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Tens of thousands of Muscovites demonstrated Saturday for free and transparent municipal elections, with hundreds being arrested by city authorities. Independent monitoring groups have claimed that these are the largest demonstrations the city has witness

Radiation and environmental effects as well as the potential for increased communication between Russia and the U.S. are causing concern

Residents of two northern Russian cities are stocking up on iodine that is used to reduce the effects of radiation exposure after a mysterious accident on a nearby military testing site, regional media reported.'

A Russian city reportedly observed a rise in radiation levels after an explosion at a nearby military testing site, which left at least two dead.

Officials have raised the death toll to five people in a mysterious August 8 explosion and fire at a military unit in Russia's northwestern Arkhangelsk region, as a string of blasts have rocked Russian military sites in recent days.

U.S.-based nuclear experts said Friday they suspected an accidental blast and radiation release in northern Russia this week occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Putin last year.The Russian Ministry

Two years after a mysterious cloud of radiation swept through Europe, a team of scientists has pinpointed the source of the leak to a nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia, which was preparing materials for an Italian physics experiment at the time.

Russian President Vladimir Putin recently sat down for an interview with far left Hollywood producer Oliver Stone. The transcript for the interview was posted on the Kremlin website. Most of the liberal mainstream media is covering the part of the intervi

Russia's space agency says a Russian Proton-M rocket has successfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit after days of launch delays.Roscosmos said the telescope, named Spektr-RG, was delivered into a parking orbit before a final burn

Kremlin refuses to reveal mission of vessel, citing state secrets

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence are — perhaps coincidentally — cancelling their plans today. "#BREAKING," KANN correspondent Amachai Stein tweeted this morning. "Putin cancelling his plans for to

CHERNOBYL'S nuclear radiation could be hiding inside everyday items after six million tonnes of radioactive metal was looted from the exclusion zone over the past 30 years, a documentary shockingly claims. “This metal goes to countries in Eastern Ukraine, that are then sold on the Chinese market.

US secretary of state says after Russia talks that US doesn't seek a war with Iran

Bill mandates Internet filtering and creates a Russian version of DNS.

Maria Butina, the Russian woman who was accused of being a secret agent for the Russian government, was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday by a federal judge after pleading guilty last year to a conspiracy charge.

Will Venezuela be the place where President Trump, who has often seemed to tolerate Russian provocations, finally draws his own "red line"?

Just days after a high-level meeting in Rome this week, during which Russia reiterated a grave warning to the US Moscow will not tolerate American military intervention to topple the Venezuelan government with whom it is allied - it appears Russia is taki

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation Monday that make it illegal to spread "fake news."

The United States on Wednesday dismissed comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow would match any U.S. move to deploy new nuclear missiles closer to Russia as propaganda designed to divert attention from alleged Russian violations of the I

Moscow will match any U.S. move to deploy new nuclear missiles closer to Russia ...