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The defence ministry in Moscow claimed the exercises were being undertaken to prepare for a possible enemy attack on Russia as the country's military tested their nuclear weapons

Russia said on Wednesday it would continue to make the case to the international community that it believed Ukraine intended to detonate a "dirty bomb" with radioactive contaminants.

The Russian Book Union recently sent a letter to the Russian Duma, one of the chambers of the country’s parliament, expressing concern that a proposed bill expanding the scope of forbidden LGBTQ+ “propaganda” could lead to the banning of works of classic literature, including books by Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky,…

Russia is taking highly disputed claims that Ukraine plans to use a dirty bomb on its own soil to the UN security council

US basketball star’s appeal rejected by Moscow court in what the White House calls ‘another sham judicial proceeding’.

The Paris prosecutor's office is investigating a franco-russian association, in an effort to establish whether the organisation's leaders, a French MEP and a former senator, obtained advantages in exchange for promoting positions favourable to Moscow.

Nato is holding long-planned annual nuclear exercises in northwestern Europe as tensions simmer over the war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use any means to defend Russian territory. Moscow is set to hold its own nuclear drills.

A Russian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by WNBA star Brittney Griner against her nine-year sentence for drug smuggling, Interfax reported.

In Russia's latest advocacy campaign over its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has focused on accusations that Kyiv might be planning to use a so-called "dirty bomb" - a conventional explosive device laced with toxic nuclear material.