Russia has quietly reached a provisional agreement with Cuba on reopening a big Soviet-era base on the Caribbean island from which it spied in the United States, a Russian security source said on Wednesday.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has given top priority to the complaint of Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who was arrested in Russia and charged with taking part in killing of two Russian journalists, her attorney Valentina Telychenko said on Facebook.
At least ten people have been killed and 120 people injured after three metro cars derailed near Moscow’s Slavyansky Bulvar station Tuesday morning.
A ceremony for the beginning of the Russian-Indian naval exercise Indra-2014 was held Tuesday in Vladivostok, a spokesman for Russia’s Eastern Military District has said.
A graffitied wall bearing the words “Crimea and Russia together forever” has been painted over in Moscow, much to the disgust of the pro-Kremlin activist who commissioned the original artwork.
The first launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket after the May crash is expected to be carried out on September 28, 2014, Roscosmos First Deputy Director Alexander Ivanov said in an interview with Russia’s Ekho Moskvy radio station.
Pavel Skurikhin, the founder of the Siberian Agrarian Holding Group (SAHO) of companies, can be held in contempt of a British court for ignoring its request to disclose information about his assets abroad and for failing to attend court hearings, Kommersant newspaper writes on Monday.
Russian leadership is of two minds on how to respond to the ongoing fighting in Ukraine, which crossed the border over the weekend. But ‘surgical strikes’ appear to be off the table.
Doubts over Russia’s participation in the world’s biggest aerospace industry event were growing on Tuesday after the country’s deputy prime minister urged its delegates to pack up and go home.
The Khoroshevsky District Court in Moscow has sentenced Alexei Shirikhin, an aide to a State Duma lawmaker, to 5.5 years in prison in a 100,000 rubles ($2,915) extortion case, the court’s press secretary, Olga Litsareva, told RAPSI on Tuesday.
