On Sunday according to the human rights organization OVD-Info, the Russian police arrested nearly 850 people who demonstrated against the plans of the government to raise the pensionable age. In St Petersburg, most demonstrators were taken off the streets, 354 people prefered. The city of Ekaterinburg reported 129 arrests. Not all cities have received data.
Thousands of supporters of the Russian opposition leader Alexej Navalni, who himself is serving a prison sentence, have taken to the streets on Sunday in protest to raise the pensionable age. The organizers of the protest reported that the police certainly arrested 150 activists.
More than seven million Muscovites are allowed to go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new mayor. Although there are five candidates, it is almost certain that the Kremlin-faithful Sergei Sobjanin gets a new term.
Together with ally Russia, Syria carried out heavy air raids on Saturday in the province of Idlib. This is considered the last large enclave still in the hands of insurgents against President Bashar al-Assad. The Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least four people were killed.
Kim Jong-un wants to visit Russia. President Valentina Matvjenko of the Russian House of Lords said this after a meeting with the North Korean leader.
Canada, Germany, France, Great Britain and the US have said in a joint statement that the attack in March in England on the Russian ex-agent Skripal 'almost certainly happened with permission of a high level.' This has the British Prime Minister Theresa May, British media reported.
The Russian government has nothing to do with the attack on an ex-agent, Sergej Skripal. The British claim that the Kremlin has allowed this to happen is scandalous slander, Kremlin spokesperson Peskov said Thursday.
Russia has started bombarding Idlib in preparation for a major offensive by the Syrian regime and pro-Iranian militias. Donald Trump warns against a 'reckless attack', which he says can cause 'hundreds of thousands of deaths'.
The small hole that was discovered last week in the wall of the ISS space station may have been made intentional. The Russian space agency Roskosmos is researching this. It may be that someone on earth has done something, says the top man of Roskosm, Dimitri Rogozin, against Russian state media. According to Rogozin, it is even possible that someone in space has consciously sabotaged the station. However, it could also have been a human error.
During her IVF treatment in the hospital, a Russian woman exchanged a jar of her husband's sperm with that of her secret lover.
Thousands of Russians have once again taken to the streets on Sunday to demonstrate against the increase of the retirement age. The BBC reports that more than ten thousand people took part in the protest. President Vladimir Putin has already announced Wednesday to raise the age less, but for many people that is not enough.
For the funeral of the East-Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist leader Aleksandr Zachartsjenko, tens of thousands of people came on their feet. The 42-year-old Zachartsjenko was killed last Friday in a bombing with his bodyguard.
The murder of a pro-Russian separatist in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region is a provocation that makes peace negotiations impossible. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this in a reaction to the murder of the leader of the self-proclaimed republic of Donetsk, Aleksandr Zachartsjenko.
The Russian navy and air force will hold large-scale maneuvers in the Mediterranean from this weekend until 8 September. There are 26 naval vessels participating, under the command of naval commander Vladimir Korolev. Flagship in this exercise is the cruiser Oestinov, reported news agency Sputnik. The participants mainly practice in the hunt for submarines and the defense against air attacks.
At the airport at the Russian resort of Sochi, a passenger plane has crashed during the landing. Several people were injured when the aircraft hit the runway Saturday morning and collided with a barrier.
The Russian super rich will soon no longer have to do with a simple Rolls Royce or Maybach. The Russian state-owned company Aurus presented the Senat yesterday at the Moscow auto show, a luxury version of Vladimir Putin's limousine.
The Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoli Antonov, has warned the US that jihadists will again have a chemical attack in scene to provoke American attacks on Syria. Antonov therefore urged his American interlocutors not to commit 'illegal aggression against Syria' again.
A Belgian board member of the large Russian steel company NLMK was found dead under mysterious circumstances at his apartment in the center of Moscow.
The fighters who still control the northwestern Syrian Idlib province must be eliminated there soon. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this after an interview with his Saudi colleague Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir. Lavrov spoke about 'terrorists who form a tumor.'
Russia will hold the biggest military exercise in almost forty years next month. The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that yesterday. 'The exercise has no precedent in terms of geographical scale and troop strength,' says Shoigu.
Russia is going to hold the biggest military exercise since 1981 next month. Minister of Defense Sergei Schoigu announced that Tuesday. Almost 300,000 soldiers are involved in the Vostok 2018 (Eastern 2018) exercise.
The VDNCh park, where from 1959 until the end of the USSR in 1991 the so-called 'achievements' of the Soviet economy were exhibited, is fast becoming one of the most interesting parks on the whole globe. That is what the Moscow mayor Sergei Sobjanin says.
Russian opposition leader Alexej Navalni was sentenced to 30 days in jail by the judge. The Kremlin critic was found guilty of violation of the demonstration laws. As a result of this judicial decision, Navalni can not initiate a protest meeting against the pension reform in the coming month.
Russian Kalashnikov, world-famous for his automatic guns, has opened a new market. The company has unveiled a fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles, hoping to be able to battle with Tesla.
Aleksej Navalny was re-secured in Moscow on Saturday. The Russian opposition leader, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was arrested for his home in the capital for unclear reasons. His spokeswoman announced that.
Russia and the United States are going to reopen communication lines between the two countries. The US National Security Adviser John Bolton and his Russian counterpart Nikolaj Patroesjev agreed, Russian media reported on the authority of Patroesev.
The defense ministers of Russia and the Central African Republic (CAR) have signed an agreement for more military cooperation. According to Russian media, this opens the way for the Russians to intensify the training of the CAR forces.
Sergey Lavrov expects that a representative of the Taliban will take part in the Afghanistan conference on September 4 in Moscow. The Russian Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that besides the Afghan government, the radical Islamic insurgency movement was also invited. 'The first reactions are positive; they plan to attend the meeting. '
Russian hackers have focused their arrows on conservatives in the United States. Microsoft warns against this. The company claims to have taken over six domain names from the hackers. There were counterfeit sites of the think tanks The International Republican Institute and The Hudson Institute.
Russian President Putin speaks Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday evening in her official residence, the castle of Meseberg north of Berlin. This dialogue is the first they hold in Germany since relations cooled in 2014 after the Russian annexation of Crimea and the uprising in eastern Ukraine. Merkel began her fourth reign in March and Putin was re-elected in the same month. In May, Merkel visited Putin in Sochi.
