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Russia’s space corporation, Roscosmos, has started a selection process for those who want a chance to go on the next-generation Federatsiya spacecraft to the Moon, Roscosmos First Deputy CEO Aleksandr Ivanov said in a news conference today. “The selection begins today and it will last till the end of the…
94 Migrants In Hungarian Detention, Who Broke Asylum Rules, Start Hunger Strike.
Russia said on Monday it hoped its anti-doping body RUSADA would have its suspension lifted in November, but the World Anti-Doping Agency said it still had “significant work” to do and that the road map was slipping at times. Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said Russia would “work diligently” towards a…
Turkey And Ukraine To Start Passport-Free Travel.
EU Extends Sanctions On Russia And Russian Officials.
Russia Says It’s Implementing U.N. North Korea Sanctions.
The Polish opposition party accused the party in power, the Law and Justice Party, of pushing to pull Poland out of the European Union, in response to the Polish Foreign Minister reacting angrily to the reelection of Donald Tusk to lead the European Council. “Surely, we must drastically lower the…
Benjamin Netanyahu recently traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian President Valdimir Putin, again. Having dodged a bullet with the election of Donald Trump, Netanyahu is now concerned with the Iranian presence in Syria after the Syrian Civil War subsides. Hezbollah has long said that after it defeats the Sunni…
Begun in Tomsk a year ago, now some 30 cities took part in the ‘Awakening’ action, aimed at ‘throwing off the shackles of winter, and going towards spring’, according to Tomsk organiser Lyubov Germanova. This year some 200 people took part, including 20 children. ‘This year we did not aim…
The Russian ruble has had a nice run over the past few months, surging from its low of around 80 to the USD, to a recent 58 handle. There have been many factors supporting the currency, not the least of which is a surging Russian economy, pulling its way out…