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Opinion | Volodymyr Zelenskiy hasn't even been a full day in office as President of Ukraine, but has already done enough to be constantly compared to President...

Jan 18, 2026 - Opinion | Because of my work, I am obliged to read closely, watch attentively and listen carefully whenever Russian politicians and officials talk about the...

Dec 21, 2025 - The number of Russians living in Turkey has nearly halved over the past two years, falling from 154,000 in 2023 to about 85,000 in 2025, the pro-Kremlin daily...

The Russian military announced Thursday plans to hold a series of cross-country naval exercises in January and February as tensions with the West continue to...

The general view of Russian cuisine is that it is rather boring and predictable.

Jan 17, 2026 - A steady flow of Syrian refugees has started to settle in Russia's Perm region following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad late last year,...

Jan 18, 2026 - President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he believes U.S.

Jan 17, 2026 - Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council and a vocal critic of Western nations, has reportedly purchased a...

A cat in Siberia has become the second animal in the world to be successfully outfitted with four bionic prosthetic legs more than a year after losing her paws...

Jan 18, 2026 - Leaders in the U.S., Russia and Ukraine have softened their positions on the prospect of negotiating an end to Moscow's full-scale war against Kyiv in the...

Independent news from Russia

Jan 18, 2026 - Real wages in Russia grew by a solid 6.5% year-on-year in January, according to preliminary Rosstat data, just as the economy begins to cool and inflation...

When Vladimir Putin announced at the weekend that OPEC would extend oil production cuts, broadcasting a deal before the group had even met to approve it, the...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that economic and military "pressure" on its ally Cuba was "unacceptable," remarks made after the Trump...

Two German men will face trial in Berlin on Wednesday for allegedly stealing intelligence secrets and passing them on to Russia's security services.

Jan 18, 2026 - Russian Santa Claus is coming to town — but only if he has antibodies.

Britain on Tuesday announced new sanctions against Russia following what officials described as the largest-ever drone attack on Ukraine over the weekend.

Jan 17, 2026

Jan 18, 2026 - A Moscow court has posthumously found a man who was killed by his daughters nearly seven years ago guilty of sexually abusing them, Russian media reported...

Britain on Monday slapped sanctions on 135 oil tankers in Russia's shadow fleet in a bid to disrupt the flow of money helping Moscow fund the war in Ukraine.

Dec 5, 2025 - Russia’s Justice Ministry on Friday designated Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable” organization.

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Independent news from Russia

Freak ice storms following an abnormal weather phenomenon have left 150,000 people without water and electricity in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok...

Jan 18, 2026 - More than half a billion euros in frozen Russian assets held by Dutch banks and other financial institutions appear to have been released, De Telegraaf...

Moscow election officials on Thursday said they found no evidence of wrongdoing in online voting in parliamentary elections after a technical recount of the...

At a televised meeting with Vladimir Putin, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin flatly told the president that official figures on coronavirus cases were far from the...

Sheltered by snow-spattered mountains, the Stordalen mire is a flat, marshy plateau, pockmarked with muddy puddles.

Work has started to repair damaged power lines to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after a lengthy outage following the establishment of local ceasefire...

Approximately 550 people living in an outpost on Russia's Kara Sea coast could soon face big changes after the federal government earlier this month decided to...

Jan 19, 2026 - A group of WhatsApp and Telegram users in Russia has filed a class-action lawsuit against state media regulator Roskomnadzor and the Digital Development...

Jan 17, 2026 - Opinion | How many good ideas over recent years and decades have been ruined for the sole reason they were expressed rudely?

Jan 17, 2026 - Opinion | People generally have little faith in statistics and the overwhelming majority of Russians are convinced that Rosstat deliberately understates...

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that Russia would emerge "stronger" after the failed mutiny by Wagner Group mercenaries last weekend.

Two Russian men were on Monday sentenced to jail terms of three years and 10 years for a savage attack on an English football supporter at the 2016 European...

The United States said Sunday it was not sending troops to start a war with Russia after deploying 3,000 additional soldiers to Germany and Eastern Europe over...

Ukraine claimed Friday to have retaken swathes of ground near the frontline city of Bakhmut, as Russia reported having repelled an attack along a broad stretch...

The European Union on Monday slammed elections in Russian-occupied Ukraine, warning Kremlin-backed officials and vote organizers that they would face...

Jan 17, 2026 - Russian nationals continued to be the top foreign buyers of property in Turkey in December 2024, a ranking they have held since April 2022, the RBC news...

Russia has drawn up retaliatory measures in case the United States leaves the Open Skies treaty, a pact which allows both countries to conduct surveillance...

Russian athletes competed in the Tokyo Olympics under a neutral Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) flag due to a ban stemming from state-sponsored doping...

Jan 18, 2026 - The EU on Friday said 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) had been made available to support Ukraine, the first chunk of money earned from profits on frozen...

Leading Russian banks are working on plans to help each other retain at least short-term access to the global financial system in the event that they are hit...

Russian airlines will receive mothballed Soviet- and Russian-made aircraft in 2026-2027 to maintain passenger traffic, state industrial conglomerate Rostec...

