Leonid Yuzefovich is named best Russian writer of 2016
Russia's main literary prize, the Big Book prize, has been awarded to Leonid Yuzefovich for his novel The Winter Road, about the Russian Civil War. The author was presented with the award at a ceremony...
View ArticleRussian police official detained on suspicion of taking bribe
The head of a regional branch of the Main Internal Security Department of Russia’s Interior Ministry has been detained in St. Petersburg on suspicion of taking a bribe of 50 million rubles ($790,000),...
View ArticleKremlin hopes Russia and U.S. will find solution for Aleppo
The Kremlin expects that Russia and the United States will reach an agreement on settling the crisis in Syria’s Aleppo, the withdrawal of civilians from the city and deliveries of humanitarian cargoes,...
View ArticleTurkey mulling Eurasian integration as it rebuilds ties with Russia
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim's visit to Moscow on Dec. 5-6 demonstrated Ankara's intention not only to restore its relations with Moscow, which had been undermined by the downing of a Russian...
View ArticleU.S. Ambassador to Russia: Culture can ‘help us to put right our relations’
Culture and cultural ties can form the basis for an improvement in relations between Russia and the United States, Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak told the RIA Novosti news agency after a grand gala...
View ArticleRussia, ASEAN should focus on sharing knowledge and expertise - expert
In 2016, it became evident that Moscow clearly favors building trade alliances with ASEAN countries. Talks on a potential trade agreement between Russia (as a part of the Eurasian Economic Union or...
View ArticleMobile libraries now available in Moscow railway stations
'A Book for a Trip' launched on Dec. 8 at airports, railway terminals and other locations around Moscow, setting up virtual bookshelves to provide travelers with quality literature in Russian for the...
View ArticleLavrov: Military activities in Aleppo halted to let civilians leave city
Military activities in the Aleppo region were halted only to allow civilians leave the city, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial...
View ArticleMcLaren: Doping samples of 12 Russian 2014 Olympic medalists falsified
Doping samples collected from 12 Russian medalists of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi have been falsified, according to WADA Independent Commission’s report of Canadian sports law professor Richard...
View ArticleRussian android robot Fedor can screw in light bulbs and do splits
The Russian android robot called Fedor (Fyodor) can do the splits and screw in a light bulb, CEO of Android Technics Research and Production Association Alexander Permyakov told TASS on Dec. 9. Android...
View ArticleMonth in Russian kitchen: Holiday festivals and tasty fairs gifts
Journey to Christmas Should you happen to be in the Russian capital this month, don’t miss the Journey to Christmas festival — one of the highlights of Moscow’s holiday season. From Dec. 16 to Jan. 15,...
View ArticleRussian sappers clear of mines nearly 20 facilities in Aleppo over 24 hours
More than two dozen facilities in Aleppo have been cleared of mines by specialists from Russia’s international mine-clearing center over the past 24 hours, the chief of the main operations directorate...
View ArticleNATO chief: We do not want to isolate Russia
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stressed at a summit in Brussels that the alliance has no intention of isolating Russia and that its policy toward Moscow will be that of “dialogue and...
View ArticleA British poet’s trans-Siberian odyssey
As part of the UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature, a group of British artists took a journey many travelers only dream of — a trip along the Trans-Siberian Railway with stops in Yekaterinburg,...
View ArticleRussia sells $11 billion in Rosneft shares to Glencore and Qatar
The Russian government has unexpectedly decided to sell a 19.5-percent stake in the country's largest oil company, the state-owned behemoth Rosneft, to a consortium composed of Swiss trader Glencore...
View ArticleSports Ministry advises investigation of facts stated in McLaren report
The Russian Sports Ministry will advise the authorities concerned to look into all facts and circumstances mentioned in the second part of the report by the independent commission of the World...
View ArticleRed is the New Black: Seeing Russians as they really are
When reflecting on how best to describe my impressions of Russia and its people, I realised that my experience follows a trajectory like that of Piper Chapman in Netflix’s binge-streamed drama, Orange...
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