Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits, 17 million within the urban area and 20 million within the metropolitan area. Moscow is one of Russia's federal cities.
Vladimir Putin rebuked his French counterpart on Monday, saying he did not want "yellow vest" protests spring up like in France, after Emmanuel Macron urged the Russian leader to abide by democratic.. Reuters - Published
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday that Moscow did not want protests like the yellow vest ones that have convulsed France, but that peaceful.. Reuters - Published
Russian opposition activists staged a string of pickets in central Moscow on Saturday (August 17) to call for free elections and for charges against protesters detained at recent rallies to be dropped...
Reuters reports Russian opposition activists staged a string of pickets in central Moscow on Saturday. They're calling for free elections and for charges against protesters detained at recent rallies..
Russians hailed a miracle on Thursday after a passenger plane carrying 233 people made an emergency landing in a corn field on the outskirts of Moscow after striking a flock of birds shortly after..
Video footage of a Russian police officer punching a young woman in the stomach has stirred anger among many Russians who believe the authorities have used excessive force to disperse weeks of..
Russia's state communications watchdog, Roscomnadzor, has asked Google to stop advertising "illegal mass events" on its YouTube video platform after tens of thousands staged a large political protest..
Russian police detained 72 people on Saturday (August 10) over opposition protests staged in several cities, the OVD-Info protest monitor said on social media. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
Vladimir Putin, on the back of criticism of Russian police's response to protests in Moscow, says law enforcement is even tougher in the West. Is he right?
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Reuters reports Russia’s undaunted anti-Kremlin opposition said it was planning a nationwide protest next weekend. This, despite police forcibly detaining over 1,000 people on Saturday for attending..
800 people attending a protest in Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections were forcibly detained. Prominent activist Lyubov Sobol was among those taken into custody, after authorities warned the..
At least 600 people have been arrested, an independent monitor says, and several beaten with truncheons at an unauthorized protest in central Moscow calling for free elections. David Doyle reports.
U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday that he was in favor of placing ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles in Asia relatively soon, a day after the United States withdrew from a..
More than 300 demonstrators were detained by police at a protest to demand free elections in Moscow, according to independent monitoring group OVD-Info. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from a Moscow hospital on Monday where he was being treated for an unexplained health problem and returned to prison under guard. Emer McCarthy..
French President Emmanuel Macron told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday that Moscow must abide by fundamental democratic principles, and that it was right to keep a dialogue between the countries.. Reuters - Published
Russian opposition activists staged a string of pickets in central Moscow on Saturday to call for free elections and for charges against protesters detained at recent rallies to be dropped. Reuters - Published
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday bestowed top state honors on two pilots for courage and heroism after they safely landed a packed passenger plane in a cornfield near Moscow as its engines.. Reuters - Published
Two Russian pilots safely landed an airliner carrying 233 people in a cornfield outside Moscow after striking a flock of birds, prompting the Kremlin to hail them as heroes who will receive top state.. Reuters - Published
A court in Moscow ruled on Thursday to keep U.S. investor Michael Calvey under house arrest, facing charges of embezzlement which he denies. Reuters - Published
The Kremlin lauded two Russian pilots as heroes and said they would be handed state awards after they landed an airliner carrying 233 people in a cornfield outside Moscow after striking a flock of.. Reuters - Published
Baring Vostok executive Phillipe Delpal, a French national, will be released from custody and placed under house arrest under the order of a Moscow court, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday. Reuters - Published
Russian airline pilots averted a disaster outside Moscow Thursday morning. They landed their jet in a cornfield after a bird strike when it took off. Incredibly, no one was killed. Passengers milled.. CBS News - Published
Russians hailed a miracle on Thursday after a passenger plane carrying 233 people made an emergency landing in a corn field on the outskirts of Moscow after striking a flock of birds shortly after.. Reuters - Published
A Russian passenger plane performed an emergency landing near Moscow shortly after take off on Thursday after birds were sucked into its engines, the airline and state media reported. Reuters - Published
The last major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States is outdated and flawed, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday, saying it could be scrapped altogether when it.. Reuters - Published
Russian security officers armed with automatic rifles on Wednesday searched the Moscow offices of a rights group that represents the interests of Russian nationals in the European Court of Human.. Reuters - Published
The Moscow city court cancelled a decision by an election commission to bar a Russian opposition candidate, Sergei Mitrokhin, from running in a municipal election in September, TASS news agency.. Reuters - Published
The Kremlin on Tuesday shrugged off five weeks of street protests in support of free elections in Moscow, saying the situation had not warranted comment from President Vladimir Putin and voicing strong.. Reuters - Published
Medics who treated victims of an accident during a rocket engine test that caused a spike in radiation last week have been sent to Moscow for medical examination, TASS news agency cited an unnamed.. Reuters - Published
The Kremlin denied on Tuesday that political protests in Moscow in recent weeks have created a political crisis in Russia in its first comments on the rallies. Reuters - Published
Donald Trump tweaked Russia over a mysterious explosion he said was tied to a nuclear-powered missile Moscow officials have described as a new weapon.
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Video footage of a Russian police officer punching a young woman in the stomach has stirred anger among many Russians who believe the authorities have used excessive force to disperse weeks of.. Reuters - Published
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