The Federation Council may gather for the meeting on October 4 to consider new laws on the accession of new territories to Russia after the referenda in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, Valentina Matviyenko, the chair of the upper house ...

The admission of new regions to Russia as a result of the referenda will require amendments to the Russian Constitution, a member of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation Alexander Bashkin said. According to him, changes will...

Former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden has been granted Russian citizenship. "Snowden Edward Joseph, born June 21, 1983 in the United States of America,” the list of those who received Russian citizenship says. Edward Snowden has b...

In Vladivostok, Federal Security Bureau (FSB) officers caught Consul of Japan Motoki Tatsunori red-handed for espionage, RIA Novosti reports. Intelligence officers detained the consul while he was buying limited distribution information about Russia'...

Reports in the media and social networks about the plans of the Russian authorities to mobilize more than 300,000 people are not true to fact, Kremlin official representative Dmitry Peskov said, RIA Novosti reports. "These are all fakes,” he said. ...

Possible attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the territories of Donbass, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, if the residents of those territories vote to become part of Russia at referendums, will be regarded as an attack on Russia, Putin'...

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has provided clarifications on the categories of citizens who do not fall under partial mobilization. Employees of organizations that provide high-tech industries and the financial system will not be ...

When announcing the mobilization, Russian officials avoided saying the word 'war'. They did not talk about the imposition of martial law either. Senator Klishas stated that partial mobilization could be carried out during peace period. All this gives...

The content of the seventh paragraph of the decree on partial mobilization is not to be disclosed, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said, TASS reports.  According to Peskov, the content of the seventh paragraph is secret and is intended solely ...

Russia will use all available means to defend its territory. This is not a bluff, Putin said. Russia will support the decision that residents of Donbass, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions are going to make, Putin said. Putin instructed to increase the...

Putin announced a partial mobilization to protect the sovereignty of Russia and protect people in the liberated territories. The decree on partial mobilization has been signed. MOBILIZATION STARTS TODAY, SEPTEMBER 21.

Yesterday's statements from Russian officials and media outlets about the absence of alternatives to referendums and their intention to defend the "captured" territories (Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia), up to the use of nuclear weapons, cou...

State Duma deputy Andrei Kartapolov, one of the authors of the amendments to introduce concepts of 'mobilization', 'martial law' and 'wartime' into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, said in an interview with the Parliamentary Newspaper (Pa...

Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to make a special statement about the referendums in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, sources in the Kremlin said. Three sources close to the presidenti...

A number of bills related to military service have been submitted to the State Duma (the Parliament) of the Russian Federation. The document was published in the electronic database of the State Duma, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, the document proposes ...

In response to NATO actions, Russia will reinforce the Western Military District (Zapadny Voenny Okrug — ZVO) with modern T-90M Proryv (Breakthrough) tanks. These tanks are not inferior to the prospective T-14 Armata tank in terms of their performa...

Yevgeny Prigozhin, an entrepreneur and owner of the Concord Company, responded to the request to comment on the need to send prisoners to participate in the special military operation in Ukraine. His comment appeared on company's official VK page. Ac...

In August, oil and condensate production in Russia declined by 170,000 barrels per day compared to July — to 10.96 million. At the same time, global oil production increased by 790,000 barrels per day, a report from the International Energy Agency ...

Russian MiG-31 fighter jets conducted exercises in the stratosphere where they practiced conditional missile strikes, representatives for the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy said Tuesday, September 13, Interfax reports. "The pilots of MiG-31 aircraf...

United Russia party MP Mikhail Sheremet, a member of the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, said that Russia needs to declare general mobilisation, otherwise the goals of the special military operation in Ukraine would not be achieved. "Witho...