Russian opposition leader Aleksej Navalni can not vote in the presidential elections in his country. According to the electoral commission, the politician is excluded from participation because he has been convicted of a criminal offense.
The United States is making great concerns about the violence in Eastern Ukraine against OSCE observers. They are threatened and even shot by separatists, a spokeswoman from the US Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
Russia reacted angry to new US punishment on Wednesday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Ryabkov, in protest, resigned with his American ambassador Thomas Shannon.
A Russian fighter plane hunted a fighter jet from NATO that came close to a device containing the Russian Defense Minister Sergej Sjoigoe. The incident occurred according to Tass press office over Baltic Baltic waters.
An American exploratory plane and a Russian fighter plane have crossed each other. The life-threatening incident occurred over the Baltic Sea, where only two and a half meters separated the two devices.
Russia has not been able to confirm that the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed last month by an air strike in Syria. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gennady Gatilov said this to the press agency Interfax on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that new US sanctions against Russia are putting pressure on relations between the countries. 'I think this is harmful,' said Russian leader according to state press office RIA Novosti.
A Russian unmanned spacecraft arrived Friday at ISS International Space Station. The space capsule, MS-06, was launched on Wednesday from a rocket base in Kazakhstan.
The Russian Ministry of Defense is investigating whether, at an air raid on the Syrian city of Raqqa, the head of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has come to life. The air attack was due at the end of May, reports the Russian press agency Tass.
Vladimir Putin started a cautious charity offensive on Thursday in the direction of the United States. The Russian president said during his traditional consultation with the civilian population that he would like to improve and normalize tense relations with the Americans. 'We do not see the US as an enemy', Putin assured the questionnaires. Without constructive cooperation with Washington, a solution to the crisis in Syria is impossible.
Russian opposition leader Aleksej Navalny has to enter the cell for thirty days. The judge condemned the pronounced opponent of President Vladimir Putin to imprisonment because he considered him guilty of repeated violation of the law on organizing public gatherings. That has been announced by Navalny spokesman, Kira Jarmisj, via Twitter on Monday evening.
Russian riot police arrested protesters in Moscow in the middle of Monday. According to witnesses, agents showed dozens of people. That happened when about a thousand protesters wanted to pull towards the Kremlin.
Russian opposition leader Aleksej Navalni was arrested on Monday. The police arrested the politician outside his home, said Navalni's wife on Twitter. That happened just before a announced demonstration against corruption.
A fire in Kratovo, a suburb of southeastern Moscow, killed at least four people, several others were injured. That's what Russian media reported on Saturday night.
The Russian House of Commons agreed on Friday a controversial plan to rebuild residents of Moscow massively. Despite protracted protests outside the Duma, the parliamentarians scarred the plan.
One month after President Trump sent him off the lane, ex-FBI director James Comey could say. He will appear on a public hearing on Thursday at the Senate Intelligence Commission.
Russian jet fighters accompanied a Norwegian Air Force patrol aircraft on a Tuesday. According to Moscow, the Norwegian device flew without the transponder standing above the Barents Sea along the Russian border.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he hardly spoke to the fired American national security advisor Michael Flynn when they had dinner together in Moscow in 2015. The meeting had little to cope with, said Putin on Sunday against the American news channel NBC.
The 36-year-old Chechen Adam Osmaev, who, according to Russia, was involved in a conspiracy against President Vladimir Putin, survived an attack due to his wife's shooting skills. Armina Okoejeva switched the man who wanted to wrap her husband with shots in her chest, hip and back. She remained unharmed.
The crash of the Russian military plane crashing in December in the Black Sea was probably caused by a pilot's error. Russian researchers concluded Thursday that the plane lost air pressure and that the pilot ignored the signals of his instruments, as evidenced by an analysis of flight data. According to the BBC, the researchers thought the pilot might have been overtaken.
Russia and China expressed their support for the climate treaty of Paris on Thursday. This happened while the international community was awaiting suspending US president Donald Trump wanting to withdraw his country from the international agreement.
During the night of Wednesday, the Russian Air Force destroyed three IS convoys in Syria on Thursday. In addition, eighty warriors of the terrorist organization came to life, a source said in the Russian Ministry of Defense Thursday against the press office TASS.
From Russian naval ships in the Mediterranean Sea, four cruising missiles were fired on positions of the Islamic State terrorist movement in Syria. Russian media reported that the missiles were launched from a frigate and a submarine and targeted by Islamic State (IS) in the vicinity of Palmyra.
The pro-European government of Moldova has expelled five Russian diplomats on Monday to anger the Moscow-supported president of the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the receipt of the nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen in Moscow shortly before the French presidential election. It was no attempt to influence, Putin said Monday after talks with the new French president Emmanuel Macron in Versailles.
France and Russia aim for a peaceful meeting in the so-called Normandy talks in the peace process for Ukraine's crisis-plunged Ukraine. In this informal group, Germany and Ukraine are also represented. The new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced this after a meeting with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin in Versailles, Paris on Monday.
During a heavy thunderstorm with hard winds, Monday in the Russian capital Moscow killed at least six people by swirling trees. Hundreds of trees went against the plain, wrote mayor Sergej Sobjanin on Twitter. About seventy people were injured, state agency Tass reported.
The development of North Korea's nuclear program should not be used as an excuse to trigger the US missile defense system already. This opinion is granted to Russia and China, according to the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, Friday.
The Russian internal security service, FSB, arrested four people on Thursday that wanted bombings on public transport in Moscow. It's about Russian citizens coming from countries in Central Asia, reported news channel RT. They would belong to a network that is linked to the Islamic State terrorist group and were driven from Syria.
Former CIA director John Brennan discussed the alleged Russian interference in the US presidential elections last year with Moscow. He briefly considered the matter with Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Russian security service FSB.
