Russian police battle anti-Putin protesters – Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian riot police beat protesters about the head with batons and detained more than 400 on Sunday after clashes broke out at a Moscow rally by thousands of people against Vladimir...
View ArticleThe Challenges of “Modernizing” Russia
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View ArticlePolice search Putin opponents’ homes before rally – Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police and investigators searched the homes of several prominent opponents of President Vladimir Putin on Monday, one day before a protest opposition leaders hope will draw...
View ArticleSpace station crew launches into orbit – Technology & science – Space –...
Three veteran space travelers from three different countries blast off for the International Space Station to begin a months-long mission on the orbiting laboratory. Continue reading →
View ArticleBP forced by Russian court to pay $3bn damages over failed Rosneft deal –...
BP ordered to pay to its joint venture TNK-BP after Siberian shareholder claimed link with Rosneft damaged company's value Continue reading →
View ArticleHuman immortality could be possible by 2045, say Russian scientists – Your...
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View ArticleIslamist sect found living underground near Russian city for nearly 10 years...
Fayzarahmanist sect with 70 members – including 20 children – discovered in bunker near Kazan without heat or light Continue reading →
View ArticleBBC News – Pussy Riot members jailed for two years for hooliganism
Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years in Moscow for hooliganism after performing an anti-Putin song in a cathedral. Continue reading →
View ArticleRussian top clerics forgive Pussy Riot, ask for mercy – World News
Russian Orthodox Church clerics have asked the country’s authorities to Continue reading →
View ArticleRussia reveals shiny state secret: It’s awash in diamonds
'Trillions of carats' lie below a 35-million-year-old, 62-mile-diameter asteroid crater in eastern Siberia known as Popigai Astroblem. The Russians have known about the site since the 1970s. Continue...
View ArticleRussia told Assad to shoot down Turkish plane, murder captured pilots,...
Devastating intelligence papers purport to prove jet was downed on Moscow's orders, pilots captured alive by intelligence unit and then killed; Damascus had claimed June incident was an accident...
View ArticleRussian Homeless Give the Lessons of Survival in the Streets
A couple of homeless from Perm organized the courses in which they teach how to survive without shelter and money. From LifeNews.ru: Homeless f Continue reading →
View ArticleRussian YotaPhone aims to reinvent the smartphone with secondary Kindle-like...
Innovation comes from the most unlikely of places. Russian cellular modem specialist Yota Devices — a spinoff from Russian carrier Yota — has revealed its plans to bring a dual-screen Android......
View ArticleRussia testing Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s medicine: Voice of Russia
Russian scientists have been testing a new medicine that is expected to protect the nervous system and hopefully become a cure for the most wide-spread nervous diseases such as Alzheimer`s and...
View ArticleJapan says Russia intruded air space; Russia denies charge
TOKYO (Reuters) - Two Russian fighter jets briefly entered Japan's air space near disputed islands and the northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday, prompting Japan to scramble combat fighters and lodge...
View ArticleRussian cop faces 5 years in jail after leaving disabled man to die on street...
After losing his fingers as a result of twelve hours spent in subzero temperatures, a disabled man has died from a blood clot in a Russian hospital. A policeman who refused to fulfill his duty by...
View ArticleRussian meteor largest in a century: Nature News – Comment
Explosion rivalled nuclear blast, but rock was still too small for advance-warning networks to spot. Continue reading →
View ArticleRussia and America: The dread of the other
Vlad the anti-American IF AMERICA did not exist, Russia would have to invent it. In a sense it already has: first as a dream, then as a nightmare. No other country... Continue reading →
View ArticleIn Russia, proposed bill will ban pride parades and public LGBT awareness...
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View ArticleRussia finds ‘new bacteria’ in Antarctic lake
Russian scientists believe they have found a wholly new type of bacteria in the mysterious subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, the RIA Novosti news agency reported on Thursday. Continue reading →
View ArticleRussian satellite hit by debris from Chinese anti-satellite test
By Leonard David, SpaceCom A small Russian spacecraft in orbit appears to have been struck by Chinese space junk from a 2007 anti-satellite test, likely damaging the Russian craft, possibly severely,...
View ArticleRussia admits no new life form found in Antarctic lake
Russian scientists on Saturday dismissed initial reports that they had found a wholly new type of bacteria in a mysterious subglacial lake in Antarctica. Continue reading →
View ArticleBoris Berezovsky found dead at his Berkshire home – World news – The Observer
Police search house of Russian oligarch thought to have taken his own life after losing much of his personal fortune Continue reading →
View ArticleRussian billionaire plans to make humans immortal by 2045
A Russian billionaire has unveiled plans to make humans immortal by converting them into 'Terminator-style' cyborgs - a creature that's part human and part machine - within the next three decades....
View ArticleVladimir Putin unveils $50 bn drive for Russian space supremacy
Vladimir Putin unveils $50 bn drive for Russian space supremacy - President Vladimir Putin today unveiled a new USD 50 billion drive for Russia to preserve its status as a top spac Continue reading →
View ArticleIcy beauty goes skinny-dipping with beluga whales, the shy dancers of the...
STRIPPING naked and plunging into an icy sea with two huge creatures of the deep is not for the faint of heart. Continue reading →
View Article‘Missiles fired at’ Russian plane with 159 passengers onboard flying over Syria
RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news. Continue reading →
View ArticleRussian researchers find more evidence to support notion that lightning is...
(Phys.org) —Russian physicists Alex Gurevich and Anatoly Karashtin claim, in a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, they have found more evidence to support their idea that lightning...
View ArticleWhy Wikipedia’s Millionth Russian Page Is Worth Celebrating
Media, technology, and anthropology. Current research is focused on the Bitcoin community. (by Lui) Continue reading →
View ArticleRussian Man Tortured and Killed in Volgograd for Being Gay
Victim's skull smashed with 20 kg rock for revealing he was homosexual. Continue reading →
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