Tag Archives: Russia

MOSCOW | Xinhua |  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called a terrorist attack here bloody and barbaric, vowing retribution for the perpetrators, organizers and financiers. Putin made the remarks during a televised address to the nation after a deadly shooting Friday evening at the Crocus City Hall in northwest …

BEIJING | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday extended condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the serious terrorist attack that caused heavy casualties at a concert hall in Moscow Oblast. In his message, Xi said that he was shocked to learn that a serious terrorist attack occurred …

MOSCOW, RUSSIA  | Xinhua | Russian President Vladimir Putin won 87.28 percent of the votes in the presidential elections after all ballots were counted, the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on Monday. The Russian presidential elections were held for three days from March 15 to 17. Under Russian presidential …

MOSCOW, RUSSIA| Xinhua | Russian election authorities said Saturday that about 160,000 cyberattacks on the country’s remote electronic voting resources were blocked. The attacks were mainly directed toward the voting portal, with 30,000 attacks launched against the monitoring portal for the remote electronic voting system, said Ella Pamfilova, head of …

MOSCOW | TASS | March 16, 2024 marks ten years since the Crimean referendum, where the majority of citizens of Crimea and Sevastopol voted in favor of reunification with Russia. A treaty on Crimea’s and Sevastopol’s accession to Russia was signed on March 18, 2014. The Republic of Crimea is …

VLADIVOSTOK | Xinhua | Early voting in remote areas for the Russian presidential election has begun in the regions of the Far East, local media reported on Sunday. Quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency, Igor Shamraev, deputy chairman of the regional electoral commission of Kamchatka, said that about 30,000 people …

MOSCOW | TASS | The West wants Ukraine to submit a list of targets inside Russia and provide reasons for striking them, a source told TASS. “Western sponsors of the Kiev regime link continued deliveries of long-range combat missiles to Ukraine with the effectiveness of their practical use,” the source …

MOSCOW | TASS | The situation around Ukraine is a matter of life and death for Russia, while the West doesn’t care as much, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments on his interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson. Putin made the comments in an interview with All-Russia State Television …

Ukraine sought to prove that the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic are terrorist organizations, and Russia gave them funding and weapons THE HAGUE | TASS | The UN International Court of Justice has found most of Ukraine’s complaints against Russia in a lawsuit over potential violations of …

MOSCOW | Xinhua | Russia will respond to any attempts by Western countries to confiscate Russian property and assets abroad, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. “We have spoken more than once about the illegitimacy of unilateral coercive measures taken by Western countries in relation to Russian property abroad. …