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MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that 95% of Russia's strategic nuclear forces had been modernised and that the Air Force had just taken delivery of four new supersonic nuclear-capable bombers. Putin made the comments in a reco...

MOSCOW -Alexei Navalnys mother Lyudmila accused Russian investigators on Thursday of planning to bury her son in secret without a funeral, and said she would not agree to it....

(Reuters) -Alexei Navalny's mother accused Russian investigators on Thursday of planning to bury her son in secret without a funeral, after days of struggling - so far in vain - to persuade them to hand over his body. Lyudmila Navalnaya made the allegation in a YouTube video published six days after Russia's best known opposition politician died suddenly in the Arctic penal colony where he had been serving a long sentence. There was no immediate response from Russian investigators.

-Russian anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin said on Wednesday he had submitted 105,000 signatures of support to the Central Election Commission , technically enough to challenge incumbent Vladimir... -January 31, 2024 at 05:11 am EST - MarketScreener

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Tuesday it would appeal a decision to strip it of an Olympic gold medal after the Kremlin condemned a doping ban against teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva as politically motivated. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday banned Valieva for four years for doping, effective from December 2021, a decision that also stripped the Russian Olympic Committee's gold medal in the team event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games nearly two years after the com...

-A Russian singer was handed a 10-day prison sentence on Tuesday after exposing himself fully naked on stage when a sock that he had been wearing over his penis fell off.... -January 09, 2024 at 10:49 am EST - MarketScreener

LONDON (Reuters) -Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified on Saturday from running against President Vladimir Putin in an election next March because of alleged flaws in her application to register as a candidate. Video from a meeting of the central electoral commission showed members voting unanimously to reject the candidacy of Duntsova, who had wanted to run on a platform to end the war in Ukraine and release political prisoners. Her disqualification was seized on by Putin...

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified on Saturday as a candidate for Russias next presidential ...

LONDON -The wife of jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who suffers from a nerve disorder after surviving two poison attacks, said on Wednesday she feared for his life after his...

LONDON (Reuters) -The wife of jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who suffers from a nerve disorder after surviving two poison attacks, said on Wednesday she feared for his life after his transfer from Moscow to a Siberian penal colony.