Meet the pup with Spring in his step! Moment dog became star of TV weather report in Moscow by grabbing journalist’s microphone and making a run for it Video captures moment a Labrador Retriever leaps up and grabs a weather reporter’s microphone from her grasp during live TV weather report Reporter Nadezhda Serezhkina can be seen … Read more
Russian police have detained 150 people at meeting of opposition politicians in Moscow, accusing them of having links to an ‘undesirable organisation’. The detentions come amid a crackdown on anti-Kremlin sentiment, following the arrest and imprisonment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny who returned to Russia in January after recovering from a nerve agent poisoning in … Read more
A Boeing 777 airliner on Friday made an emergency landing in Moscow with engine problems, the operating airline said, six days after another model rained down engine debris over the United States. Russia‘s state-owned Rossiya airline said the crew had registered the ‘incorrect operation of the engine control sensor’ on a cargo flight from Hong … Read more
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been moved to an undisclosed detention centre outside Moscow that may be a prison camp, his lawyer and a member of a rights organisation said today. Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was jailed this month over alleged parole violations related to an embezzlement case he … Read more
Moscow has been buried underneath two foot of snow, causing massive snow piles, disrupting transport, delaying flights and making it tough for pedestrians to make their way through the city. Snowfall began late on Thursday and was expected to end later today, but Russia‘s emergency service has warned people to stay away from trees. They’ve … Read more
EU accused of ‘kissing the backside of Russia’ after it turns to Moscow to make up its shortfall in vaccine supplies Josep Borrell backs Russian Sputnik V jab, congratulates country on its ‘success’ Russia expelled three European diplomats over imprisonment of Alexei Navalny Sir Iain Duncan Smith says EU is ‘kissing the backside of Russia,’ … Read more
Alexei Navalny has boarded a plane bound for Moscow, despite Russian authorities’ stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years. Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin‘s most prominent critics, was flown to Berlin in August for emergency medical treatment after being poisoned with what German tests showed was a Novichok nerve agent. … Read more
This is the harrowing moment a dancer was shot twice in the chest by a masked assassin outside her apartment block in Russia. Natalia Pronina, 30, from Moscow, was gunned down at close range by a hooded and masked man as she returned to her home near to the Akademicheskaya metro station from a choreography session. … Read more
Kremlin tells opposition leader Alexei Navalny that he is breaching terms of a suspended prison sentence by staying in Germany to be treated for novichok poisoning – and demands he return to Moscow immediately or face jail The prominent Putin critic has been in Germany since his poisoning Russia’s prison service said he must return … Read more
Notorious British traitor George Blake who claimed to have betrayed 600 agents to the Russians as a double agent during the Cold War dies in Moscow aged 98 George Blake died aged 98 in Moscow, Russian foreign intelligence revealed Blake claimed to have betrayed 600 agents to the Russians as a double agent He had … Read more