RT America registers as foreign agent in US

The Russian international news network RT America has registered as a foreign agent in the United States at the demand of the U.S. Department of Justice, RT said Monday on its website, citing its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.

Russian space corporation promotes Baikonur as UNESCO object

Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos addressed the Foreign Ministry asking to promote the Baikonur cosmodrome is put on UNESCO’s world heritage list as a joint nomination of Russia and Kazakhstan, Secretary of the Russian commission on UNESCO affairs Grigori Ordzhonikidze said on Saturday.

Trump's Iran decertification announcement again rattles world

US President Donald Trump's Friday decertification of Iran's compliance with the landmark nuclear deal has provoked wide disturbances and fury in and outside the United States.

Former Japanese residents of Kurile Islands make trip to visit ancestors’ graves

A chartered flight took a group of Japanese from the city of Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido prefecture, to Russia on Saturday so that they could visit their ancestors’ graves on the Kurile Islands, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said.

Russia pays off balance of Soviet Union's foreign debt.

Moscow made the final payment on the remaining foreign debt inherited from the Soviet Union. Russia took on the debt after the other former Soviet republics refused to pay.

Putin Says US Must Cut 755 Diplomatic Staff, More Measures Possible

President Vladimir Putin said the United States would have to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 people and that Moscow could consider additional measures against Washington as a response to new US sanctions approved by Congress.

About 80% of Germans Disapprove of New US Sanctions Against Russia : Poll

Eighty three percent of Germans says the US plan to impose new anti-Russia sanctions is a mistake, a poll conducted by the Forsa for the Spiegel newspaper said on Saturday.

FSB detains Central Asians on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks in St Petersburg

Russia's intelligence service, the FSB, detained seven individuals of Central Asian origin on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks in St. Petersburg, FSB said on Friday.

Putin lays wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in a wreath-laying ceremony on Thursday at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow in memory of the country’s defenders who perished in the battles against fascists.

Manchester Arena: Major terror attacks in Europe in recent years

The police confirmed early Tuesday that 19 people were killed and 50 more were injured in a blast that occurred outside Manchester Arena right after the end of a concert late Monday night.

Russia Opens Criminal Cases Over Kiev Killing Civilians

Russia seeks justice over Ukraine's use of prohibited methods of warfare against civilians in Donbass.

Russia celebrates WWII V-Day with military parade

Russia on Tuesday staged a military parade on Moscow's Red Square to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the victory in World War II (WWII).

Pilots who took part in Syrian operation to fly over Red Square on May 9

Almost all the pilots who will take part in the upcoming Victory Day parade, have participated in the Syrian operation, Russian Aerospace Forces Commander Colonel General Viktor Bondarev said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

More Americans Consider Russia as Greatest Threat

Despite the belief among US political pundits that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) could pose the largest threat to America, a new Pew poll showed that ordinary Americans consider Russia as the "greatest danger."

Kremlin says no restrictions for Crimean Tatars’ organizations in Russia

Public movements of Crimean Tatars are not restricted in their activities in Russia, except for extremism, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, commenting on the ruling of UN International Court of Justice following Ukraine’s lawsuit.

UN court rules over ethnic Tatars, other minorities in Crimea

The International Court of Justice has rejected Ukraine’s request for measures aimed at blocking what Kiev calls “Russian support” for self-defense forces in eastern Ukraine.

America’s Syria strike ‘on verge of military clash’ with Russia : PM Medvedev

The US attack on an airfield in Syria has been conducted “on the verge of a military clash” with Russia, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, adding that President Trump has been “broken by the US power machine” in just two-and-a-half months.

At least 10 dead in St. Petersburg, Russia, subway blasts

Two explosions in Russia on Monday struck St. Petersburg's Sennaya Ploschad and Tekhnologichesky Institut subway stations, killing at least 10 and injuring several others, emergency officials said.

Russian military delivers humanitarian aid to some 3,800 Syrians over past 24 hours

Russian military servicemen were involved in eight humanitarian missions in war-torn Syria’s Aleppo, as well as in provinces of Latakia and Damascus, providing with aid up to 3,800 civilians over the past 24 hours, the Russian Center of the Reconciliation of the Warring Sides in Syria reported on Monday.

Poll Shows Germans More Anxious About Trump's Policy Than About Putin's Actions

The German citizens are more worried about US President Donald Trump's policies than of Russian leader Vladimir Putin's, a poll issued on Friday by FG Wahlen said.