#OpEd You couldn't ignore the thick black smoke that hung over proceedings — though people tried — rather like Russia's weakened economy, writes Tatyana Rybakova.
#OpEd Putin may have stayed in St. Petersburg if the electoral defeat of his political mentor hadn't propelled him to pursue a career in Moscow, writes Sergei Shelin.
A central focus of the fresh EU sanctions package is suppressing Russian energy revenues amid surging global oil prices driven by the war in the Middle East.
Both teenagers were charged with attempted murder and the illegal manufacture and storage of explosives, investigators said.
Since May, the Russian government has been trying to sell a 67.2% stake in the Yuzhuralzoloto Group of Companies.
Unverified reports suggested that a defense plant and an oil refinery were among the sites targeted in the overnight airstrikes.
Since the start of the year, assessments of Russia's industrial growth have diverged sharply from figures published by state statistics agency Rosstat.
Both the red Sokolnicheskaya and light-blue Filyovskaya lines will be extended by several stations.
Political prisoner Azat Miftakhov’s recent transfer to a notorious Arctic prison — and his allegations that he was tortured there — have left supporters fearing for his life.
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Law enforcement authorities in Moscow on Tuesday announced the arrests of two teenagers on suspicion of planning a car bomb attack in the Russian capital on the same day that a man was killed when his...
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Growing discrepancies between Russia's official industrial production statistics and independent estimates are raising questions among economists about the reliability of government data at a time whe...
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced Tuesday plans to extend two of the city’s oldest metro lines, bringing transit access to nearly half a million residents in the northeastern districts and the so...
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When the Kremlin invaded Ukraine, French union activist Marie-Laetitia Garric found herself drawn to Russian anti-war activism as the country where she had spent time two decades ago triggered a full-...
The European Union has proposed a visa ban on any Russian who has fought in the war against Ukraine as part of its next round of sanctions against Moscow, European Commission President Ursula von der ...
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The Russian government has for a third time failed to sell one of the country’s largest gold producers at auction after the sole potential buyer was disqualified from the bidding process.
Ukraine launched a sweeping wave of overnight air attacks targeting infrastructure, industrial facilities and other sites across several Russian regions and annexed Crimea, authorities said early Wedn...
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Questions over the future of Moscow’s control of the Tartus naval base and the Hmeimim airbase have mounted since the December 2024 ouster of Russian ally Bashar al-Assad.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it is in talks with the Syrian government regarding the “possible reformatting” of its military bases in the country.
