Russia

Due to the rapidly increasing number of corona infections, Moscow is instituting new measures to limit the spread of the virus. Working and studying from home becomes the starting point again. For example, students in Moscow get a…

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny thinks President Vladimir Putin is behind his recent poisoning, he says in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel. "I have no other version of what happened," said the Kremlin…

The struggle between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh must stop immediately. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said this Monday. The Kremlin urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to stop all military activities that further inflame…

Russia faces difficulties in investigating the Navalny case now that evidence has been removed. That is what the Kremlin says on Tuesday. Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was transported to Germany by plane…

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin meet on Monday in the Russian resort of Sochi on the Black Sea. According to the Kremlin, the two are holding a "working meeting" on strategic…

Russian police want to question opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Germany. The Russian Ministry of the Interior has submitted a request to that effect to the German authorities. 44-year-old Alexey Navalny, a prominent critic of…

Russian investigators will consider whether someone tried to assassinate opposition leader Alexej Navalny. The Russian investigation committee has asked its department in Siberia for further investigation, the Russian news agency…

The Kremlin and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church have warned Turkey about plans to turn the former Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul, now a museum, into a mosque again. The highest judges in Turkey will have to make a…

The number of corona infections diagnosed in Russia has passed 500,000. Authorities report that a further 8,779 people have been diagnosed with the virus in the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of detected infections in…

The number of people who died of the new coronavirus in Russia on Monday will approach 6000. In the last 24 hours, 112 Russians died with the lung virus, bringing the total death toll to 5971. Moscow reports that the virus has…