Russia News
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russia and China warned Tuesday that a new US missile test had heightened military tensions and risked sparking an arms race, weeks after Washington ripped up a Cold War-era weapons pact with Moscow.
|
|
By AFP
Bormes-les-mimosas -
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday vowed to prevent the emergence of any mass demonstrations in Moscow like the "yellow vest" anti-government protests that erupted in France late last year.
|
|
By AFP
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday there was a "real opportunity" for peace in Ukraine following the election of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
|
|
By AFP
Bormes-les-mimosas -
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday hosts Vladimir Putin for a rare bilateral visit by the Russian strongman to a major EU power, seeking to press the Kremlin to help end the conflict in Ukraine.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
A man gathering firewood in Alaska discovered a bottle with a handwritten message inside wishing the finder "happy sailing" more than 50 years after it was dropped into the sea by a Russian sailor."Sincere greetings!
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin was detained moments after his release from jail on Sunday after completing a 10-day sentence for his role in Moscow's recent wave of protests.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
New machines popping up in Russian shopping centres seem innocuous enough -- users insert their passport and receive a small loan in a matter of minutes.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
French President Emmanuel Macron will attempt to convince Russia to accept Ukraine's overtures of dialogue when he meets Vladimir Putin for talks on Monday ahead of a G7 summit.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russian opposition activists held one-person protests in Moscow Saturday to demand free elections, as the wave of the Russian capital's larger demonstrations took a breather this weekend.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
What started as a Facebook post during a wave of mass protests in Russia eight years ago has turned into a rights group that helps arrested demonstrators -- one in increasing demand as police crack down hard on opposition rallies.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
An unexploded World War II bomb was found in the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow during construction works on Thursday, Russian news agencies reported.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
A Moscow court on Thursday released French banker Philippe Delpal from jail into house arrest, days before a summit between the Russian and French presidents.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
A Russian pilot was hailed as a hero Thursday for safely landing an Airbus carrying more than 230 people in a Moscow corn field after a bird strike.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
A Russian pilot was being hailed as a hero on Thursday for landing an Airbus carrying more than 230 people in a Moscow corn field after a bird strike.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
A Russian Airbus with more than 230 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing in a corn field outside Moscow on Thursday after hitting a flock of seagulls, officials said.There were no immediate reports of serious injuries.
|
|
By AFP
Pogorelov -
While Ukrainian troops were stationed in her village, Anna felt safe despite living on the frontline of a war that has claimed thousands of lives over the last five years.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
A deadly explosion at a Russian testing site has focused attention on President Vladimir Putin's bid to build a nuclear-powered missile that the Kremlin hopes would give Moscow the edge in a new arms race.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
France hopes President Vladimir Putin will respond positively to moves by his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to end the five-year-old conflict in the country's east, a French presidency official said Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
The Kremlin on Tuesday defended the police response to a wave of protests demanding free local elections in Moscow and downplayed the huge demonstrations.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russia's interior ministry opened an investigation Monday after a video showing a riot policeman punching a woman in the stomach during a protest for free elections went viral.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russia's nuclear agency chief on Monday confirmed that five scientists killed last week were developing "new weapons" and vowed to continue testing despite the explosion.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russian lawmakers will hold a special session next week to discuss alleged "meddling" by foreign powers after huge protests in Moscow, following a government warning to YouTube.
|
|
By AFP
Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov opened an economic forum on the Caspian Sea Monday, marking his first diplomatic outing and verifiable public appearance since rumours of his death swirled last month.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
The city that hosts Russia's main nuclear research site announced a day of mourning Sunday for five of its staff killed during a missile test that provoked elevated radiation levels.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
A Russian man with diabetes was in a serious condition in hospital Sunday after being detained over opposition protests and deprived of insulin, Russian media reported.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russia's nuclear agency on Saturday said an explosion at an Arctic missile testing site had killed five of its staff after the military had put the toll at two.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Nearly 50,000 opposition supporters rallied and dozens were arrested in Moscow on Saturday at one of the largest authorised protests since President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russia on Thursday froze the assets of an anti-corruption group that major opposition figure Alexei Navalny set up to expose the questionable wealth of top government officials, his spokeswoman said.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Two people died in an explosion at a military base in the Russian far north Thursday that caused a brief spike in radiation, the second accident to hit the country's facilities in a week.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
Vladimir Putin has held power for 20 years but he is still well behind the record terms of Cuba's late Fidel Castro and North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung.
|
apis-401929 apis-401896 apis-401890 apis-401875 apis-401872 apis-401797 apis-401788 apis-401785 apis-401731 apis-401690 apis-401632 apis-401625 apis-401614 apis-401610 apis-401604 apis-401588 apis-401531 apis-401468 apis-401460 apis-401426 apis-401411 apis-401404 apis-401388 apis-401352 apis-401341 apis-401280 apis-401271 apis-401178 apis-401170 apis-401151
Russia Image
Armed pro-Russia separatists stand guard near the train station on July 21, 2014 as intense shelling rocked the area, in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine Dominique Faget, AFP/File
Due to high water and bad road conditions, people couldn't get across the river, but they came up with an ingenious plan. YouTube
A historic picture of Putin opening a natural gas pipeline. Fitting for the current world events. Wikimedia courtesy of Russia.gov
A Boeing 737 airliner crashed on November 17, 2013, in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people on board and spotlighting the poor safety record of regional airlines that ply internal routes across the world's largest nation Russian Emergencies Ministry
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow pixelhut
Exhibition banner for the Russian Revolution, outside the British Library.
With the Arctic free of sea ice most of the year, a cruise is not that unusual. Gary Bembridge from London, UK (CC BY 2.0)
Radisson Lazurnaya Hotel, Sochi Radisson Lazurnaya Hotel, Sochi
Two gas cylinders exploded on the balcony of an apartment in Moscow causing a fire. YouTube
The 27-year-old Russian pianist Dmitry Masleev has won gold medal and $30,000 at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. © medici.tv
Police raided an underground complex with a huge clothing factory and entertainment facilities for illegal migrants. Video screen capture
Kuril Islands, Russia Dr. Igor Smolyar, NOAA/NODC
Russia's Defence Ministry released images showing an airstrike carried out by its warplanes on an Islamic State facility in the Syrian province of Idlib , Russian Defence Ministry/AFP
An ice garden by the Samara opera house
A man holds a sledgehammer as he smashes a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin, which was toppled by protesters during a rally organized by supporters of EU integration in Kiev, December 8, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Gleb Garanich
Greenpeace activists chain themselves to each other during a demonstration on Bosphorus bridge calling for the release of 30 people arrested in Russia over a protest against Arctic oil drilling, during the Istanbul Marathon in Istanbul November 17, 2013. The 30 people detained by Russia consists of 28 activists who were arrested after coastguards boarded the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise following the protest at an oil platform owned by state-controlled Gazprom off Russia's northern coas With permission by Reuters / Murad Sezer
Screengrab from LiveLeak video
Kim & Buran Quite Great PR
A shot of the British Library's exhibition marking 100 years since the Russian Revolution.
|
|
