Jailed Pussy Riot band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is on her way to a new penal colony in Siberia, her husband said Tuesday, following fears after two weeks without information about her whereabouts.
The United States and Russia failed on Tuesday to agree a date for a Syrian peace conference, remaining divided over what role Iran might play in talks to end the civil war and over who would represent Syria’s opposition.
Activists and journalists detained aboard Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise icebreaker remain in detention in the Arctic city of Murmansk, despite a decision being made to take them to St. Petersburg, a defense lawyer said Tuesday.
Russia said on Tuesday Iran must be invited to a proposed peace conference on Syria, reiterating its stance after the main Syrian opposition leader said his coalition would not attend if Iran took part.
Two masked men broke into a party at an LGBT organization in St. Petersburg on Sunday, shooting participants in the face with air guns and injuring at least one man.
A justice official was killed in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s volatile North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, on Monday, a police source said.
Russia is moving the imprisoned crew of Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise protest ship from their jail in the Arctic Circle city of Murmansk to Saint Petersburg, the organisation announced Friday, quoting information from diplomats.
Two more Moscow government officials were sacked by the Russian capital’s mayor on Friday nearly two weeks after violent anti-migrant protests in a Moscow suburb, sparked by a fatal stabbing
Outspoken religious Russian lawmaker Vitaly Milonov cast a shadow on a Halloween celebration in St. Petersburg on Thursday night when he turned up to denounce the “Satanic” get-together as a slap in the face of the Russian people.
Intent on supplying his government with arms, oil and food, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has turned to Russian banks to access world markets, and the lenders could open more doors to him, despite a risk of isolation from the U.S. banking system.
