Russia will introduce direct flights from Moscow to North Korea's capital of Pyongyang later this month, the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) stated Wednesday.Russia's civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia released a license for the charter airline Nordwind to run flights in between Moscow and Pyongyang two times a week, according to ATOR. N

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A court in annexed Crimea has fined a local woman 100,000 rubles ($1,280) for allegedly spreading “LGBT propaganda” after she posted photos on social media poking fun at gender norms in heterosexual relationships, the exiled news outlet Vyorstka reported Wednesday.

According to court documents, Irina Khokhlatkina was found to have shared images on

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A leading European court ruled Wednesday that Russia dedicated extensive human rights violations in its assistance for anti-Kyiv separatists in eastern Ukraine beginning in 2014, in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 that year and in its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), part of the Council of Europe, discovered

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Russia's Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday that the Russian Embassy in Tehran had reopened to the public, noting the security situation in Iran had stabilized two weeks after Israel and Iran agreed to end their brief air war.

The diplomatic mission had stopped providing consular services on June 15 after Israel launched an unprecedented bombing

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Wildlife authorities in Russia's Far East shot and killed 11 brown bears in a single night after the animals were enticed to a makeshift landfill by the odor of discarded fish, state media reported on Monday. This is the very first time in 18 years that we've [eliminated] that many bears in one night. We 'd done 3 to four at many, stated Alexander Matern,

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The Kremlin stated Wednesday it was unfazed by U.S. President Donald Trump's allegations that President Vladimir Putin was talking a great deal of bulls *** when it concerns Ukraine peace talks. We're relatively calm about it. Of all, let's simply say that Trump in general talks hard, in terms of the expressions he utilizes, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov t

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