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British foreign minister Dominic Raab called Russia’s expulsion of EU diplomats a “crude attempt” to distract from the country’s targeting of opposition leaders, saying on Friday that London stood in solidarity with its “European friends”.more

Russia has expelled three diplomats from Germany, Sweden and Poland for joining protests in support of opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who was jailed earlier this week.more

Russia's two-dose SARS-CoV-2 vaccine cuts 91.6 percent. the risk of symptomatic COVID-19 - indicates the current preliminary analysis of the results of the clinical trial, which was published by the Lancet weekly.more

Russian doctor who saved Putin enemy Alexei Navalny from Novichok poisoning found dead after 'sudden heart attack' ·more

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was sentenced to two and a half years in prison over probation violation charges. The ruling comes two weeks after Navalny was arrested upon his return to Moscow from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlinmore

A 16-story underground bunker, a wine shop with a window in the rock overlooking the sea, two aqua-disco clubs, a tunnel leading to the beach - these are just some new details about the palace near Gelendzhik, which, according to oppositionist Alexei Navalny, is the residence of Vladimir Putin, built with funds from corruption.more

"Our quota is 120 comments a day," a former employee of the Russian "troll factory" told Radio Svoboda. He explained that there are different departments in the office, for example responsible for Facebook and YouTube. They work 11 hours a day and earn about 40,000. rubles (approx. PLN 2 thousand).more

In Russia, yesterday (January 24) was the warmest day in winter - in the evening the temperature in Moscow was 2.2 degrees Celsius. Earlier, meteorologists reported that 2020 turned out to be the warmest in Russia in the entire history of meteorological observations.more

Hundreds of people have been detained as police try to stop nationwide protests in Russia in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny.more

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, condemned the detention of Alexei Navalny by the Russian authorities and called for the release of the oppositionist. "Detaining political opponents is contrary to Russia's international obligations," said the head of the European Commission. The British Ministry of Foreign Affairs also referred to the matter. more

The Russian opposition leader was detained immediately after landing in Moscow from Germany.more

In 2020, they were added to the Russian army, incl. new ships, missile systems and modernized tanks. New weapons are being deployed in strategic regions of the country. Work is underway on the promising weapons announced by President Vladimir Putin.more

George Blake, the former MI6 officer and one of the Cold War's most infamous double agents, has died aged 98, Russian media has reported. Over nine years, the Soviet spy handed over information that led to the betrayal of at least 40 MI6 agents in Eastern Europe.more

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has joined a growing list of public figures targeted by pranksters posing as climate activist Greta Thunberg.more

The Polish embassy in Moscow has issued a statement condemning attempts "to falsify the NKVD's responsibility for the Katyn Massacre" at a conference on Polish-Russian relations held near Moscow in November.more

The United States officially pulled out of another arms control pact with Russia on Sunday, marking the end of a six-month notification process informing Moscow, U.S. officials told Fox News.more

The annual G20 summit began yesterday in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. The main topic of the meeting is the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Russian President Vladimir Putin told G20 leaders that Russia is ready to provide Sputnik V vaccine to other countries.more

The first visit by a UK government minister to Moscow since 2017 will go ahead next week in what is being presented as an attempt to maintain a dialogue with Russia while stopping short of a normalisation of UK-Russian relations.more

Next week, the Russian coronavirus vaccine is expected to reach an important “milestone”, enabling Hungary to buy small quantities of the vaccine from December and large quantities from January, the foreign minister said on Facebook. more

Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to step down early next year amid growing concerns about health, the British daily The Sun reported, citing Russian sources.more

In Moscow, hotels have included the rental of rooms for remote work - for a working day, with appropriate equipment and cheaper than the cost of accommodation in a hotel. The offer has appeared in more than 30 hotels in the Russian capital and has already aroused some interest.more

The UK has announced it will enforce asset freezes and travel bans against two Russian GRU officers and the GRU’s military intelligence unit 26165 – codenamed APT28 and Fancy Bear – which were responsible for the 2015 cyber attacks on Germany’s Parliament.more

Poland supports the statements of the US, Canadian and British governments pointing to the responsibility of GRU Russian military intelligence officers for numerous cyber attacks - you can read in the statement of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs published today.more

Britain and the United States on Monday condemned what they said were a litany of malicious cyberattacks orchestrated by Russian military intelligence, including attempts to disrupt next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.more

Yesterday, sanctions against six people and one entity from Russia entered into force in the EU for involvement in the attempt to poison the leader of the local opposition, Alexei Navalny. They were covered by, among others director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and deputy defense ministers of Russia.more