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A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Russia's far eastern Kuril Islands; tsunami warning issued for the closest shores

A spike in "pneumonia" cases in Russia is raising questions about the country's official coronavirus statistics, with skeptics saying the authoritarian government of Vladimir Putin is covering up the actual number of reported cases. "I hav

Ukraine tries to prove at the UN International Court of Justice that the Russian Federation pursues a policy of cultural destruction of ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea

Ukraines antitrust authority is preparing a case to potentially block a deal that would give Beijing access to unique defense technology, and the U.S. diplom

Yandex intends to place convertible bonds for a total amount of $1.25 billion, the company informed. The bonds will mature in 2025. The bonds will be converted to class A shares,

The decision to allow Putin but not Duda to speak could be perceived as Yad Vashem and the Israeli government taking Putin’s side.

Bulgarias Foreign Ministry gave two Russian embassy staff, identified as involved in espionage, 48 hours to leave the country, sofiaglobe.com reports.

Changes made to the constitution are aimed at giving more power to parliament and less to the President, as Putin sets the scene for Russia’s democratic future once he leaves his post (as it is widely believed he will) in 2024. For what in essence was clearly an attempt by Putin to further

Russia's government has resigned, according to the state news agency Tass who cited the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The main idea of what Bershidsky is trying to sell, though, – that Zelensky is Anti-Putin somehow, and what is more laughable still – that “he’s the only kind of threat Russian President Vladimir Putin has any reason to fear.”

In an era dominated by “fake news” and disinformation, conspiracy theories are coming to play an increasingly influential role in modern politics. During the recent impeachment hearings in the US, for example, former National Security Council official Fiona Hill warned that “fictional narratives”

Counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has prevented in Kharkiv an attempt to kill a former combat commander of an intelligence unit of a Ukrainian Armed Forces battalion, which was organized by Russian special services.

Donald Trump berated his White House staff for not telling him that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to set up a phone call with him in he early days of his presidency, a new book claims. The book, Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos , de

If we give facts and misinformation equal coverage, people will see only grossly distorted reality, said Evgen Tsybulenko, professor of International Law and le

Russian President Vladimir Putin called President Donald Trump on Sunday to thank the United States for helping stop a terrorist attack.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian media say shots have been fired in downtown Moscow near to the headquarters of the country's national security agency, with at least one person believed to have...

After a scandal when Apple marked Crimea as a part of Russia, users proposed a new version of advertising for the company.
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In an interview to #ZAUGLOM, the designer-general of the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering, Yuri Solomonov explained how Russia helped create the North Korea

Gazprom no longer makes enough money exporting gas to subsidize domestic Russian prices, Viktor Yatsenko, deputy head of the state monopoly company’s pricing department, told the Russian Gas forum.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against Evil Corp, the Russia-based cybercriminal organization responsible for the development and distribution of the Dridex malware. Evil Corp has used the Dridex malware to infect computers and harvest login