January 24, 2021 9:40 am
The country’s technical committee has cleared and recommended the vaccine to the drug registration board that is considering Sputnik’s application, said Akhtar Abbas Khan, spokesperson for Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan.
January 24, 2021 8:37 am
Russian police on Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus-50 C (minus-58 F) to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the country's top opposition figure
January 24, 2021 10:45 am
Russia protests: So far, over 800 people have been detained, including Alexei Navalny's wife and close aides. The police have said the rallies are illegal.
January 23, 2021 8:56 am
The gatherings will be the first protests by Navalny's supporters since he returned dramatically to Moscow and was immediately arrested last weekend after recovering in Germany from a nerve agent poisoning in Russia.
January 20, 2021 9:28 am
Navalny and his allies have released several investigations into alleged official corruption, using them to try to increase support for the opposition politician and his movement.
January 19, 2021 8:37 am
Parler vanished from the internet after its users called for violence and posted videos glorifying the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
January 19, 2021 11:16 am
Following this, the US and European countries have demanded that Navalny be released from detention.
January 22, 2021 2:34 pm
In November, the United States left the OST first after accusing Russia of violating the pact– allegations that Russia denied. Moscow has now blamed Washington for its own decision of leaving the treaty.
January 17, 2021 3:38 pm
Germany's government called for a thorough probe in Russia into the activist's poisoning. A Justice Ministry spokesman said the Kremlin had the clothing, blood and tissue samples necessary to carry out an investigation.
January 13, 2021 9:50 am
Navalny, who is convalescing in Germany from an August poisoning with a nerve agent that he has blamed on the Kremlin, alleged Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the new legal motion.
June 24, 2020 7:40 pm
The Victory Day parade normally is held on May 9, the nation's most important secular holiday, but this year it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
January 29, 2020 11:34 am
Maya Kachina (82) and Lev Kitayev (86) met on the dance floor in a park in the Russian capital over 20 years ago, neither of them was a professional dancer.
March 19, 2016 5:01 pm
All sixty-two people on board a flydubai Boeing 737 were killed when the plane crashed and burst into flames as it was landing in Rostov-on-Don, in Southern Russia, on Saturday morning.
December 24, 2015 8:33 pm
PrimeMinister Narendra Modi is on a two-day-visit to Russia where he and Russian President Vladimir Putin held 16th India-Russia Summit at the Kremlin.
July 27, 2014 3:32 pm
In Russia, Navy Day normally takes place on the last Sunday of July.
February 07, 2014 11:05 am
It's designed to celebrate a millennium of Russian might and this country's modern rebound, and kick off two weeks of extraordinary human endeavors and planetary sportsmanship.
June 22, 2020 6:11 pm
The New York Times reveals how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral in the pre-Internet era. Meet the KGB cons who invented it, and the “truth squad” that quashed it. For a bit.
June 22, 2020 6:23 pm
On this day, the first AK-47 went to production in what was then called the Soviet Union.
June 22, 2020 6:23 pm
On this day, the first AK-47 went to production in what was then called the Soviet Union.
February 17, 2016 2:05 pm
Mumbai, Feb 17 (ANI): The body of a girl who died in a fire incident in Russia arrived in Mumbai on Wednesday. In the shocking tragedy, two medical students from Maharashtra died of suffocation after a fire broke out in their institute in Russia on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Karishma Bhosale (20) from Pune and Pooja Kallur (22) from Nerul. BJP leader Kirit Somaiya was seen condoling the family members of the girl.
February 10, 2016 4:27 pm
January 24, 2016 1:31 pm
Russia, Jan 24 (ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended his greetings to the Indian citizens on the occasion of Republic Day. President Putin in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he appreciates relations of special and privileged strategic partnership between Russia and India. He added that he was sure that further build-up between the two nations will be fruitful bilateral cooperation in different areas. He also said that constructive interaction corresponds to their common interests and goes in line with ensuring stability and security in Asia and the entire world.
November 05, 2015 6:46 pm
Funerals have begun to take place in Russia for some of the 224 victims of the Sinai air crash. In the north western city of Veliky Novgorod, 60-year old Nina Lushchenko was the first to be laid to rest.
November 05, 2015 6:29 pm
Representatives of four Free Syrian Army rebel groups have dismissed a report claiming they would meet Russian officials to discuss fighting Islamic State militants.