EU opens contacts with Kremlin over Ukraine
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Renew Europe chief targets French conservative media over ‘Russian propaganda’
Renew Europe President and French MEP Valérie Hayer has accused two French conservative media outlets of relaying Kremlin narratives and called on the country’s…
Kremlin rules out talks with ‘semi-literate, incompetent’ EU bureaucrats
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has categorically ruled out any negotiations with Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas or the European Union's broader…
Russia jails schoolgirl for four years for posters of pro-Kyiv fighters
A Russian court Thursday upheld a four-year prison term for a 17-year-old girl who hung posters of pro-Ukraine Russian fighters in her school, Russian independent…
Moscow car blast kills Russian general
A senior Russian general was killed in southern Moscow on Monday after an explosive device placed under his car went off, investigators said in a statement.
France charges four over plot against Russia dissident
France has charged four people over a suspected plot against a Russian dissident, prosecutors said Friday, after a refugee who helped reveal abuses in Russian prisons…
Russia orders pre-installed app on all domestic mobile phones and tablets
The Russian Government announced that Max, a State-backed messaging app developed by VK, a Kremlin-controlled tech company, must be pre-installed on all mobile phones…
The Soviet Union erased Russia’s history as a European cultural nation
A crucial rule of successful diplomacy is that one does not have to approve of one enemy’s actions, but one does have to understand what motivates them.
Russia fines Google €18 decillion for YouTube restrictions
Google has been fined an astronomical sum, exponentially greater than global GDP, for refusing to restore accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets.
Russia accuses US of plotting ‘Tbilisi maidan’ as Georgia becomes East-West battleground
Moscow has accused Washington of plotting a "Tbilisi maidan" event aimed at an illegal coup of the Georgian Government, the TASS news agency has reported.
Russia bans distribution of dozens of EU news outlets in retaliatory step
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it was banning access inside Russia to the broadcasts of dozens of European Union media outlets in what it said was…
Kremlin chief targets West while Ukraine rejects Putin’s ceasefire demands
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council and former president of Russia, called for the mass mobilisation of Russian society to inflict "maximum…
Russia to remove Taliban from its terrorist list
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that the Taliban will be removed from the Russian Government’s list of terrorist organisations.
Russians flaunt captured Western military equipment
In the Russian capital, people are being treated to a show of the spoils of war.
French and Russians feud after ministers’ phone conversation
French and Russian officials are slinging accusations at one another in the wake of a high-profile phone call between both countries' defence ministers.
AI-created fakery rears its ugly head in Russia as Kremlin elections near
Generative AI has made its first widespread appearance in 2024 in Russia, ahead of presidential elections in the country.
International condemnation for Russia as Navalny dies in prison
Alexei Navalny, main figurehead of Russia's political opposition, has died in jail.
Kremlin ‘has eyes on Germany’ over Nord Stream pipeline blasts
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia will "watch what Germany does" to investigate explosions that tore through the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 after…
Bulgaria dismantles monumental reminder of Soviet Army
Bulgaria has started taking down a 45-metre monument to the Soviet Union's army that had dominated the skyline of Sofia for almost 70 years.
Is the Kremlin deliberately stoking anti-Israel sentiment in Western Europe?
In the streets of London, hundred thousand-strong mobs bay for Jewish blood under cover of “humanitarian concern” for Hamas-held Gaza.
Moldova cuts Russian Embassy staff numbers over ‘hostile actions’
Moldova said on July 26 it was sharply reducing the number of diplomats Russia can have in its capital Chisinau, citing years of "hostile actions" by Moscow and…
Kremlin condemns Polish renaming of Kaliningrad, now Królewiec
Poland demands name change for Russian city named after war criminal