The State Duma (the Parliament) of the Russian Federation has ratified the agreement on the admission of the Donetsk and Luhansk people's regions (DPR and LPR) to the Russian Federation, TASS reports. This decision was taken unanimously. As many as 4...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed agreements to make the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions parts of the Russian Federation. Together with him, the heads of the LPR and DPR, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin started the much-anticipated ceremony in the Kremlin. Below are theses from his speech: - People have made their choice, this is the will of millions of people, this is their inalienable right, which is enshrined in t...

Russia will occupy all of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) within the boundaries in which the country recognized it. The borders of other regions which are going to become part of the Russian Federation remain unclear. The entire ...

The mobilised citizens, after coordination works, will proceed to fulfilling the mission to control and defend the new Russian territories, the Russian Defense Ministry said, TASS reports. The citizens who have been called up for duty as part of part...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver a "lengthy speech" at a special ceremony in the Kremlin on Friday, September 30, Kremlin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, TASS reports. According to the Kremlin spokesman, this is not going to be ...

The Federation Council may gather for the meeting on October 4 to consider new laws on the accession of new territories to Russia after the referenda in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, Valentina Matviyenko, the chair of the upper house ...

The admission of new regions to Russia as a result of the referenda will require amendments to the Russian Constitution, a member of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation Alexander Bashkin said. According to him, changes will...

Former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden has been granted Russian citizenship. "Snowden Edward Joseph, born June 21, 1983 in the United States of America,” the list of those who received Russian citizenship says. Edward Snowden has b...

In Vladivostok, Federal Security Bureau (FSB) officers caught Consul of Japan Motoki Tatsunori red-handed for espionage, RIA Novosti reports. Intelligence officers detained the consul while he was buying limited distribution information about Russia'...

Reports in the media and social networks about the plans of the Russian authorities to mobilize more than 300,000 people are not true to fact, Kremlin official representative Dmitry Peskov said, RIA Novosti reports. "These are all fakes,” he said. ...

Possible attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the territories of Donbass, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, if the residents of those territories vote to become part of Russia at referendums, will be regarded as an attack on Russia, Putin'...

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has provided clarifications on the categories of citizens who do not fall under partial mobilization. Employees of organizations that provide high-tech industries and the financial system will not be ...

When announcing the mobilization, Russian officials avoided saying the word 'war'. They did not talk about the imposition of martial law either. Senator Klishas stated that partial mobilization could be carried out during peace period. All this gives...

The content of the seventh paragraph of the decree on partial mobilization is not to be disclosed, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said, TASS reports.  According to Peskov, the content of the seventh paragraph is secret and is intended solely ...

Russia will use all available means to defend its territory. This is not a bluff, Putin said. Russia will support the decision that residents of Donbass, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions are going to make, Putin said. Putin instructed to increase the...

Putin announced a partial mobilization to protect the sovereignty of Russia and protect people in the liberated territories. The decree on partial mobilization has been signed. MOBILIZATION STARTS TODAY, SEPTEMBER 21.

Yesterday's statements from Russian officials and media outlets about the absence of alternatives to referendums and their intention to defend the "captured" territories (Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia), up to the use of nuclear weapons, cou...

State Duma deputy Andrei Kartapolov, one of the authors of the amendments to introduce concepts of 'mobilization', 'martial law' and 'wartime' into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, said in an interview with the Parliamentary Newspaper (Pa...

Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to make a special statement about the referendums in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, sources in the Kremlin said. Three sources close to the presidenti...