Tag: Russian
Probe launched as Russian athletes withdraw before doping tests
MOSCOW: The Russian track-and-field federation says it has launched an investigation after dozens of athletes suddenly withdrew from a competition in Irkutsk following the...
Russian priest charged over child molesting for 14 years prison
ST PETERSBURG: The Priozersky City Court in Russia’s Leningrad region has sentenced priest Gleb Grozovsky to 14 years in a high-security penal colony for...
Russian, US ambassadors seek to improve relations between countries
WASHINGTON: Russia’s Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov and the US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman outlined joint steps to improve the relations between...
Suspect remanded in Russian envoy assassination case
ANKARA: A suspect was remanded in custody in capital Ankara Friday as part of a probe into the assassination of the former Russian ambassador to...
IIHF confirms Russian hockey players’s uniforms with OAR logo for 2018...
MOSCOW: The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has confirmed on Saturday that Russian players will be performing at the 2018 Olympic Games in South...
Russian military helicopter crashes in Syria, 2 pilots die
MOSCOW: Russia's Defense Ministry says that a Russian military helicopter has crashed in Syria, killing both pilots aboard.
In a statement on January 3, the...
Russian Supreme Court due to hear Navalny lawsuit
MOSCOW: The Russian Supreme Court is due to hear on December 30 a lawsuit by Aleksei Navalny against the Central Election Commission for barring...
Body found near crash site of Russian helicopter off Svalbard
OSLO: The body of a man who died when a Russian Mi-8 helicopter crashed off the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Thursday was found...
China agency denies dead Russian model, 14, was overworked
SHANGHAI: The Chinese agency representing a 14-year-old Russian model who died after taking part in Shanghai Fashion Week has denied allegations that she was overworked...
Israeli spies found Russians using Kaspersky software for hacks: media
WASHINGTON: Israeli intelligence officials spying on Russian government hackers found they were using Kaspersky Lab antivirus software that is also used by 400 million...
Russian Embassy responds to US sanctions with a meme
Russia’s embassy in London on Thursday condemned the United States as ‘lame’, arguing Washington’s decision to impose sanctions on Moscow harked back to the...
Russian gold medallists used steroids at Sochi Olympics, says report
According to the media reports the former head of Russia‘s drug testing laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov has told whistleblower Vitaly Stepanov that at least four...
Investigation into Flydubai Russian crash points to pilot error
A Flydubai passenger plane crashed in Russia last month after being flown in a contradictory manner minutes before it smashed into the ground, a...
Bride-seeking Russian arrested in Chitral
A Russian national in search of a wife in Pakistan has been arrested and is being questioned by intelligence agencies, officials said Saturday.
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Risk of nuclear war in Europe growing warns Russian ex-minister
The East-West standoff over the Ukraine crisis has brought the threat of nuclear war in Europe closer than at any time since the 1980s,...
Russian warplanes leave Syria, raising UN hopes for peace talks
Russian warplanes began leaving Syria on Tuesday as Moscow started to draw down forces that have tipped the war President Bashar al-Assad's way, and...
Russian fighter jet sale to Iran would violate arms ban, says...
The Obama administration said Thursday that a proposed Russian sale of fighter jets to Iran would violate a United Nations arms embargo on Tehran,...
