A group of Moscow students dressed in vintage Soviet WWII uniforms and dresses danced to old tunes at the third annual Victory Waltz in Moscow on Tuesday. Organizers say that around 400 people gathered for the occasion with some non-combatant war survivors making up the core audience. The “Victory Waltz” …
Read More »BRICS film festival kicks off in Moscow
The BRICS Film Festival, now in its eighth year, kicked off in Russia on Friday as part of the Moscow International Film Festival. It is an annual event organized by the rotating presidency of the BRICS countries. The Moscow program features eight films from Russia, India, China, Brazil, Iran, South …
Read More »“Moscow has nothing to do with Russian military in Mali ” – Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country had nothing to do with Russian military contractors working in Mali. According to the president, the African country had the right to work with private Russian firms. Putin, speaking at a news conference after talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, said there …
Read More »Vladimir Putin wants to discuss with Joe Biden in the coming days
Russian President Vladimir Putin offers his American counterpart Joe Biden “a discussion” broadcast live in the coming days, in response to the accusations of the American president who considered that he could be qualified as a “killer”. The US president Joe Biden answers with the affirmative when a journalist from …
Read More »‘It takes one to know one’ Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer
President Vladimir Putin retorted on Thursday that it takes one to know one after U.S. President Joe Biden said he thought the Russian leader was a killer and already poor relations between Moscow and Washington sank to a new post-Cold War low. Putin was speaking on television after Biden, in …
Read More »Russian ambassador will leave Washington on Saturday
Ambassador Anatoly Antonov will visit Moscow for consultations on the future of the Russian-American relationship, after Joe Biden claimed that Vladimir Putin was “a killer”. “During meetings at the Russian Foreign Ministry and with other bodies, it will be a question of means of correcting the Russian-American relationship in crisis,” …
Read More »Russia has production agreements for Sputnik V in Europe
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced Monday that agreements to produce the anti-Covid Sputnik V vaccine have been reached “with companies from Italy, Spain, France and Germany”, pending its approval in the EU. The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which financed the development of the Sputnik …
Read More »Russia is ready to cut EU ties if hit with painful sanctions
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow is ready to sever ties with the European Union if the bloc hits it with painful economic sanctions, according to extracts of an interview posted on the ministry’s website on Friday. Relations between Russia and the West have come under renewed pressure …
Read More »