Prisons in the Russian capital Moscow have been refurbished due to the World Cup. That is what the Russian opposition leader Aleksej Navalny claims, who according to The Moscow Times has just been released. He was stuck for organizing unauthorized protests.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to visit Russia. According to him, this could take place during an economic forum in September, according to news agency TASS.
A Russian politician in charge of family affairs has well-meant advice for Russian women: do not have sex with foreign men during the World Cup. And if you have to, with someone of the same breed.
Russians receive massive training to learn to smile. This is because of the expected 1.5 million tourists who will visit Russia during the World Cup. With this, the country wants to do something about the stereotype that Russians do not often laugh at.
11 people lost their lives as a result of a collision between a tour boat and a tugboat in Russia. The accident was in the city of Volgograd. According to local authorities, all victims are Russian.
Russia is ready to improve relations with the US and there is reason to believe that a conversation with Donald Trump will be constructive. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this on Saturday according to Russian media.
The American president Donald Trump believes that Russia should again participate in the top of the G7. He stated that just before he boarded the plane that would take him to Canada.
Russian President Vladimir Putin answered questions on numerous domestic and international issues during his annual question show Thursday. Russians sent about 2 million questions this year, reports Russian media.
A Ukrainian journalist who would have spied for his homeland has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Russia. That said the lawyer of the convicted journalist Roman Shushchenko, who shared a photo of his client in a glass cage in the courtroom.
The Russian airline Pobeda fired two pilots after they had tried to fly drunk. The two wanted to take off from the Siberian Surgut, but fell through the basket during a check, reports Russian media.
During an international economic conference in September in Vladivostok, Russian president Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un can meet. The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, discussed this during his visit to Pyongyang last week, the Kremlin reported Monday.
In the run-up to the World Cup in Russia, the Russian food inspection service, Roskasjestvo, extensively tests the quality of beer. According to the Moscow Times, the inspectors cast more than forty brands of beer from the Netherlands and abroad. They look at the taste, the alcohol percentage, the ingredients and whether it foams sufficiently and long enough.
For the first time since NATO sent Russian diplomats away because of the attack with nerve gas on the former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Yoelia in Salisbury, both parties have again held political consultations. The so-called NATO-Russia Council met at Ambassador level at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.
Moscow is furious at Kiev after the Russian anti-Kremlin journalist Arkadi Babchenko, who was wound up in his apartment in Kiev on Tuesday, yesterday appeared at a press conference about his own death as a dope from a box alive.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok has in the UN Security Council sought the confrontation with the Russians he blames 'to spread disinformation' and 'to distort reality' about the shooting of the MH17 in the airspace of Ukraine.
The Russian investigative journalist and writer Arkady Babchenko, who was rather critical of, among other things, the annexation of the Crimea and the interference of Russia in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, was liquidated on Tuesday evening in his apartment in Kiev.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to Europe next week to talk with leaders about the threat Iran would pose. On Monday he will speak with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and in the evening he will go to Paris for consultation with the French president Emmanuel Macron.
The ruler of the autonomous republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadirov, wants to identify Russian children by means of DNA material and to bring them to Russia from the Middle East. The Moscow Times has reported that Kadirov said on social media that he is going to collect dna material in his Caucasian republic on a large scale to establish the kinship of children in Syria and Iraq.
Four Russian soldiers were killed in the east of Syria when rebels attacked an artillery arrangement of the Syrian army. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 43 rebels also died.
The English teacher does not want to say her name. Satisfied, she watches her students, stuck in camouflage combat suits, during an afternoon free climb an antique plane from the former Red Army. The war weapon is set up within the high walls of the Kremlin in Niznij Novgorod, an old trading town on the Volga, just 400 kilometers east of Moscow.
The researchers of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) have shown Buk missiles on Thursday of a type that has not been used in Russia since 2011. This is what the Russian Ministry of Defense says according to Russian media.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Thursday Thursday at the insistence of his French colleague Emmanuel Macron that Moscow will analyze the Dutch findings about the collapse of flight MH17. Because of the drama, all 298 passengers on Malaysia Airlines' aircraft lost their lives in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The Russian Permanent Representative to the EU questions the genuineness of the nerve gas attack on Sergei and Joelia Skripal.
Russia denies that once a Russian missile installation has crossed the border with Ukraine. According to news agency Sputnik, the Russian Ministry of Defense reiterates that no Russian soldiers were involved in the downing of flight MH17.
The American computer concern Cisco Systems warns of a Russian cyber attack on Ukraine. According to the company, hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices with high-quality hostile software in dozens of countries.
The Russian elite follows arguably the developments in London, where the government of Theresa May in a frankly destructive report of the British Parliament is accused of being blind to the 'dirty' money that President Vladimir Putin's business life has done in London over the past decades. City has laundered.
Visitors of the football World Cup in Russia do not have to look far for the perfect place for a selfie when they arrive in Moscow, because train stations in the capital lay special 'selfie locations'. to, the BBC reports.
It has been confirmed several times, but thanks to French medical scientists it is now one hundred percent certain: Adolf Hitler committed suicide in 1945. The French investigated the jaw of the Fuehrer who has been in possession of Russia since the end of the Second World War, and established that it is authentic.
Sergei Skripal has been discharged from the hospital. British media report that. He had been there since March because of his poisoning.
She has recently become the oldest woman in the world. Koku Istambulova turns 129 years, according to internal documents of the Russian government, and was 55 when the Second World War ended. Yet she was not happy for one day.
