Russia carried out five missile strikes on Ukraine’s second-biggest city Kharkiv on Monday, causing “very serious damage” to energy infrastructure, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. “This is not just an attack on facilities. It’s an attack on heating, on water, on people’s normal lives. They are trying to break us with fear and darkness,” he said […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said there will be no more wars after Ukraine, if Russia is treated with respect – and dismissed claims that Moscow is planning to attack European countries as “nonsense”. In a televised event lasting almost four and a half hours, he was asked by the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg whether there […]
Russia says it is “closely monitoring developments” related to reports of potential US military action in Nigeria. Maria Zakhorova, the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson, spoke during a press briefing in Moscow on Friday, asking “all parties involved to strictly comply with international legal norms”. The statement comes after US defence officials on Wednesday noted that […]
For almost three years, Russia has been waging a full-scale war against Ukraine, this is the largest and bloodiest military conflict in Europe since the end of World War II. The war unleashed by the Putin regime is an aggression aimed at seizing the territories of sovereign independent Ukraine, the deliberate destruction of the Ukrainian […]
For nearly three years, Russia has waged its unnecessary and unsuccessful war in Ukraine. Throughout the invasion, Russian forces have destroyed dozens of cities and villages. They have bombed residential areas, cultural centers, schools, places of worship, and other nonmilitary targets. The Russians have displaced one-fourth of Ukraine’s population, and they have killed thousands of […]
Russia is not a stranger to the use of propaganda and disinformation campaigns in Europe. One of the countries where Russian propaganda found fertile ground is Serbia. Propaganda and disinformation are used by Moscow in a way to present the Ukraine negatively and Russia positively, especially during the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war.Breaking point happened when Ukraine […]
Russia could find itself with no money as soon as next year and needs foreign investment, outspoken Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has said. “There will be no money already next year, we need foreign investors,” he said at an economic conference in Siberia Thursday, according to comments reported by TASS, a Russian state-owned news agency. […]
Russia has placed an entry ban on the family of United States President, Joe Biden. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said this on Tuesday. Biden’s wife, Jill and daughter, Ashley, would no longer be allowed to travel to Russia. Recall that Biden and Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, as well as hundreds of lawmakers, are […]
Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has revealed that Russia wants to burn five towns in his country to ashes. The five towns are Popasna, Bakhmut, Lyman, Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. Zelensky said this in his nightly address on Thursday, according to CNN. He also said that Russia’s intensified offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region reflects ‘an obvious […]
Pyongyang’s ambassador to Russia told TASS news agency that North Korea plans to strengthen cooperation with Russia to counter the US, and that peace on the Korean peninsula will not be feasible until American forces are evacuated. Ambassador Sin Hong-remarks chol’s came after senior North Korean leaders warned this week that going through with annual […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that could keep him in office in the Kremlin until 2036, the government said on Monday. The legislation allows him to run for two more six-year terms once his current stint ends in 2024. It follows changes to the constitution last year. Those changes were backed in […]
Russia announced on Monday that a punitive Twitter slowdown would be extended until May 15, despite the fact that the US social media platform had accelerated the deletion of banned content. Moscow has traditionally taken a more hands-off role in policing the internet than neighbouring China. But as friction has grown this year over the […]
On Tuesday, the Kremlin stated that it had purposefully chosen not to reveal the name of the Russian-made vaccine that President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to receive later that day. “We are deliberately not saying which shot the president will get, noting that all three Russian (-made) vaccines are absolutely reliable and effective,” Kremlin spokesman […]
The Russian state communications watchdog on Wednesday said it was restricting the use of Twitter by slowing down its speed, accusing the social media platform of repeatedly failing to remove banned content from its site. Roskomnadzor threatened to block the service completely, adding that there were more than 3,000 posts containing illegal content on it […]
Russian authorities are suing five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests, the Interfax news agency cited a Moscow court as saying on Tuesday. Twitter, Google, Facebook each have three cases against them, with each violation punishable by a fine of up to 4 million […]
Russia’s communications regulator accused Twitter on Monday of violating Russian law, saying the social media platform had not complied with some of its requests to delete banned content. Roskomnadzor said Twitter had failed to delete 2,862 posts containing material linked to suicide, pornography and drugs since 2017. It could be fined heavily if found guilty […]
A 47-year-old man in Sweden was on Monday charged with alledged espionage, providing Russia with information about Swedish companies in return for payment. The man was caught meeting a Russian intelligence officer working under diplomatic cover at a Stockholm restaurant in February 2019, the Swedish security service said. He was alleged to have been recruited […]
The director of US intelligence on Friday raised concerns about interference in the 2020 election by China, Russia and Iran. U.S. intelligence has assessed that China is hoping President Donald Trump does not win reelection, Russia is working to denigrate Democrat Joe Biden and Iran is seeking to undermine democratic institutions, said Bill Evanina, director […]
Russia said Monday it aims to launch mass production of a coronavirus vaccine next month and turn out “several million” doses per month by next year. READ ALSO: Trump hopes for COVID-19 vaccine by end of year, ‘maybe before’ Reports say Russia is pushing ahead with several vaccine prototypes and one trailed by the Gamaleya […]
A Russian taxi driver allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death before pushing her corpse around town in a wheelbarrow. 25-year-old Cabbie Filip Grigoryev, reportedly had an argument with his unnamed girlfriend before being caught on CCTV wheeling the barrow around roads. Filip who drove his girlfriend’s body around town for an hour eventually dumped his […]