By AP and published by Yahoo!News Moscow – Assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday (Mar.22) and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 60 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on
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Russian, Belarusian athletes not part of Paris Olympics opening ceremony
By AP and published by Yahoo!News Geneva – Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to take part in the traditional parade at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, the IOC said on Tuesday (Mar. 19). The opening ceremony on July 26 will see thousands of athletes travel on boats down the
Read morePutin wins Russia election in landslide with no serious competition
By Reuters and published by CNA Moscow – President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia’s election yesterday (Mar. 17), cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said showed Moscow had been right to stand up to the West and send its troops into Ukraine. For Putin, a
Read morePutin says Russian nuclear weapons ‘more advanced’ than in US
By AFP and published by CNA Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday (Mar. 13) lauded Moscow’s nuclear arsenal and warned that he was ready to deploy the weapons if Russia’s sovereignty was threatened. The Kremlin has touted its nuclear prowess throughout its two-year offensive in Ukraine, last month warning Western countries that there
Read moreYulia Navalnaya, Russia’s steely new opposition politician out to avenge husband’s death
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News London – Before the shock death of her husband Alexei in a grim Arctic prison last week, Yulia Navalnaya had always played down the idea she would one day take over as leader of Russia’s opposition. But on Monday, she vowed to continue his fight. In a video
Read moreRussian anti-war rockers in Israel after deportation from Thailand under likely Kremlin pressure
By AP and published by ABC News Tel Aviv, Israel – A dissident Russian rock band angered by Moscow’s war in Ukraine has arrived in Israel after being deported from Thailand under suspected pressure from the Kremlin, the performers said today (Feb. 1). The seven members of the band Bi-2 were arrested last week
Read moreSrettha to visit China, Saudi Arabia next week
PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin will be visiting both China and Saudi Arabia next week where he will be attending the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the former and Asean-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit at the latter, Matichon newspaper said today (Oct. 14). Srettha will be in Beijing during Oct. 16-19 and
Read moreZelenskyy, at Security Council, lashes out at Russia but avoids face-to-face encounter
By AP and publihsed by Yahoo!News United Nations – Ukraine’s president accused Russia of waging “a criminal and unprovoked aggression” that undermines all norms of war and the UN charter on Wednesday (Sep. 20) at a meeting of the UN Security Council that started with a clash over his speech President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told
Read moreNobel Foundation withdraws invitation to Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend ceremonies
By AP and published by ABC News Stockholm – The Nobel Foundation on Saturday (Sep. 2) withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision announced a day earlier “provoked strong reactions.” Several Swedish lawmakers said on Friday they would boycott this
Read moreRussia’s Luna-25 smashes into moon in failure
By Reuters and published by CNA Moscow – Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space programme. Russia’s state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had
Read moreUS to send Ukraine cluster bombs, Nato makes membership pledge
By Reuters and published by CNA THE United States announced on Friday (July 7) that it would supply Ukraine with widely-banned cluster munitions for its counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces, and Nato’s leader said the military alliance would unite at a summit next week on how to bring Ukraine closer to joining. Rights groups
Read moreRussia says West enabled drone attacks near Moscow
By AFP and published by CNA Moscow – Moscow said Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory would “not be possible” without US and Nato help, escalating its rhetoric after reporting it had downed five drones near the capital on Tuesday (July 4). Ukraine meanwhile accused Russia of planning “dangerous provocations” at the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia
Read moreWagner mutiny exposes risks for China’s deep Russian ties
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News Beijing – As news broke on Saturday that mercenary Wagner troops were careering towards Moscow in a short-lived rebellion, several businessmen from southern China began frantically calling factories to halt shipments of goods destined for Russia. While the mutiny – the biggest test of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
Read moreAborted mutiny sends volatile rouble to 15-month low
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News THE rouble sank to its lowest in nearly 15 months against the dollar on Monday (June 26) in one of its most volatile sessions this year as investors responded for the first time to an aborted mutiny by armed mercenaries in Russia over the weekend. Mercenaries led by
Read moreWagner halts revolt but Putin seen as weakened; Moscow maintains security measures
By AFP and published by CNA Moscow – Wagner mercenaries headed back to their base on Sunday (June 25) after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow their leader to avoid treason charges and accept exile in neighbouring Belarus. The agreement ended an extraordinary crisis – the threat that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private army would
Read moreRussian mercenary boss Prigozhin in standoff with Russian army amid ‘armed mutiny’
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News London – Rebellious Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday (June 24) he had taken control of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don as part of an attempt to oust the military leadership amid what the authorities said was an armed mutiny. Prigozhin demanded that Russian Defence Minister
Read morePutin ponders a question: Should Russia try to take Kyiv again?
By Reuters and published by US News & World Report Moscow – President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday (June 13) that any further mobilisation would depend on what Russia wanted to achieve in the war in Ukraine, adding that he faced a question only he could answer – should Russia try to take Kyiv
Read moreUkraine war comes to Moscow as drones strike both capitals
By Reuters and published by Euractiv.com Moscow/Kyiv – Ukrainian drones struck Moscow on Tuesday (May 30) but were neutralised, Russia said in what one politician called the worst attack on the capital since World War Two, while Kyiv was also hit by air for the third time in 24 hours. Since Russia sent troops
Read moreRussia acknowledges retreat north of Bakhmut, Wagner boss calls it a ‘rout’
By Reuters and published by Cyprus Mail Kyiv/Kostiantynivka, Ukraine – Moscow acknowledged on Friday (May 12) that its forces had fallen back north of Ukraine’s battlefield city of Bakhmut after a new Ukrainian offensive, in a retreat that the head of Russia’s Wagner private army called a rout. The setback for Russia, which follows
Read moreBinance faces US probe of possible Russian sanctions violations – Bloomberg News
By Reuters – published by US News & World Report and NBC News THE US Justice Department is investigating whether Binance Holdings was illegally used to let Russians skirt US sanctions and move money through the cryptocurrency exchange, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Meanwhile the head of the
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