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Thirty-six people have been detained at an unsanctioned march of right-wing extremists in Moscow, news portal ovdinfo.org reported on Wednesday. The nationalist demonstrators gathered in two locations in the Russian capital without…

Moscow authorities have deported 88 foreign nationals who violated quarantine measures imposed on them as a precaution against coronavirus, the RIA news agency cited Moscow’s deputy mayor as saying on Friday. ALSO READ: Mexico confirms…

Russian police forcibly detained nearly 700 people attending a protest in Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections, including prominent activist Lyubov Sobol, after authorities warned the demonstration was illegal. Police removed…

At least thirteen people were killed when a Russian plane exploded into flames mid-air as it made an emergency landing at Moscow's main international airport, local media reports claim. A female flight attendant was reportedly among those…

MOSCOW said on Friday its forces may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa last month. There was no initial independent confirmation that Baghdadi had been killed. The US-led…

US President Donald Trump attacked what he called a "phony story" on Thursday after a report that he is under investigation for possible obstruction of justice by the special counsel probing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US…

RUSSIAN police detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday as he tried to leave his home ahead of a planned anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow, his wife said, but she called for the demonstration to go ahead all the same. Navalny, who…

RUSSIAN jets based in Iran on Tuesday struck targets inside Syria, the Russian defence ministry said, after Moscow deployed aircraft to an Iranian air force base to widen its campaign in Syria. The ministry said the strikes, by…