The co-chair of a Nobel-winning rights group in Russia gets 30 months in jail for criticizing warOleg Orlov, a human rights advocate, has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for discrediting the Russian army in an article condemning t...
27 Feb, 2024, 05.19 PM IST
Vladimir Putin's critics: dead, jailed, exiledProminent critics of Putin, including Navalny, Nemtsov, Politkovskaya, Kara-Murza, Yashin, Chanysheva, Fadeyeva, Khodorkovsky, and Kassyano...
17 Feb, 2024, 05.09 PM IST
Russia mutiny: Moscow braces for Wagner mercenaries' assault as rebels defy Putin's rageThe rapidly escalating events mark the most serious challenge yet to the Russian president's rule -- and Russia's most serious security cri...
24 Jun, 2023, 10.28 PM IST
Russia protests pope comments as Vatican seeks to mediateThe Kremlin's ambassador to the Holy See, Alexander Avdeev, told the RIA Novosti agency that he met Monday with a Vatican official to expre...
29 Nov, 2022, 07.53 PM IST
Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa's remarks on US may affect Pak-Russia tiesBajwa's comments, interpreted as seeking to repair ties with old ally US which had turned lukewarm in recent years under the premiership of...
05 Apr, 2022, 06.50 AM IST
Elon Musk branded ‘Elona’ by Chechen warlord, Tesla boss responds with a sarcastic tweetThe warlord issued a warning after Musk challenged Putin to ‘single combat’.
16 Mar, 2022, 08.45 AM IST
Fears of Grozny and Aleppo haunt Ukrainian citiesImages of devastation from the Ukrainian cities like Mariupol, Chernihiv and Kharkiv bring back memories of the bloody sieges of Aleppo in ...
06 Mar, 2022, 03.43 PM IST
Ukraine-Russia crisis: Neo-Nazism and fake news dominate discourseObjectives for the military operation in Ukraine, as repeatedly claimed by the Russian president Vladimir Putin in his speech is “de-Nazifi...
05 Mar, 2022, 01.32 PM IST
Vladimir Putin to oversee nuclear drills as Ukraine crisis mountsRussia ordered the military buildup while demanding NATO stop Kyiv ever joining the alliance but says predictions it is planning to invade ...
19 Feb, 2022, 04.01 PM IST
France honours slain teacher with a minute of silence as schools resumeSchoolchildren across France were to observe a minute of silence at 11:00 am (1000 GMT) to remember Samuel Paty, who was killed in Conflans...
02 Nov, 2020, 02.36 PM IST
'Resist the blackmail': French companies brace for Arab boycottFrench President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to take the fight to Islamic radicals after the October 16 beheading of a history teacher who ha...
26 Oct, 2020, 05.22 PM IST
- Soccer-Late goal gives Russia win over Romania in Grozny
SOCCER-FRIENDLY-RUS-ROM/:Soccer-Late goal gives Russia win over Romania in Grozny
16 Nov, 2016, 12.59 AM IST
- Late goal gives Russia win over Romania in Grozny
SOCCER-FRIENDLY-RUS-ROM:Late goal gives Russia win over Romania in Grozny
16 Nov, 2016, 12.59 AM IST
Attack in Pakistan a chilling reminder of Beslan school siegeTTP claimed that 6 suicide bombers attacked army school, saying it was a revenge for Pak army's ops against militants in North Waziristan t...
16 Dec, 2014, 06.06 PM IST
Geography poses a problem for Americans yet again post Boston bombingsAs a critic noted, the US is also a nation where, say, a baseball match between Wisconsin and Texas might be called the World Series.
24 Apr, 2013, 11.50 AM IST
Did Boston bombers have ties to al-Qaeda-linked groups?Chechen extremists pose a greater threat to Russia than they do to the US, counter-terrorism specialists say, though some of the groups hav...
21 Apr, 2013, 05.55 PM IST
- Chechen terrorists are back
The scourge of terrorism struck again on Monday at Moscow’s new Domodedovo Airport, on the outskirts of the Russian capital, killing up to ...
25 Jan, 2011, 05.21 AM IST