Russia offered bounty to kill UK soldiers
Moscow accused of trying to give money to the Taliban as part of its campaign to destabilise America and its allies Jamie Doward Sat 27 Jun 2020 Vladimir Putin watches […]
Russia Temporarily Authorizes Use of Aviifavir Against Covid 19
Source: Bloomberg Russia’s Health Ministry granted a temporary registration certificate to the country’s first Covid-19 medicine, a generic version of the Japanese flu drug Avigan, the country’s wealth fund said […]
US and Russia blocking UN plans for a global ceasefire amid crisis
Resolution strongly supported by dozens of countries, human rights groups and charities Simon Tisdall Sun 19 Apr 2020 The US fears the measure could hinder its ability to prosecute military […]
Russia is about to face its biggest test yet in Syria
Assad has been loyal to Putin, and Putin to Assad, but the Syrian people are growing poorer by the day Robert Fisk @indyvoices 17 hours ago An American reader tired […]
Is Russia running a coronavirus disinformation campaign?
Source: Euronews The Russian news outfit Sputnik claims “very smart biologists and pharmacists” in Latvia invented the new COVID-19 coronavirus. Other sources close to the Kremlin say it was made in the British military’s Porton Down facilities. Russia observers from the European Commission have so far analyzed 80 different reports […]
Putin approves changes allowing him to stay in power until 2036
Mar 10, 2020 – By Andrew Osborn and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened the door to constitutional changes that would allow him […]
Russia’s Putin wants traditional marriage and God in constitution
Source: BBC Russian President Vladimir Putin wants marriage to be defined as the union of a man and woman in a revised constitution, ruling out gay marriage. It is among […]
Russia repatriates orphans of suspected Islamic State fighters in Syria
Russia repatriates 26 children held at Syria’s al-Hawl refugee camp, as Kremlin official says plans are to bring dozens more home By MEE and agencies Published date: 7 February 2020 […]
How shared Islamic identities boost Russia-Gulf ties
Diana Galeeva January 08, 2020 Under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, especially since 2013, Russia has used “religious soft power” as a pragmatic tool toward the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states […]
Trump will come last in the big Mediterranean gas race if Turkey and Russia get their way in Libya
Just like Syria before it, losing Tripoli to the Russians and the Turks will get the US nowhere in terms of maintaining a significant stake over energy supplies into Europe […]
Trump Imposes Sanctions to Stop North Stream 2 – but it is too late
by Dave Keating, Contributor Donald Trump last night signed into law sanctions from the U.S. Congress against companies involved in constructing a new gas pipeline between Russia and Germany. But […]
Islam and Orthodox Christianity Have the Same Values, Putin Says
Source: The Moscow Times Orthodox Christianity and Islam are based on the same fundamental values, President Vladimir Putin said in an address to a religious conference in Kyrgyzstan. The conference, […]
Saudi visit signals Putin’s growing Middle East influence
Oct 14, 2019 – swissinfo.ch By Olesya Astakhova and Stephen Kalin RIYADH (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin signalled Moscow’s growing Middle East clout on Monday on his first visit to […]
Cypriot to Russian Church: keep out of breakaway north
Source: Associated Press By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Ties between the Orthodox Church of Cyprus and its Russian counterpart frayed Friday over a series of services conducted by […]
Nearly 25000 Russians to perform Hajj this year
Source: IBNA According to Russian Hajj tour operators, the quota has almost been filled, according to islam.ru website. Muslims from about 64 regions of Russia will go to hajj this […]
Russian police detain Crimean Tatar protesters on Moscow’s Red Square
Jul 10, 2019 By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police detained seven Crimean Tatars on Moscow’s Red Square on Wednesday after dispersing a demonstration that had aimed to […]
Putin says US-Russia relations are getting ‘worse and worse’
Source: ET “They (our relations) are going downhill, they are getting worse and worse,” Putin told the Mir TV channel, according to a Kremlin transcript. “The current administration has approved, in my opinion, several dozen decisions on sanctions against Russia in recent years.” The Russian leader contrasted Moscow’s troubled relationship […]
Putin: Children to benefit from reading Bible, Quran, Torah
Source: ABNA Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that reading the Bible, Quran and Torah would prove useful for children since all religions are based on humanistic ideas that will […]
Putin calls for compromise over Orthodox cathedral standoff
Source: Associated Press By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a compromise Thursday to ease tensions over a plan to build a […]
Russia jails Dane for six years in Jehovah’s Witnesses purge
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Wednesday found a Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses guilty of organizing a banned extremist group and jailed him for […]
