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Russia has successfully tested a country-wide alternative to the global internet, its government has announced.

It was a small explosion, played down by Russian officials — until they were forced to admit five people were dead and many more are at risk.

Russia’s troops and military vehicles marched across Moscow’s Red Square during the annual V-Day parade on Thursday. No aircraft were flown this year due to the weather, but the mightiest war machines were aplenty on the ground.

At least 41 people have died after a Sukhoi Superjet 100 en route from Moscow to Murmansk crash-landed shortly after takeoff, authorities confirmed.

All the stages have been passed for President Putin to sign the controversial 'sovereign internet' bill into law.

Russia has made reaffirming its presence in the Arctic a top goal

Thousands of people in Russia have protested against plans to introduce tighter restrictions on the internet.

As Donald Trump prepares to discuss denuclearisation with Kim Jong-un, Russia has revealed its list of US nuclear strike targets.

A tiny European country is about to be “absorbed” by Russia as the superpower prepares to make a geopolitical gamble. 

Despite years of Western sanctions, Russia will become the world’s fifth-largest economy as early as next year, surpassing Germany and the UK, multinational bank Standard Chartered said in its long-term growth forecasts.

Russia has revealed how it grew suspicious of a US man, who authorities have now charged as a spy, after he befriended several men and ignored attractive women.

Ukraine has accused Russia of ramming one of its boats off the coast of Crimea, amid rising naval tensions.

A Russian official said a student attacked a vocational college Wednesday in Crimea, a rampage that killed 17 other students and left more than 40 people wounded, before killing himself.

A Nigerian-born ‘prince’, who became a local celebrity in a small Russian steel-casting city after marrying a local woman and moving in, has died under murky circumstances, triggering a police investigation.

A decision to lift the suspension of Russia's anti-doping agency has been labelled "the greatest treachery against clean athletes".

However, while both states may oppose American hegemony, they pursue fundamentally different objectives for which neither would sacrifice itself to aid the other

FIX-it widgets, or weapons? Russia has sent at least four spidery drones into orbit, capable of flying about at will, and the US fears all may not be as its seems.
 

Eight kids from the Syrian “School for Late Heroes’ Children” have arrived to St. Petersburg and are now preparing themselves for studies in various Russian military schools, a popular daily reports.

Qatar, which has already negotiated the purchase of AK rifles, grenade launchers and anti-tank missiles from Russia, is also in talks to procure state-of-the-art S-400 systems, the Russian ambassador to the Gulf country has said.

Moscow has raised tariffs from 25 to 40 percent on some US imports in response to Washington’s move to impose tariffs on Russian steel and aluminum.