RUSSIA

One dead in gas explosion outside Moscow: officials

8:42 pm April 4, 2020

Moscow: One person was killed and four were injured when a gas explosion ripped through a five-storey residential building outside Moscow on Saturday, authorities said. The gas explosion took place in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo during stay-at-home orders from authorities trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Zhanna Terekhova, a spokeswoman for the emergencies […]

Moscow begins lockdown during tougher push to curb virus

5:13 pm March 30, 2020

Moscow: Moscow, with its more than 12 million people, went into lockdown on Monday while other parts of Russia moved to introduce similar steps to curb the coronavirus outbreak. The enforcement of the strict new rules, which Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin suddenly announced for the capital late Sunday, coincide with the beginning of a “non-working” […]

Russia to close restaurants, cafes from Saturday

4:27 pm March 27, 2020

Moscow: The Russian government has ordered all cafes and restaurants to close for a week from Saturday to stem the spread of the coronavirus infection. Russian regions are to “halt the activities of public food service organisations,” except for delivery services, a government decree said on Friday. The decree also ordered regional authorities to halt […]

Biden to meet Putin in Geneva on June 16: White House

Putin signs Russia’s constitutional reform law

10:49 pm March 14, 2020

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed the package of constitutional reforms he had proposed, including a clause giving him an option to run for two more terms. The Kremlin has published the 68-page law spelling out the constitutional reforms on the official website. Putin’s signature triggers a special procedure for the package, which […]

Russia’s Sputnik says Turkey editor-in-chief detained in Istanbul

9:30 pm March 1, 2020

Istanbul: Istanbul police on Sunday detained the editor-in-chief of the Turkish edition of Sputnik, the Russian news website said, amid growing tensions between Ankara and Moscow. “Sputnik Turkey’s editor-in-chief Mahir Boztepe has been detained. He is being taken to the Istanbul police headquarters,” the website said. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya which owns Sputnik, confirmed the […]