Image by KSAF AGH Krakowska Studencka Agencja Fotograficzna AGH The Polish government in power has long suspected Russia was behind the plane crash in 2010 that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. The Law and Justice Party has claimed explosives brought down the aircraft and have exhumed the…
Image by Harland Quarrington Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that patriotic Russian hackers may have conducted cyber attacks against nations at odds with the Kremlin but that the Russian government had not participated in these activities. He made the comments at the Russian Economic Forum in St Petersburg when…
Image by kremlin.ru Because of radical Islamic terrorism, your religious affiliation has become an existential issue across the globe. Whether you are a Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or Jew can literally mean life or death, no matter what country you are in. Western nations are not excluded from this scourge….
Image by Boris Chimit-Dorzhie Ukraine’s state energy company said on Wednesday it had won three crucial preliminary rulings in a Stockholm court over multi-billion-dollar claims Moscow and Kiev have against each in a bitter gas dispute. Naftogaz and Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom are waging a furious legal battle in…
In Tit-For-Tat Measure, Moscow Expels Two Estonian Diplomats.
The Montenegrin Prime Minister, Dusko Markovic, reacted in parliament to the ban of a senior Montenegrin ruling party official, Miodrag Vukovic, from transiting Russia on the way to Belarus, calling the detention of the official ‘destructive and primitive.’ Vukovic was detained at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow while transiting the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin today visited the Rogozhsky spiritual center of the Old Believers in Moscow, the first head of state to visit the cloister in 350 years. The Old Believers, or Old Ritualists, split from the Orthodox Church in 1666 over a change to Christian rituals that had been…
Image by Russian Ministry of Defence A Russian warship and submarine have fired four cruise missiles from the Mediterranean at Islamic State targets near the Syrian city of Palmyra, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The strike, which Russian news agencies said was the first of its kind since November,…
Image by Vladimircaraedit The tiny former Soviet republic of Moldova expelled five Russian diplomats today as tensions between Chisinau and Moscow heat up quickly. The last few years have seen high drama unfold in the relationship between the two nations. Last year the Moldova people rose up against the theft…
Image by Александр Мотин Sixteen people were killed when a severe thunderstorm hit Moscow and the region around the Russian capital on Monday, officials say. Hundreds of trees were toppled, and about 150 people needed medical help. It was the deadliest storm in the city for more than 100 years,…