The US Embassy in Russia is reducing the list of services provided to individuals due to new restrictions imposed on its employees. From May 12, the US Embassy in Russia will start working only for American citizens. Consular services will not be pro...

Leonid Volkov, the head of Alexei Navalny's regional headquarters (the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent), announced that the ne...

Moscow announced the expulsion of Baltic and Slovakian diplomats.  A statement posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that three employees of the Slovakian embassy, ​​two employees of the Lithuanian embassy, ​​as well as ...

Against the background of the growing sanctions pressure on the part of the United States, Russia  gradually started to refuse from the use of the US dollar. The share of the US dollar in Russia's export settlements in the fourth quarter of last yea...

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, said that the relations between Moscow and Washington have returned to the era of the Cold War.  “During the recent years, the relations between Russia and the United States have ac...

Presidents of Egypt and Russia Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Vladimir Putin agreed to resume flights to Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh, the office of the Egyptian president said, RIA Novosti reports.  According to the representative of the office of the Eg...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to discuss the topic of bilateral relations at a possible meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky. However, the Kremlin refuses to touch upon the topic of the Crimea, Putin's official spokesm...

The Russian Armed Forces must be prepared that NATO military exercises may unfold on "unfavorable development" scenario, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, the Russian military need to be prepared fo...

The troops of the Southern and Western military districts will begin to return from Russia's southern borders to the points of their permanent deployment starting April 23, Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu announced. “I believe that the objectives of...

On Thursday, April 22, Russia's Defense Ministry said that more than 10,000 servicemen were taking part in the active phase of the joint-force military exercises on the peninsula. As many as 1,200 units of weapons and military equipment from the comb...

The Russian Foreign Ministry declared ten employees of the US Embassy in Russia persona non grata. US Deputy Ambassador to Moscow, Bart Gorman, received the corresponding note on Wednesday, April 21.  According to Russian Foreign Ministry representa...

Four doctors not attributed to the system of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) visited Alexei Navalny, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK, listed  by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions o...

Alexei Navalny, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK, included by the Russian Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent) is to be transferred from the penal colony to a regional hospital,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin earned almost 10 million rubles last year ($134,000). His income was disclosed in a fiscal declaration posted on the Kremlin's website. In 2019, Putin earned 9.726 million rubles. The president owns a ​​77-square-...

The Kremlin hopes to convince Turkey that its position regarding the Crimea is wrong, Putin's official spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, RIA Novosti reports.  Peskov set out a hope that Moscow would eventually be able to convince the Turkish side of ...

Putin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the statements from American President Joe Biden, who said that Washington sought to avoid escalation of tensions with Moscow, stated that earlier Vladimir Putin had expressed exactly the same p...

Moscow will respond to new US sanctions on a reciprocal basis in order to ensure its interests in the best possible way, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, TASS reports on Thursday, April 15. “In any case, it is the principle of reciprocity that...

Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted year-round navigation along the Northern Sea Route. Speaking at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, Putin said that this may happen "in the very near future, in the comi...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has had his second jab of coronavirus vaccine, TASS reports. "I hope that everything will be fine. Not even that I hope, but I am sure of it. And I wish you the same. I presume that you, taking care of yourself and yo...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia saw the need to switch to national or alternative currencies in settlements with other states to get rid of the US dollar peg. Russia is also working to abandon Western payment systems, Lavrov s...