Along with the implementation of a visa-free regime for Chinese tourists traveling to Russia that has been in place since December 1, the Moscow City Tourism...

Jan 18, 2026 - Russia is using cryptocurrencies in its oil trade with China and India to dodge Western sanctions, Reuters reported Friday, citing four sources with direct...

A Kyrgyzstan court said Monday state prosecutors had urged it to close down Kloop, a mainly U.S.-funded media organization, for content allegedly discrediting...

Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft on Friday announced a nearly 80% drop in net profit in 2020, following a record plunge in crude oil demand caused by the...

Jan 18, 2026 - Russia’s runaway consumer price inflation (CPI) made more gains in December, rising to 9.5% y/y, as the Central Bank continues to lose the fight to reign in...

Dec 11, 2025 - Renowned Soviet and Russian artist Erik Bulatov has died in Paris at the age of 92, media reported Sunday.

Jan 18, 2026 - Ukraine's largest steel producer Metinvest has suspended operations at its coal plant near the frontline town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region due to...

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Opinion | Whether Russia will ban access to VPNs from March 1 has been troubling experts and ordinary users for months, with lawmakers and the head of the...

Jan 18, 2026 - The Kremlin has advised Russian state-run media outlets to avoid excessive praise of U.S.

The Nobel Foundation said Saturday it was reversing its decision to invite ambassadors from Russia and Belarus to this year's Nobel award ceremony in...

Jan 17, 2026

Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the Paris Paralympics in 2024 under a neutral flag after officials voted against an outright ban.

Jan 18, 2026 - Iran has supplied large quantities of bullets, rockets and mortar shells to Russia for use in Ukraine, Sky News reported Wednesday, citing a security source. ...

Jan 19, 2026 - The United States should pressure Russia by "carrying out some sort of operation" to remove Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov from power, just like it did...

Kyiv said Wednesday that Russia had launched 20 Iranian-designed attack drones at targets in southern Ukraine overnight and that its air defense systems...

As world leaders gather in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit in hopes of agreeing on a strategy to avoid catastrophic global warming, Russia stands to face...

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Podcast | For decades, Russia has been an important political player in the South Caucasus and was perceived as a mediator between Armenia and Azerbaijan over...

Ukrainian shelling on Wednesday killed one and injured four people in Russia's border region of Belgorod, the governor said, targeting a region that has been...

Jan 18, 2026 - Citigroup announced Monday that its board had approved a plan to sell the last of its business operations in Russia, with the banking group expecting to take a...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, the Kremlin said, amid hopes the two countries can restore a...

Jan 18, 2026 - Farmers in southern Russia are facing the potential loss of up to 25% of key crops due to worsening drought conditions in the country’s leading agricultural...

Jan 18, 2026 - A court has ordered mining tycoon and Chelyabinsk region lawmaker Konstantin Strukov to pay 3.9 billion rubles ($49.3 million) in damages for environmental...

When the coronavirus pandemic pushed millions of people into government-mandated home isolation, the internet flooded with memes about our new collective...

Jan 19, 2026 - Russia's budget deficit rose by 168 billion rubles ($2.18 billion) in May, bringing the total for the first five months of 2025 to 3.4 trillion rubles...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday authorized the state-owned telecoms giant Rostelekom to buy out Finnish mobile operator Nokia's stake in a...

Ukrainian forces repulsed a Russian attack on Kyiv but "sabotage groups" infiltrated the capital, officials said Saturday, as Ukraine reported 198 civilians...

A Russian priest who opposes the war in Ukraine has fled the country and is now seeking asylum in the United States, according to reports.

Jan 18, 2026 - Car manufacturer AvtoVAZ has resumed production following the New Year’s break and returned its employees to a five-day workweek after reducing operations...

Jan 19, 2026 - A wave of arrests and detentions has swept Russia’s republic of Bashkortostan following last week’s protests in support of jailed Bashkir activist Fayil...

Dec 18, 2025 - Jailed Russian opposition activist Mikhail Kriger has been on a dry hunger strike since Friday in protest of his repeated placement in solitary confinement,...

A U.S. citizen jailed in Russia for kicking a police officer two years ago has complained of being tortured by his fellow inmates, local state-run media...

Zaryadye Hall, Moscow's newest and perhaps best hall accoustically, is shuttered like every other public building in the city.

Russian lawmakers voted unanimously on Thursday to ratify a strategic partnership agreement between Russia and North Korea that, among other things, provides...

Jan 18, 2026 - A Russian court has sentenced a 26-year-old Ukrainian woman to eight years in prison for allegedly plotting an explosion on the day that Russia claimed to have...

Jan 19, 2026 - In early 2024, the republic of Bashkortostan became the epicenter of some of the largest protests seen in Russia since the start of Moscow’s full-scale...

Russia said Monday it destroyed two Ukrainian drones in the western Belgorod region, with no casualties being reported.

The value of Russian imports from Belarus has surpassed that of goods arriving from Germany, news service Bloomberg reported Wednesday.