. impose sanctions on Russian intelligence agents over Navalny poisoning
Britain and the United States imposed sanctions on Friday on men they said were Russian intelligence operatives responsible for the poisoning one year ago of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
The ...
Russian TV channel ends talks with Google over YouTube block
Tsargrad TV, a news channel owned by a sanctioned Russian businessman, said it had abandoned talks with Google to have its YouTube account unblocked and on Monday accused the U....
Cave lion cub found in Siberian permafrost is 28,000 years old
Scientists have said that an astonishingly well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia’s permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may even still have traces of its mother’s milk in ...
Russia tells BBC journalist to go home in row with Britain
Russia has told a BBC journalist working in Moscow to leave the country by the end of this month in retaliation for what it called London’s discrimination against Russian ...
Russia hits Navalny with new charge that could add to jail term
Russian authorities announced a new criminal charge against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday, the latest move in a crackdown ahead of September’s parliamentary election that could add as ...
Germany arrests British man suspected of spying for Russia
German police have arrested a British man who worked at the British embassy in Berlin on suspicion of passing documents to the Russian intelligence service in exchange for cash, prosecutors ...
Russian flights return to Egypt’s resorts six years after crash
Russian flights landed in the Egyptian resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada for the first time in nearly six years on Monday after Moscow had banned them following a deadly ...
Russia’s Abramovich denies buying Chelsea for Putin, court hears
– Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is not President Vladimir Putin’s “cashier” nor did he buy Chelsea FC as a vehicle to corrupt the West, his lawyer told England’s High ...
Kremlin: Biden is wrong to say that Russia only has nuclear weapons and oil
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s assessment of Russia as only having nuclear weapons and oil was wide of the mark and betrayed a ...
Kremlin critic Navalny’s website blocked by Russian regulator
Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s website, navalny.com, as well as 48 websites of people and organisations affiliated with him, Navalny’s team said ...
Putin inspects new Russian fighter jet unveiled at air show
President Vladimir Putin inspected a prototype of a new Sukhoi fifth-generation fighter jet on Tuesday that Russia unveiled at its annual MAKS air show with an eye on export markets.
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Russia says it successfully tested hypersonic missile praised by Putin
Russia said on Monday it had successfully tested a Tsirkon(Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile, a weapon President Vladimir Putin has touted as part of a new generation of missile systems ...
Engine failure forced Russian plane to make hard landing, investigators say
Russian investigators said on Saturday engine failure had caused a small passenger plane to make a forced landing in Siberia a day earlier, flipping the aircraft upside down but causing ...
All passengers survive after plane makes hard landing in Siberia
All 19 people on board a Russian Antonov An-28 passenger plane that vanished from radars in Siberia survived after the aircraft made a hard landing on Friday, the emergencies ministry said.
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Russia warns Britain: sail near Crimea again and your sailors will get hurt
A senior Russian security official warned Britain on Wednesday not to sail its warships near Russian-annexed Crimea again unless it wanted its sailors to get hurt.
The warning, issued by ...
Russia records around 428,000 excess deaths during pandemic
Russia recorded around 428,000 excess deaths from April 2020 to May this year during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Reuters calculations based on data released by the state statistics service on Friday.
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No survivors from plane crash in Russia’s far east, rescue officials say (Update 2)
There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited rescue officials as saying.
The Antonov An-26 twin-engined ...