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Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests …

First greeted with scepticism, experts have since been convinced of the effectiveness of the Russian coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V, with positive results published in The Lancet medical journal on Tuesday. …

Chants of “Putin is a thief!” and “Freedom!” echoed through snowy streets and squares of Russia on Sunday, as tens of thousands of protesters turned out across the country in …

Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russia’s vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up …

KALININGRAD, Russia — Aleksandr Dobralsky took to the streets to protest the arrest this past month of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader. But he had other grievances as well. “It’s …

MOSCOW — Aleksandr Pasechnik, a socialist, sees the jailed opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny as part of the “liberal intelligentsia.” Mikhail Svetov, Russia’s best-known libertarian, recoils from Mr. Navalny’s economic …

The authorities mounted a massive effort to stem the tide of demonstrations after tens of thousands of people rallied across the country. Thousands of people took to the streets Sunday …

BAKU: Russia and Turkey opened a joint centre on Saturday to observe a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh that was agreed following a flare-up in the conflict in the region last year, …

Moscow: The brother and aides of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were placed under house arrest on Friday ahead of new rallies, as Russian authorities warned that protesters could face …

Written By Tariq Panja The president of the International Biathlon Union told police that the young woman who had come to his hotel in Moscow was a prostitute, but he …

Highlighting India’s vaccine outreach to a number of countries, India’s Ambassador to Russia Bala Venkatesh Varma has said that New Delhi believes in ‘Vaccine cooperation’ and not ‘vaccine competition’ or …

CNN’s Matthew Chance speaks exclusively with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, who — after falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin himself — spent more than 10 years in …

Whether out of superstition, scorn or steadfast denial, Russian President Vladimir Putin famously avoids saying Alexei Navalny’s name out loud. But across the vast country Putin rules, the leading opposition …

Speaking via video link to the World Economic Forum’s virtual meeting, Mr. Putin hailed the decision to extend the treaty as “a step in the right direction, Russian lawmakers on …

Russia had initially introduced the travel restrictions on March 16, 2020 to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading. Russia lifted a travel ban for Finland, Vietnam, India and Qatar that …

Tens of thousands nationwide answered Navalny’s call to rally, issued after he was detained at a Moscow airport on arrival from Germany, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal …

MOSCOW — For years, the Kremlin tried to ignore the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, right down to avoiding the very mention of his name. But by Sunday, Russian officials …

Navalny was arrested on 17 January when he returned to Moscow from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from a severe nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the …

MOSCOW — From the frozen streets of Russia’s Far East and Siberia to the grand plazas of Moscow and St. Petersburg, tens of thousands of Russians rallied in support of …

Yulia Navalnaya announced she had been detained by police in an Instagram post on Saturday. She was taking part in a Moscow rally, demanding the release of her husband, Kremlin …

Russian police on Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus 58 degrees to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the country’s …

MOSCOW: Mobile phone and internet services in Russia suffered outages on Saturday as police cracked down on anti-Kremlin protesters, the monitoring site downdetector.ru showed. The authorities sometimes interfere with mobile …

The Biden administration has pushed to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, with Russia for five years, which is set to expire on Feb. 5. The …

The number of deaths increased by 580 to 68,412, the Xinhua news agency reported. Figures show that 3,081,536 people have recovered, including 27,318 recoveries over the past day. Moscow has …

Allies of President Vladimir Putin’s top critics are planning to hold demonstrations on Saturday in dozens of cities in support of Opposition leader Navalny, who was arrested and held behind …

It seems a Russian court has started to scribble the names of anime series in a mysterious black notebook. A district court banned Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul and Inuyashiki on …