The head of Russia's Security Council Sergei Shoigu met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday, simply months after the Kremlin signed a mutual defense agreement with Pyongyang.The go to also comes as Moscow seeks more arms for its war in Ukraine, and as the West implicates Pyongyang of sending weapons to Russia.Russia's Security Council stated

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Russian state broadcaster Rossiya-24said Friday that its war correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny was released from the healthcare facility over a month after being seriously injured in a Ukrainian drone attack.Poddubny was hospitalized after a drone struck the lorry he was riding in throughout a reporting project on Ukraine's surprise incursion into the Kursk r

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Covid-19 cases are rising across Russia, driven by two brand-new variations that are more resistant to immunity, the nation's customer safety guard dog Rospotrebnadzor said Friday.Over the previous 2 to 3 weeks, infections from the KP.3 and pound.1 variations have actually risen by 100% and 400%, respectively. Rospotrebnadzor recognized them as FLiRT variations, a te

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Friday announced that the accreditation of six British diplomats had been withdrawn, accusing them of espionage and "threatening Russia's security."

"As a measure of reprisals to the multiple unfriendly acts of London, the Russian Foreign Ministry... has withdrawn the accreditation of six employees from

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Japan rushed fighter jets after Russian airplane flew around the island nation for the first time in 5 years, Tokyo said Friday.The Japanese Defense Ministry said Russian Tu-142 reconnaissance planes flew from the sea between Japan and South Korea toward the southern Okinawa region from Thursday early morning to afternoon. The airplane then

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The team of late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the violent March attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing evidence it obtained.

Volkov, Navalny’s ex-chief of staff and former chairman of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), was attacked with tear gas and a hammer outside h

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