The surprise victory by a ragtag army in August 1920, remembered by Poles as “the Miracle of the Vistula”, spared millions from the horrors of Marxism-Leninism - columnist Daniel Hannan writes in "The Sunday Telegraph".more
Britain's Royal Navy and NATO allies have escorted nine Russian navy warships during heightened levels of activity in the waters close to the United Kingdom, the navy said in a statement on Wednesday.more
Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko said Saturday his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had pledged "comprehensive security assistance," as protests over last week's elections continue to sweep the country, per state news agency Belta.more
Russia has shown recklessness in approving the COVID-19 vaccine for use before the necessary clinical trials are carried out, British experts warn. British drug specialist Ayfer Ali called it "the great population experiment".more
German Health Minister Jens Spahn on Wednesday said Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine had not been sufficiently tested, adding the aim was to have a safe product rather than just being first to start vaccinating people.more
Russia has approved the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine, Vladimir Putin has claimed. He said one of his two daughters is among those who have already had a shot of the new vaccine.more
The amount of ice in the Arctic in July this year. was the smallest in the history of conducting observations, said Roman Wilfand, the head of the Russian Gidromietcentr center. Earlier, meteorologists had warned that the temperature in the Arctic was breaking heat records.more
A former British ambassador to Turkey and a career Whitehall insider has been named as the next chief of MI6 to replace Sir Alex Younger, who is due to step aside towards the end of the year.more
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday slammed Raab’s statement as “vague and contradictory” and called on the U.K. to “produce facts” supporting the allegations.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced today that the UK is setting an example of caution to the world towards Russia. He stressed that his country had not decided to Brexit due to pressure from Moscow.more
British Transport Minister Grant Shapps said Wednesday there was no evidence that Russia was interfering in the campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum on Britain's exit from the EU. As he added, due to the lack of evidence, an investigation into this matter is unnecessarymore
Russia meddled in the 2014 referendum in Scotland, and the British government did not sufficiently explore the issue of possible Kremlin interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum, the British parliament's intelligence and security committee said in the report.more
The Kremlin on Friday "categorically" rejected allegations of interfering in a 2019 U.K. election and said the claims will negatively impact Russia's relations with Britain.more
Hackers supported by the Russian state are trying to steal the Covid-19 vaccine and research results from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world - the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) said on Thursday.more
Russia almost certainly tried to interfere in the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom in 2019, by illegally acquiring secret documents about the planned free trade agreement with the US and disseminating them on the Internet - the government in London said.more
The Kremlin has said it will take countermeasures against the UK after the British government imposed sanctions on Monday against senior Russian officials including a close ally of Vladimir Putin.more
The number of coronavirus infections in Russia today reached 681,251 after 6,736 new infections were detected in the last 24 hours. According to the operational staff, 134 people have died within the last 24 hours. 10 161 people have died in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic.more
Russian President Vladimir Putin just got what he’s wanted from a recent vote: the veneer of a popular mandate on a plan that allows him to stay in power far beyond his current term limit - and could essentially make him president for life.more
Misinformation on the coronavirus spread by Russian and Chinese authorities and calculated on the devastation of democracy is gaining more social coverage in Europe than the prestigious press, according to a report from the Oxford Internet Institute published yesterdaymore
The Russian embassy in the US and Taliban representatives denied at the weekend - in separate statements - that the Russian special services would offer the Taliban money for attacks on American soldiers. An article on such a proposal was published in the New York Times.more
American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.more
On June 20, 38 degrees Celsius was recorded in the city of Verkhoyansk in the Republic of Yakutia in the Asian part of Russia, called the North Cold Pole, reported RIA Novosti. This may be the highest temperature recorded after the polar circle.more
Russian-Polish relations are at their lowest point, which is against both countries’ interests, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday on Russia’s Channel One.more
The United Kingdom said on Thursday that China, Russia and Iran were looking to exploit weaknesses shown by the coronavirus outbreak, amid suggestions Beijing had used the crisis to push through new security legislation for Hong Kong.more
