Russia says it will make changes to the doctrine that sets out the circumstances in which it might use nuclear weapons. What might that mean?
September 02, 2024
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has freed at least 13 more prisoners convicted in political cases, including a veteran trade unionist and a former state TV
August 21, 2024Russia moved extra tanks, artillery and rocket systems to its southern Kursk region and imposed anti-terrorism measures in border areas as it battled a shock incursion by
August 09, 2024Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia said on Thursday that she felt both joy and bitterness over a Cold War-style prisoner swap that saw the release of leading Russian
August 08, 2024Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has freed at least 10 political prisoners, rights campaigners said on Thursday, including a veteran opposition figure suffering
July 04, 2024
An exiled Russian journalist accused the authorities on Wednesday of breaking new legal ground to intimidate their critics after a court labelled him and his wife
July 03, 2024U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich will stand trial for espionage in Russia on Wednesday in a court whose proceedings are classified as a state secret.
June 25, 2024
Russia's exiled chief rabbi accused the authorities of leaving Jews and other citizens vulnerable to attacks like Sunday's gun rampages by turning the state's
July 03, 2024
Vladimir Putin has won six more years in the Kremlin with a landslide victory in an election where he faced no serious competition.
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will seek another six years in the Kremlin by standing in an election in March where his victory is widely assumed to be a
April 26, 2024
The husband of a Russian-American journalist being held in a Russian prison on suspicion of violating Moscow’s law on “foreign agents” urged the U.S. government on
April 26, 2024
Russia's parliament has passed the last stage of a law to withdraw Moscow's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which now goes to President
July 02, 2024
Russia may be paving the way to conduct a nuclear test, a move that would sharply raise tensions with the West and likely prompt other world powers to resume
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia has successfully tested its new Burevestnik missile.
April 26, 2024
Russia and its ally Belarus are carrying out exercises to practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons.
June 11, 2024
A large crowd protested in Armenia's capital Yerevan on Sunday against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, led by a Christian cleric who announced the start of four days of
June 25, 2024
Russian forces have started the first stage of exercises ordered by President Vladimir Putin to simulate preparation for the launch of tactical nuclear weapons, the
July 02, 2024
Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov was convicted of treason and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony on Tuesday in the latest of several cases against experts
May 21, 2024
Exiled Russian opposition leader Yulia Navalnaya urged supporters on Tuesday to keep up the fight against President Vladimir Putin, describing him on the day of
May 07, 2024
A third man has been detained in a bribery investigation centring on Deputy Russian Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, the Moscow court service said on Thursday.
May 09, 2024
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday his country was facing grave threats internally and externally that had required it to change its security posture
May 10, 2024
The judge in the trial of two leading Russian theatre figures accused of "justifying terrorism" approved a request from prosecutors on Thursday to ban journalists
June 13, 2024
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