Tag: Russia government
Russian President Putin gets 2nd COVID-19 vaccine shot
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he got his second COVID-19 vaccine shot, three weeks after getting the first dose.
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NATO warns Russia over troop buildup close to Ukraine
BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Moscow on Tuesday not to push its troop buildup along the frontier with Ukraine, and expressed...
Swedish sports body hacked by Russians, officials say
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The organization that oversees Sweden's national sports federations was hacked by Russian military intelligence in 2017-18, officials said Tuesday, in a...
Putin foe Navalny says he sues prison for withholding Quran
MOSCOW — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Tuesday he was suing his prison for withholding the Quran, which he intended to study...
Russia says troop buildup near Ukraine is a response to NATO
MOSCOW — Russia's defense minister said Tuesday that the country's massive military buildup in the west was part of readiness drills amid what he...
Russia tries to ban Kosovo flag at UN — unsuccessfully
UNITED NATIONS — Russia tried for the first time Tuesday to prevent Kosovo’s representative from speaking at the U.N. Security Council with the country’s...
Ukraine leader’s request to talk to Putin ignored: official
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked for a phone call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin about the Russian troop buildup across...
Czech foreign minister fired in government reshuffle
PRAGUE — Czech Republic’s foreign minister was fired Monday in a government reshuffle less than six months before the parliamentary election.
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Russia’s FM in Egypt for talks on trade and Ethiopia’s dam
CAIRO — The foreign ministers of Egypt and Russia discussed trade and other ties between the two nations Monday, with Egypt’s top diplomat urging...
Apartment of Russian investigative journalist raided
MOSCOW — Russian authorities took a prominent investigative journalist in for questioning after searching his apartment, and the news website he works for said...
