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The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout have been the top concern of people across the world and naturally this has affected ratings of governments and heads of state. In some places, those in power struggling with unpopularity have managed to gain public support. For example, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe…

Moscow (CNN)Russia has accused one of its leading Arctic researchers of treason, alleging that he gave sensitive information to China. This is the latest in a string of cases where high-profile Russian scientists have found themselves in a standoff with the security services over suspected foreign contacts.Investigators allege that Valery…

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through, the state-controlled RIA news agency reported on Tuesday. The special tunnel, manufactured by a Russian company based in the town of Penza, has been…

MOSCOW, June 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through, the state-controlled RIA news agency reported on Tuesday. The special tunnel, manufactured by a Russian company based in the town…

Alexei Navalny has been repeatedly arrested and detained in the past Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against opposition leader Alexei Navalny, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, for allegedly slandering a veteran of World War II. The Investigative Committee, which handles probes into major crimes, announced the…

(BEIJING) — China’s capital was bracing Monday for a resurgence of the coronavirus after more than 100 new cases were reported in recent days in a city that hadn’t seen a case of local transmission in more than a month. The United States, meanwhile, continued to struggle with an outbreak…

Russian President Vladimir Putin | Alexey Druzhinin/AFP via Getty Images ‘I see nothing good for the country,’ says the Russian president. Russian President Vladimir Putin said anti-racism protests in the United States are a “sign of some deep-seated internal crises.” In excerpts of an interview with state-owned Rossiya 1 television…

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By Alexander MarrowMOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of organising the activities of a banned extremist organisation, his lawyer said.The ruling at the Pskov City Court, handed to 61-year-old Gennady Shpakovskiy, was…

The U.S. and Russia have agreed to start arms control talks later this month as the only remaining treaty between the two largest nuclear powers is poised to expireBy DEB RIECHMANN Associated PressJune 8, 2020, 8:54 PM3 min readWASHINGTON -- The U.S. and Russia have agreed to start arms control…