The Yemen-based Houthi fighters have told Moscow and Beijing that their ships can sail freely through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden without fear of being attacked, Bloomberg has reported, citing sources.
Incumbent President Vladimir Putin is expected to win the presidential election, garnering over 87% of the votes, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has reported.
The continuing Ukrainian incursions into and strikes on Russia's border regions are primarily aimed at disrupting the ongoing election in the country, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has claimed.
Income disparity among the Russian population raised last year, a report on the social and economic situation in the country by Rosstat, the official statistics agency, has suggested.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was laid to rest at a Moscow cemetery Friday, exactly two weeks after his death was announced by Russia’s prison service.
The German government has prepared a model for a potential Russian attack on NATO, Bild has reported. According to the tabloid, authorities in Berlin have described four distinct phases, culminating in potential nuclear strikes on NATO member states.
Moscow's adversaries should remember that Russia has weapons capable of hitting targets on their territory, President Vladimir Putin of Russia said in his address to the Federal Assembly on Thursday.
French President Emmanuel Macron has argued that the deployment of forces to Ukraine by NATO members and other allies cannot be ruled out because Western powers must stop at nothing to ensure that Moscow does not defeat Kiev’s forces.
Early voting in the presidential election began in several Russian regions. It is for the most part aimed at citizens who live in parts of the country that are difficult to reach. Also, sailors who will be at sea on the main days of the election, can cast their votes starting this Sunday.
The body of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who died unexpectedly in prison days ago, was handed to his mother on Saturday in the Arctic city of Salekhard, his spokeswoman has confirmed, though it was unclear what will happen next to the body.
A spokeswoman for the late Alexei Navalny has stated that Russian authorities had told his mother he would be buried in the penal colony where he died unless she agreed within three hours to lay him to rest without a public funeral.
Senior prison officials at the Arctic penal colony where the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny died will be banned from the UK and have their assets frozen, under sanctions announced by Foreign Secretary David Cameron.
Moscow must allow an international investigation into the death of opposition figure and anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny, EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell has stated.
Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny says that Russian authorities are hiding her husband's body and “lying pathetically”, while waiting for traces of poisoning to disappear.
After the death of Russian opposition leader and government critic Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony on Friday, the country’s President Vladimir Putin is once again in the spotlight for the incident.
More than 400 people were arrested in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group has reported.
The United Kingdom will take action over the death in prison of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and is calling on other countries to do likewise, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron stated on Saturday.
Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has died, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets Region, where he had been serving his sentence, reported on Friday.
Moscow has shown true resilience by not bowing to foreign pressure, President Vladimir Putin has said. He stated that Russia is a “self-sufficient country”, whose economy is growing despite the sanctions, while EU member states are living through “difficult times".
The European Union should solve more important problems before forming its own army, Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated, commenting on Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani's statement.
An Iranian daily says Russia’s position on Gaza amid the months-long Israeli genocide of Palestinians in the besieged territory has been aligned with the US, warning officials in Tehran that Moscow is not a reliable partner in the international arena.
Russia can solve the most difficult problems and will never back down, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his New Year’s address, stressing that nothing can divide the people of Russia.
Moscow's oil sales to the Europran Union have shrunk to a tenth of the former level due to Western sanctions, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has announced.
