Russia's main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty of embezzlement and handed a five-year suspended sentence.
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Tech failure, human error main theories for Tu-154 crash, not terrorism – Russian transport minister
The main theories as to why the Tu-154 crashed off Sochi’s coast do not include a terrorist act, Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov said.
He added that the US too was upgrading its nuclear arsenal, including tactical nuclear weapons deployed in Europe.
Russia and Iran have been negotiating the supply of $10 billion worth of weapons and hardware to Tehran following the successful delivery of Russia’s S-300 air defense missile systems to the country in October.
The RS-28 Sarmat thermonuclear-armed ballistic missile was commissioned in 2011
Russia has developed and successfully tested radio-electronic weapons systems unmatched anywhere in the world, RIA Novosti reports, citing the manufacturer.
United Russia’s support among voters is at its lowest point this year, according to an August poll by Russia’s top independent pollster the Levada Center, in what has already been an uneasy year for the governing party.
Representatives for the Times could not be immediately reached for comment.
Russia will not compete at next month’s Paralympics in Rio after losing an appeal against a ban imposed for state-sponsored doping.
The Russian military has announced the delivery of new air defence missiles to Crimea, in a move scheduled before the latest tension with Ukraine.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has visited the most northerly military base in Russia’s Arctic. RT gives you a sneak peak at the country’s stronghold in the vast snowy expanses of the north.