The first moon landing mission in Russia's post-Soviet history will be accompanied by an evacuation of a village where rocket boosters are expected to fall this week, a local official said Monday.

The Luna-25 lunar lander isscheduled to launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East at 23:10 GMT on Friday, Aug. 11. It will be Russia’s f

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Russia is on track to open more criminal cases for treason in 2023 than over the previous 20 years combined, Russia's independent news site Kholodreported Monday. Authorities launched 82 treason examinations between January and July-- a fourfold boost from the 20 cases examined in all of 2022-- Kholod stated, citing openly readily available media r

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Russian President Vladimir Putin can pick not to hold presidential elections next year since he will clearly win re-election, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskovsaid late Sunday.Putin is extensively expected to state his bid for a sixth general governmental term. Pre-war constitutional modifications permit him to stay president until 2036. Although

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Russia stated Monday it had actually shot down a Ukrainian drone southwest of Moscow, as drone attacks on the Russian capital and its surrounding regions have actually risen in recent weeks. Authorities said the drone was downed in the central Kaluga region, less than 200 kilometers from Moscow, adding that the occurrence affected neither people nor infrastructure. Th

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European business have suffered a minimum of 100 billion euros ($110 billion) in direct losses from operations in Russia since Moscow introduced its invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Timesreported late Sunday.A survey of major European companies showed that a total of 176 companies that have actually posted annual reports for 2022 and monetary statements this

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Russia stated Sunday that its forces struck military airbases in the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions in western Ukraine which all targets were hit. Overnight Russia's armed forces performed strikes ... on Ukrainian armed forces airbases around the settlements of Starokostiantyniv in the Khmelnytskyi region and Dubno in the Rivne region, the

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