While the West gets ready for visits from Santa Claus, Russians will be queuing up to see ‘Ded Moroz’, or Father Frost. In one northern town, however, he’s making a list and will be checking Covid-19 vaccine passports twice. On Sunday, officials in Veliky Ustyug, the fabled hometown of the bearded bringer of joy, warned that adults who want to tell him their wishes for the festive season will... 

After the Pentagon noticed a “debris-generating event” in orbit, the State Department condemned what they said was a Russian test of an anti-satellite missile, calling it “dangerous and irresponsible behavior.” “US Space Command is aware of a debris-generating event in outer space,” the Pentagon said on Monday, saying the US military was “actively working to characterize the debris field.” State... 

Russia’s state development corporation has announced it is working on an advanced new unmanned military jet that can soar above the clouds and cloak itself from enemy defenses, while being controlled from the safety of the ground. In a flashy teaser released on Monday, Rostec and Russia’s publicly owned aerospace giant UAC showed off renderings of the fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-75, codenamed... 

UK papers are hyping the revival of a Cold War-era US artillery unit in Germany, supposed to be armed with ‘Dark Eagle’ hypersonic missiles that will be able reach Moscow in mere minutes, once they are developed. ‘Dark Eagle has landed’ proclaimed The Sun on Wednesday, originally reporting that the new US missiles could “blitz Russia” in just six minutes – before revising that to “21... 

Four men accused of attacking a father and his son in Moscow have been charged with “attempted murder of at least two persons, including a minor.” The incident sparked public outrage. The suspects confronted two men on a street in southwestern Moscow earlier this week, despite one of the victims having his young son with him. Videos of the incident surfaced online on Friday, causing widespread... 

US President Joe Biden has lashed out at Vladimir Putin for staying at home for the COP26 climate change conference, accusing his Russian counterpart of staying “mum on his willingness to do anything” to battle global warming. Biden’s tirade against Putin comes despite criticisms levied at the American leader, who was pictured last week driving around Rome with an 85-vehicle motorcade... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed plans to give workers across the country a week off, as the government proposes an 11pm curfew on hospitality in a bid to halt a sharp spike in the number of deaths from coronavirus. At a meeting of government officials on Wednesday, Putin gave the go-ahead for preparations to extend a two-day planned national holiday and keep many employees at home, with... 

A chilling archive of footage purportedly showing the abuse of inmates in Russian prison colonies has already sparked a probe and cost several officers their jobs. The group behind the leak tells RT there’s still more to come. A decade ago, Vladimir Osechkin was sentenced to seven years behind bars over fraud allegations brought by the daughter of an influential Moscow politician. Released quickly... 

Officials in Moscow have issued a sternly-worded ultimatum to YouTube’s parent company, Google, saying the video streaming site could face restrictions after it took down two channels run by RT’s German-language service. In the statement, released on Wednesday morning, the country’s national media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said that it “demands all restrictions be lifted from the YouTube channels... 

A man has been placed under house arrest in Russia after he beat up and concussed a doctor who inspected his wife and complimented her. The woman, a hijab-wearing Muslim, claimed the dermatologist dubbed her skin “beautiful.” The incident took place on September 21 in Nizhnevartovsk, Siberia. According to the doctor, Vladimir Zhirnokleev, he simply asked the woman to show her elbows, stomach,... 

“Looking for a second wife, a Slavic woman with blue eyes from a large family, who wants to give birth to as many children as God grants,” ads like this one are quite common on the Russian social network VKontakte. Find out more about how the Russian equivalent of Tinder for polygamous relationships works, why some Russian men need several partners and how they all get along in one family. Ivan,... 

Russia has allocated around 3.7 billion rubles ($50 million) to build a state-of-the-art space telescope with the ability to observe in ultraviolet, designed to see parts of the cosmos inaccessible to ground-based equipment. According to RIA Novosti, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and its subsidiary Lavochkin signed a contract to build the Spektr-UV, with work scheduled to be completed by the end... 

Russia’s leading cybersecurity and anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab is set to present in fall 2021 a secure mobile platform based on KasperskyOS for the industrial and corporate sector for pilot use, CEO Eugene Kaspersky said. “I will not tell you the buyers who will test our secure mobile device this fall. These are big, large corporations that are waiting for it, they need it so that... 

Those who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 are committing a sin they will have to repent for the rest of their lives. That’s according to the Russian Orthodox Church, whose spokesman said rejecting a jab is selfish. Speaking to TV channel Russia 24, the head of the Russia Orthodox Church’s Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion, explained that his parishioners... 

‘There Is No International Conspiracy’: Putin Condemns COVID-19 Pandemic Deniers Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday emphasised that there is no international conspiracy related to COVID-19 and called on people to listen to the advice of specialists and not give in to “non-sensical” rumours. Putin Stresses Only Vaccination Can Curb Spread of COVID-19, Opposes Nationwide...