EU relations with Russia are not improving, on the contrary, they are becoming increasingly tense, said the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell today, ahead of the informal videoconference of EU chiefs of diplomacy.more
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny risks cardiac arrest "any minute" as his health has rapidly deteriorated, doctors warned Saturday, urging immediate access to Russia's most famous prisoner.more
British warships will sail for the Black Sea in May amid rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia, the Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing senior naval sources.more
Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.more
Vaccinations against Covid-19 in Russia slowed down in March due to declining vaccine supplies to many regions. Where there is no lack of it, another problem can be seen: low motivation to vaccinate and a sense of not being threatened - assesses the independent analyst Aleksandr Dragan.more
The first vaccine against Covid-19 for animals, CarniVacCov, has been registered in Russia, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) reported. The vaccine is intended for fur animals, dogs and cats.more
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Monday he feared being placed in solitary confinement after being accused of several minor infractions of prison rules.more
The European Union does not recognize the decree that classifies the greater part of Crimea and Sevastopol as the border territory of the Russian Federation, said spokeswoman for the head of EU diplomacy Nabil Massrali in Brussels.more
Relations between the US and Russia are "very bad," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said after the US president harshly announced during an interview that "Putin will pay the price for interfering with the US elections." more
Russia has condemned the decision by the UK government to boost its arsenal of nuclear weapons, saying the move would harm international stability.more
European Union officials are considering launching negotiations to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Reuters reported Monday, citing EU diplomatic and official sources.more
The United Kingdom considers Nord Stream 2 a threat to Europe's energy security and will raise its objections to this project, assured Deputy Foreign Minister Wendy Morton during the debate in the House of Commons on the gas pipeline.more
Four online publications linked to Russian intelligence agencies have been spreading false or misleading information about coronavirus vaccines, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an official at the US Department of State’s Global Engagement Center.more
A senior European Medicines Agency (EMA) official urged European Union members on Sunday (7 March) to refrain from granting national approvals for Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V while the agency reviews its safety and effectiveness.more
The vast majority of Poles do not want the government to buy COVID-19 vaccines from China or Russia - according to a poll conducted by the Pollster Research Institute for "Super Express". more
The US and the UK are considering introducing new sanctions against Russia - for using banned chemical weapons against the oppositionist Alexei Navalny. The possible options include: hitting the oligarchs or restrictions on Russian public debt.more
EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has started a rolling review of Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac), a COVID-19 vaccine1 developed by Russia’s Gamaleya National Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology. The EU applicant for this medicine is R-Pharm Germany GmbH.more
The case of a Pole who is serving a sentence for espionage in a Russian prison camp has been treated as a priority by the consul in Moscow from the very beginning; the consul provides the inmates with all possible help - the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs.more
A Boeing 777 aircraft operated by Rossiya Airlines made an emergency landing in Moscow at 4:44 a.m. local time due to engine trouble, less than a week after a similar aircraft flown by United Airlines suffered a dramatic blowout over Denver, shedding debris onto neighborhoods below.more
Expelled from Sweden in early February, the Russian diplomat was a spy, reports the daily Dagens Nyheter. According to the newspaper, 35-year-old Dmitry Volkov worked for the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SWR).more
Foreign ministers from EU countries have agreed to place further sanctions against Russian officials over the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.more
Russia is ready to sever relations with the European Union, "if it comes to it on the initiative of the EU," the Russian Foreign Ministry said, commenting on an earlier media statement by the head of diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov.more
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, announced that the expulsion of Polish, Swedish and German diplomats from Russia was related to the actions taken by foreign representatives against illegal protests in Russia.more
