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Putin orders Russian security on high alert before Olympics

August 22, 2019 at 8:51 a.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered security forces to be on high alert on Thursday to protect against attacks by militants ahead of next year's Winter Olympics in...

Mysterious YouTube video accuses Russia’s Medvedev of treason

August 23, 2021 at 10:29 p.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev is glimpsed exchanging confidential smiles with Barack Obama as sinister music plays. The dead body of Russian ally Muammar Gaddafi, driven from power by the...

Russia presses on with plans to try dead whistleblower

August 22, 2019 at 8:30 a.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia pushed forward with plans for the posthumous trial of a lawyer on tax evasion charges on Monday, despite a boycott by relatives and lawyers who said...

Relieved Russians return home after fleeing Syria violence

August 22, 2019 at 8:22 a.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dozens of Russians arrived home on Wednesday after fleeing Syria, relieved to be escaping the deprivation and horror of civil war but worried about an uncertain future...

Surgery scheduled to restore Bolshoi ballet director’s eyesight

May 13, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet will undergo surgery next week to try to save his eyesight after an attacker threw acid in his face, the...

Surgery scheduled to restore Bolshoi ballet director’s eyesight

November 3, 2021 at 4:29 p.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet will undergo surgery next week to try to save his eyesight after an attacker threw acid in his face, the...

Russian Cossacks test their powers in Moscow street patrol

August 22, 2019 at 7:09 a.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - By tradition, Cossacks protected Russia's borderlands, but on Tuesday descendants of the Tsarist warrior caste patrolled a patch of central Moscow as part of a resurgence encouraged...

Russian defense chief crossed Putin’s political “family”

August 22, 2019 at 6:50 a.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Viktor Zubkov was the friend Russian President Vladimir Putin turned to when he wanted help blowing out his birthday candles 12 years ago. At the time, Zubkov...

Russian defense chief crossed Putin’s political “family”

August 23, 2021 at 5:27 p.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Viktor Zubkov was the friend Russian President Vladimir Putin turned to when he wanted help blowing out his birthday candles 12 years ago. At the time, Zubkov...

U.N.-Arab League envoy regrets Syria truce crumbled

August 22, 2019 at 6:34 a.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi expressed regret on Monday at the failure of a four-day truce in Syria that he had arranged between President Bashar al-Assad's government and...

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