Russia is pulling troops back from an area near its border with Ukraine, in a move which will cool tensions in the region and also with the west. Tens of […]
Opinion | Will Anything Stop Putin’s Pet Project?
After the imprisonment this month of the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, punishing Russia is back on the agenda. On Monday, European Union foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on Russian […]
Russia ‘boiling us like a frog’ with cyber attacks warns ex-Special Forces chief
Russia is "boiling us like a frog" and "killing our way of life", the former head of British Special Forces says. The Kremlin is playing the long game to wear […]
Tensions mount as Iran seizes South Korean tanker and ramps up nuke development
Tensions are running high between Iran and South Korea after Iranian Revolutionary Guards boarded a South Korean chemical tanker, the MT Hankuk Chemi, and took its 23 crew prisoner. According […]
Russia claims its Covid-19 vaccine is ‘highly effective’ against mutant
Russia has claimed its coronavirus vaccine is able to treat the new mutant strain of the virus. The country claims its Sputnik V jab was the first registered worldwide and […]
Girl, 3, freezes to death after ‘being left in -15C hall during parent’s party’
A three-year-old girl who died of hypothermia after spending the night in an unheated corridor with outside temperatures of -15C had been sleepwalking, claims her mother. Angelina Kuleshova was found […]
Beauty queen soldier fired as ‘National Guard pageant win made others jealous’
A Russian soldier who won a beauty pageant in Vladimir Putin's National Guard claims "envy" is behind her recent firing. Mum-of-one Anna Khramtsova, 32, beat more than 1,000 entrants to […]
Babysitter decapitated boy, 6, and left body in kitchen as mum gave birth
A drugged-up babysitter beheaded a six-year-old boy as his mum gave birth, according to police. Sergey Podgornov, 47, was left to care for the child by the mum’s partner in […]
Seven people dead after drinking hand sanitiser when alcohol ran out at party
Seven people have died from poisoning after they started drinking hand sanitiser when they ran out of booze at a party. Local reports from Russia claim that nine people were […]
Grave-digger rapes and murders schoolgirl, 11, after being released from prison
A cemetery worker released from jail for murder nine months ago has been detained raping and strangling an 11-year-old, say law enforcement. Artem Osipov, 40, confessed to sexually attacking and […]