Europe Russia Starting today 1 March, Russia will ban gasoline exports for six months: the government said the decision is taken to avoid a price increase linked to seasonal growth in domestic demand from consumers and farmers
Europe Russia The mother of Alexei Navalny, dissident who died in jail on 16 February, has filed a lawsuit against the Russian authorities' decision not to immediately return her son's body
Europe Russia Moscow said it was ready to consider the African initiative to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's African department, Vsevolod Tkachenko, told Tass news agency in an interview
Europe Russia Two Russian courts have handed down the first two convictions following the passing of the new law restricting activism for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, rather vaguely classifying activities related to their defence as extremist
Europe Russia A bill to annul a 1956 agreement on fishing rights between the Soviet Union and Great Britain, which granted British fishing vessels the right to operate in certain areas of the Barents Sea, was submitted to Parliament
Europe Russia Russian police have charged with 'public display of the symbols of an extremist organisation' for the first time a person who allegedly posted on the web an image of a rainbow flag symbolising Lgbtq pride, according to human rights group Perviy Otdel
Europe Russia Russian opponent Alexey Navalny claims he was immediately sent to solitary confinement for seven days as soon as the mandatory quarantine period ended in the remote 'Polar Wolf' prison above the Arctic Circle, where he was transferred in December
Europe Russia Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny spoke out for the first time since his sudden disappearance weeks ago, after his team claimed to have located him on Monday in a penal colony in Siberia
Europe Russia The country would be working on creating 'African military corps' to replace the Wagner group; according to a report by Radio France International, this initiative emerged following the visit of the Russian Deputy Defence Minister to Niger
Europe Russia Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the LGBT 'movement' is 'extremist', sparking a global outcry over fears that the designation will allow the country to tighten repression against gays and transgender people
Europe Russia Russia will respond if Finland closes the remaining border crossings between the two countries, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, not specifying Moscow's reaction
Europe Russia An investigation under the hypothesis of a 'terrorist act' has been opened for the derailment of a train in Ryazan region; numerous sabotage incidents on the Russian railway network have occurred since the start of the war in Ukraine
Europe Russia The Defence Ministry announced that it had 'successfully' tested - internally - an intercontinental ballistic missile launched from a submarine in the White Sea, off the country's northwest coast, towards Kamchatka peninsula