Russian opposition leader Alexej Navalni has once again been guilty of organizing illicit demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin ('He is not our Tsar') and disobedience to the police. He was therefore sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment on Tuesday, due to his role in the protest actions on 5 May.
Russian President Vladimir Putin first crossed the 19-kilometer bridge to Crimea. He climbed himself behind the wheel of a truck.
A conventional war against the West is too expensive and too dangerous for Russia. That is why Moscow is conducting a hybrid war with disinformation and propaganda, smoldering conflicts and sabotage, settlements and cyber attacks. For this dangerous aggression, Western espionage services warned in Berlin yesterday.
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian company specialized in antivirus software and other computer security. It has about 3300 employees, especially IT security specialists. The head office is in Moscow. The unlisted company owes its name to two of the four founders: Eugene and his (ex-) wife Natalya Kaspersky.
Because of their involvement in organizing the Russian presidential elections on the Russian-annexed Crimea, the European Union has put five new names on the sanction list. The five had managerial duties in the election commissions of Crimea or the city of Sevastopol.
Azerbaijan has threatened the newly-elected prime minister of neighboring Armenia, former journalist and former opposition leader Nikol Pasjinian, with large-scale military operations in protest against Yerevan's policy on the controversial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russian President Vladimir Putin took the traditional military parade on Wednesday in Moscow to celebrate the victory of the Soviet army over Nazi Germany. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was present at the ceremony as a guest.
Two Russian pilots were killed in a helicopter accident in Syria. According to the Russian news agency TASS, their helicopter crashed during a routine flight over the east of the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin took the oath on Monday for his fourth term. For about five thousand guests in the Moscow Kremlin, he promised 'to be faithful to the people.'
Russian opposition leader Aleksej Navalni was arrested in Moscow when he wanted to join a demonstration. In Moscow and other cities in Russia, Saturday is demonstrated against President Vladimir Putin. Navalni has called for this on the occasion of the official start of Putin's fourth term as president. He will be sworn on Monday.
In the Russian capital Moscow more than 130,000 people have taken to the streets for the traditional trade union parade on 1 May, the Labor Day. With slogans such as 'For a fairer social policy' and 'Care for the elderly', the Muscovites, led by mayor Sergei Sobjanin, marched to the Red Square.
Thousands of people have demonstrated in Moscow against the blockade of messaging app Telegram. 'Putin's regime declared war on the internet and the free society. So we have to support Telegram here, 'said one of the demonstrators.
President Vladimir Putin has told his South Korean colleague Moon Jae-in that Russia wants to make a positive contribution to cooperation between North and South Korea. That is what the Kremlin has announced on Sunday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok (VVD) is impressed by the first performance of his new American colleague Mike Pompeo on the international stage. He calls it 'an illustration of the importance that the US attaches to NATO', that Pompeo did not visit the Foreign Ministers of the Alliance in Brussels until about twelve hours after his appointment. 'Impressive', says Blok.
Visitors from three airports near Moscow are no longer allowed to sleep on benches, sit on floors or drive around on trolleys. In the run-up to the World Cup in Russia, the regional parliament agreed to stricter rules of conduct, reports the newspaper The Moscow Times.
In the former Soviet Republic of Armenia, the situation has become explosive, after Prime Minister Serzj Sarkisian ignored the opposition's call for resignation and started mass arrests of demonstrators in the capital Yerevan.
The special envoy of the United Nations for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has said on a visit to Moscow that the UN is exerting pressure on the inspectors of the OPCW to do their work in the Syrian Douma. The International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is with experts in Syria to find out whether in the until recently besieged Douma a poison attack has been and who should be held responsible for the use of the poison.
US President Donald Trump has invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to visit the White House.
Russia's claim that double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the British Salisbury have been poisoned with a poisonous gas made in the West is wrong. According to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), only novitsjok was found at the crime scene. That is a nerve gas of Russian manufacture.
The US government has informed Russia that it does not have to fear new punitive measures for the time being. 'I can confirm that the US has informed the Russian embassy that there will be no new sanctions for the time being', said a source within the Russian Foreign Ministry against news agency TASS.
Russia is now threatening Facebook with a blockade. The Moscow authorities want data from Russian users to be stored in Russia. If that does not happen, the site and app will be blocked before the end of the year.
The Americans and the British accuse the Kremlin of having opened a cyber attack on the global Internet, with the Russians using computer viruses for political and economic espionage. According to Washington and London, both government and private institutions are targeted.
The deadly fire in a shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo last month was caused by a short circuit. This appears from a first investigation by the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations, reports the RIA news agency.
Russian President Putin and German government leader Merkel have called each other on Tuesday and talked about Syria and the project Nord Stream 2, the natural gas pipelines from Russia. Putin has again complained, according to Russian media, that the Western attacks on Syria last weekend violate international law and damage the peace process there.
The dust clouds from the Western attack on Syria have barely descended or everything is already in the old: Russia and Bashar al-Assad dictate what happens on the ground. The Syrian Air Force will continue unperturbed with bombing and Moscow refuses to admit inspectors from the OPCW to the spot where more than a week ago a poison gas attack was carried out.
The American government has not yet made a decision about new sanctions against Russia. 'We are still considering imposing additional sanctions on Russia. This will be decided in the near future ', the White House stated in a statement.
A Russian investigative journalist, Maxim Borodin, who wrote about the death of mercenaries in Syria, was killed by a fall from his apartment on the fifth floor.
Russians can no longer use the chat app Telegram since Monday. The service is blocked. The telecom watchdog has passed that assignment to the providers. Russia also wants Telegram from the Apple App Store and the Play Store from Google.
Russia has started a campaign of 'dirty tricks \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; against Great Britain and the United States after the attack on Syrian targets. The British government has seen the amount of disinformation that Russia is spreading through social media twenty-five years since the rocket attacks in the early hours of Saturday.
French President Emmanuel Macron has defended the rocket attack on targets in Syria. The intervention was necessary to give the international community 'some credibility', the president said in an interview that was broadcast by several French media.
