Russia

A group of EU lawmakers on Friday urged the bloc’s leaders to boycott this year’s football World Cup in Russia to protest over Moscow’s “mockery of European values”. The 60 MEPs said all European Union countries...

The editor-in-chief of Russian state broadcaster RT, commenting on a British investigation into how the station covered the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, joked on Wednesday the station was not to blame for the death of Skripal’s...

Germany’s Europe minister called on Monday for a new policy of easing tensions with Russia, adding to a chorus of voices pressing Chancellor Angela Merkel to moderate her hardened stance towards the Kremlin. The conservative chancellor...

A Moscow court on Friday ruled to block the popular messaging app Telegram in Russia after it refused to give state security services access to private conversations, a reporter at the court said. The Roskomnadzor telecoms...

The Russian and Syrian military on Monday said Israeli war planes carried out missile strikes on a Syrian air base, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump warned of a “big price to pay” following reports of...

The world’s governing football body, FIFA, presented on Friday the design of tickets for matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on June 14 in 11 cities across Russia. “With 69 days to...

The United States plans to sanction Russian oligarchs this week under a law targeting Moscow for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in what could be the most...

Russia’s state communications watchdog said on Friday it had filed a lawsuit to limit access to the Telegram messaging app after the company refused to give Russian state security services access to its users’ secret messages....

Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov will discuss the Rohingya refugees crisis and economic cooperation between the countries in the bilateral meeting in Moscow. Ali is currently on a working...

Russia’s Ministry of Transport said on Saturday that Moscow would demand an official explanation from Britain for why a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane had been subjected to a search at Heathrow airport on Friday. The Russian...