President Putin venerated Gorbachev's coffin at hospital — he will not be able to attend the funeral due to the tight schedule. Putin said his goodbye to USSR's last leader in person as he visited the hospital, where Gorbachev's coffin is being kep...

Representative for the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Boris Loktionov, seeks a prison term of 24 years for former journalist Ivan Safronov, an adviser to the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, TASS reports. "A st...

US experts did not expect the Russian economy to be so resistant to large-scale foreign policy challenges, Business Insider's George Glover wrote in his column. After the start of the special operation in Ukraine, Western analysts were convinced that...

Vladimir Putin signed a decree to increase the staff strength of the Russian Armed Forces by 137,000 servicemen. The relevant document has been published on the website of legal information. “To establish the staff strength of the Armed Forces of t...

Russia cannot accept the fact that NATO could be stationed on the territory of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said speaking about the reasons for the special military operation in Ukraine, TASS reports. The decision ...

The State Duma (the Parliament) of the Russian Federation will gather for an Extraordinary Council on August 25. During the meeting, the Duma will issue a special statement on the situation in Ukraine, the leader of Just Russia — For Truth Party Se...

Philosopher Alexander Dugin gave his first comment on the murder of his daughter Daria. The text, at his request, was published by billionaire Konstantin Malofeev. "As you all know, as a result of the terrorist attack carried out by the Nazi Ukrainia...

Three MiG-31 aircraft armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles have been relocated to the Chkalovsk airfield in the Kaliningrad region as part of additional strategic deterrence measures, the Russian Defense Ministry said on August 18. "Today, August 1...

Russia has put forward a new requirement to pay for the supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Sakhalin-2 project. The new requirements targets buyers from Japan and South Korea, Bloomberg said. The new operator of the project sent instruct...

For the first time in history, the Chinese yuan has left the US dollar behind in terms of the volume of tomorrow transactions during trading on the Moscow Exchange. As of 2:40 pm, the volume of yuan trading amounted to 45.36 billion rubles, having ex...

Vice Admiral Viktor Sokolov has been appointed the new Commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, RIA Novosti reports. The previous Commander of the Black Sea Fleet was Admiral Igor Osipov. He was in command since May 3, 2019. Sokolov is currently com...

In Russia, work is underway on the mass construction of special shelters for military aircraft. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu ordered to start the program for the mass construction of special shelters for combat aircraft back in the spring o...

Maria Zakharova, an official representative for the Foreign Ministry of Russia, said that Russia would be ready to terminate relations with the United States should US Congress declare Russia a "state sponsor of terrorism." "The Russian Foreign Minis...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree enabling Russian banks, the foreign currency funds of which were frozen in other countries, to suspend operations with businesses in that particular. According to the decree, the transfer and issuance ...

The Russian delegation to the UN denied reports about Russian nuclear forces on high alert. Andrei Belousov, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the UN, stated that such statements were not true. "We have already pointed out the groundlessness o...

Russia's Central Bank currently conducts discussions with participants in the foreign exchange market how to determine the exchange rate of the Russia ruble against the dollar and the euro in the event exchange trading in Russia is terminated. This m...

Andrey Klishas, ​​the head of the Constitutional Committee of Russia's Federation Council, admitted that new territories could join Russia in the autumn of 2022. According to the senator, Russian MPs may concentrate on this issue in the upcoming ...

The future of Ukraine is very different from how Kyiv sees it. Dmitry Medvedevб Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russiaб discussed this in his Telegram channel. As an illustration of his thesis, Medvedev attached two pictures showing the ...

Moscow and Kyiv agreed to ensure the safe export of grain from Odessa and two other Ukrainian cities. Russia's Kalibr missile attackon the port of Odessa will not harm the agreement, because the attack targeted military facilities. There is no threat...

The world's largest titanium producer, Russian corporation VSMPO-Avisma, plans to mine raw materials on its own for its production in Russia, RBC reports with reference to the press service of the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use (Rosnedra). Since June...