Russia launched what Ukraine described as its 'most powerful' attack of the year on the country's energy infrastructure between Monday night and Tuesday morning, leaving hundreds of thousands without heat as temperatures plunged.
Popular Kazakh comedian Nurlan Saburov has been banned from entering Russia for 50 years after law enforcement authorities accused him of violating migration and tax rules, as well as of criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, state media reported Friday.
Law enforcement authorities in the republic of Bashkortostan arrested a teenager after he shot his teacher with an airsoft gun and set off a firecracker at his school in the regional capital of Ufa on Tuesday.
For one woman from Moscow, shopping for groceries these days has become something of a competition.
A Russian general who serves as a senior military intelligence official in the Defense Ministry was the target of an apparent assassination attempt on Friday morning after an unidentified gunman shot him several times at his home in Moscow, police investigators said, marking the latest in a string of attacks against Russian security officials since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian government said Thursday it would allocate 1.27 billion rubles ($16.6 million) to cover three months of housing costs for nearly 21,000 families displaced as a result of Ukraine’s incursion into the southwestern Kursk region.
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday dismissed his longtime ally and former Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov as special representative for environmental protection and transportation.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, American and Soviet negotiators met in Helsinki and Vienna for a series of talks on arms control that led to a breakthrough.
A second round of talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States is underway in Abu Dhabi, with negotiators from the three countries holding a final series of meetings on Thursday after describing discussions from the previous day as “substantive” and “productive.” Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s chief negotiator and the head of its national security and defense council, said the work of negotiators had so far been “focused on concrete steps and practical solutions” to ending the war, wh...
A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced stand-up comedian Artemy Ostanin to five years and 9 months in prison after he was found guilty of “inciting hatred” and “insulting the religious feelings of believers” in jokes he made during performances last year.
A 14-year-old girl was arrested in the Krasnoyarsk region on Wednesday after she set fire to a school classroom and assaulted students with a hammer, marking the second attack at a school in the Siberian region in just as many days.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping days after U.S.
Two top Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) officials said Friday they had paid the first visit to Moscow since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s diplomatic mission in the Georgian breakaway territory of Abkhazia said Friday that it would stop issuing Russian internal passports out of “respect” for the local authorities, coming just a month after Moscow launched the initiative. “The issuance of these documents to the citizens of the republic of Abkhazia will be moved to Russian territory,” the Russian Embassy in Sokhumi said in a statement.
Russia’s Federal Customs Service said Thursday that it thwarted an attempt to smuggle a large meteorite fragment out of the country.