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Leading Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny says he believes President Vladimir Putin was responsible for his poisoning.

Voters across Russia are casting their ballots in dozens of local elections that are seen as a big test for the ruling pro-Kremlin United Russia party.

The first batch of Russia’s pioneering coronavirus formula Sputnik V has been approved for public use and has already been placed into circulation, the Ministry of Health in Moscow has announced.

European countries have threatened sanctions on Russia over the alleged nerve agent attack on opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but a concerted decision will be tough to reach given the interests at stake.

Unidentified men in black on Monday morning grabbed Maria Kolesnikova, a leading Belarusian opposition figure, and pushed her into a minibus, her campaign team reported, citing witnesses.

Some foreign journalists deported, accreditation of local reporters revoked

The doctors who first treated Moscow protest leader Alexey Navalny in Siberia have claimed it's beyond any doubt that they saved his life. They added that the German team which took him to Berlin agreed with this assessment.

Russian doctors say leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny - who supporters believe was poisoned - remains too ill to be moved to Germany for treatment.

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in hospital suffering from suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman has said.

Protesters in Belarus have gathered outside a prison to mark the birthday of the jailed husband of the country's main opposition figure as anger mounts over a disputed election.

virus cases have soared to more than 220,000 making it one of the hardest hit nations, as Putin goes ahead with lifting lockdown measures.

The president appeared outside the Kremlin walls to praise the Soviet effort in what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.

Two of those health care workers are dead, and one remains hospitalized.

They're still baking at the Factory of Happiness.

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases has grown by 771 in Russia on Thursday, marking the biggest single-day increase in patients since the start of the outbreak.

Moscow is rolling out a mobile phone app and scannable bar codes to check whether people are adhering to strict isolation rules during lockdown, an official said Wednesday.

Vladimir Putin clearly has no plans to retire after a Russian court approved a law that could keep him power well into the next decade.

Constitutional changes could make Putin the longest-ruling leader in Russia’s modern history, surpassing Stalin

It’s been the subject of much internet debate – does the Russian leader use a body double? Now he has finally 

Russia has appealed against the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) decision to ban it from all major sporting events for four years.