Russia delivers 6 tons of humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians in 24 hours
Officers from the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the opposing sides in Syria carried out six humanitarian missions in the Aleppo Governorate and the Latakia Governorate, delivering more than six...
View ArticleFSB: 16 terror attacks involving citizens of CIS states prevented in 2016
A total of 16 terror attacks involving citizens of CIS countries were prevented in Russia last year, Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov said at a session of the...
View ArticleHow catastrophes influenced the modernization of Russia's army air fleet
In the last six years Russia has modernized the technology of more than half of its Aerospace Forces. As of today, 55 percent of all the country’s planes are fresh off the assembly line and by 2020 the...
View ArticleThe alleged St. Petersburg suicide bomber hoped to build a house and marry
Akbarjon Jalilov, who is believed to be the culprit in the explosion in the St. Petersburg metro on April 3, intended to return to Kyrgyzstan two months before the terrorist attack. There, he wanted to...
View ArticleMoscow considering issue of providing $1 bln interstate credit to Belarus
Moscow is considering the issue of providing an interstate credit in the amount of up to $1 billion to Minsk in order to help prop up the country’s budget and the balance of payments, Russia’s Finance...
View ArticleRussian-made ‘eternal’ disc to store data for 100,000 years
A Russian-made disc is designed to store data for 100,000 years and will be resistant to fire, water and space radiation, the head of the Moscow-based laboratory of laser nano-structuring of glass told...
View ArticleTwo Russian soldiers killed in militant attack in Syria
Two Russian contract soldiers were killed in a militant attack in Syria while another one suffered severe wounds, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on April 11, TASS...
View ArticleRussian university among top 100 new colleges in the world
The Times Higher Education (THE) has published its sixth annual rating of young universities: THE Young University Rankings. For the first time, a Russian school features in the top 100, with Moscow's...
View ArticleRussians are world's biggest cat lovers
In most Russians, there is secretly a crazy cat lady, it seems. According to a survey by research company Dalia, 59 percent of Russians own at least one cat. Russia has the highest percentage of cat...
View ArticleCan Russia renounce Bashar al-Assad?
The situation in Syria has again escalated. After the chemical attack in the Idlib Province on April 4, which the U.S. and other Western countries accuse Bashar al-Assad of committing (Damascus and...
View ArticleTough talk on the cards as Lavrov and Tillerson prepare to meet
The U.S. Secretary of State’s visit to Moscow scheduled for April 11-12 may inspire little confidence but it’s generating big interest in Russia. Experts aren’t expecting any major diplomatic...
View ArticleInternational Forum SkyService 2017
The International Forum SkyService 2017 will take place on April 26–27, 2017, in Gostiny Dvor, Moscow (4, Ilinka Street). The main theme of the forum this year is «Civil aviation services». The...
View ArticleU.S. Secretary of State Tillerson arrives on first visit to Russia
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in Moscow, his plane has landed at the Vnukovo-2 airport. This is Tillerson’s first visit to Russia as Secretary of State in the Trump administration,...
View ArticleWhat will the disgraced General Flynn say about Trump?
People are sardonically joking that Trump's former National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn, has a new job opportunity – as a whistleblower who will tell Congress and the American public...
View ArticleBlame game: Moscow says more chemical attacks planned against Syria
Russia has data that new provocations are planned in Syria with the goal of putting the blame on Damascus for allegedly using chemical weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters after...
View ArticleThe world’s largest flower globe created in Russia
Early April in Moscow saw a new world record for the largest globe ever made out of fresh flowers and plants. The frame of the four-meter objet d’art is built of wooden structures representing the...
View ArticleChina snubs Russian request for trilateral defense meeting with India
China has rejected a Russian request to hold a trilateral meeting at level of defense ministers with India in Moscow, sources close to the Indian and Russian government told RBTH on April 12. The...
View ArticlePutin: Those who joined ISIS may lose Russian citizenship
A decision to grant the Russian citizenship may be reversed if an individual to whom it was granted has joined the Islamic State terrorist group outlawed in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said in an...
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