Russian

Official anthem, radio jingle for IFFI 50 launched

50th IFFI to pay tribute to silent film viewing

11:13 pm November 11, 2019

New Delhi: 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be paying tribute to the lost form of silent film viewing in a specially curated section where three movies by master filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock, Sergei M Eisenstein and GW Pabst will be screened. The films are “Battleship Potemkin” by Russian pioneer of montage editing Eisenstein, […]

Israel court rejects Russian ‘hacker’ appeal against US extradition

7:36 pm November 10, 2019

Jerusalem: Israel’s top court upheld Sunday an extradition order of a Russian alleged hacker to the United States, where he is wanted for fraud. The justice ministry had last month finalised the extradition of Aleksey Burkov, who has been held in Israeli custody since 2015, without providing a date. Burkov appealed the decision to the […]

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

Russian IS women appeal to Putin to bring them home

7:19 pm October 27, 2019

Moscow: Russian women who were held in Kurdish-controlled camps in Syria as Islamic State group supporters have recorded emotional appeals to President Vladimir Putin to help them return home. The audio recordings released by RBK news website late Saturday were provided by Chechen rights ombudswoman Kheda Saratova, who has been involved in repatriating IS widows […]

Russian man drops lawsuit claiming Apple turned him gay

7:47 pm October 17, 2019

Moscow: A Russian man who filed a lawsuit against Apple after claiming an iPhone app turned him gay has withdrawn his complaint due to privacy fears, his lawyer said Thursday. “Today we abandoned the legal demands,” his attorney Sapizhat Gusnieva said after a first hearing behind closed doors in a Moscow court. Her client, identified […]

Trump says US troops ‘largely out’ of Syria region

9:19 pm October 16, 2019

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump says U.S. troops are “largely out” of a region of Syria where Turkish forces are attacking Kurdish fighters. Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters allied with the U.S. after Trump pulled troops from the region this month. As he met Wednesday with Italy’s president, Trump said: “If Syria wants […]