Russia
13 Mar
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Ukraine was upping its attacks on Russian territory in order to interfere with the upcoming presidential elections.
13 Mar
Russia’s Defense Ministry has confirmed a military transport plane caught fire and crashed in the Ivanovo region northeast of Moscow yesterday.
12 Mar
Russia on Tuesday shut schools temporarily in the city of Kursk near the Ukraine border, after attacks on the region by pro-Kyiv militias and an increase in Ukrainian drone strikes. The news that schools would close until the end of the week followed an announcement by Moscow that it had deployed warplanes, rockets and artillery…
11 Mar
President Vladimir Putin has no doubt he will secure another term in Russia's election. The vote that leaves him in suspense, and could do more to change his policies, will occur eight months later in the United States.
9 Mar
Russia said on Saturday it had destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones over its southern regions overnight, mostly in the Rostov area bordering Ukraine.
7 Mar
Nigeria will prioritise its national interests and will not succumb to external pressure from the West regarding cooperation with Russia, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar, said. Tuggar said this in an interview with Sputnik in the course of his three-day working visit to Russia from March 5-7. The minister stated that Nigeria welcomes alternatives to…
7 Mar
Nigeria will apply for membership of BRICS in the next two years, the country's foreign affairs minister Yusuf Tuggar told Russian-owned Sputnik on Wednesday. Tuggar is on a three-day working visit to Russia, where he has held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. BRICS group, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South…
6 Mar
The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called on Wednesday for Russians to stage an election day protest against President Vladimir Putin by forming long queues outside voting stations.
4 Mar
The 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Monday, expressed his disappointment that Nigeria, a country that was once economically self-sufficient, now has to rely on food assistance from a war-torn country like Ukraine. “As laudable as Ukraine's kind gesture is, it speaks volumes for us as a people endowed with all…
3 Mar
Hundreds of Alexei Navalny supporters queued to lay flowers and pay tribute to the deceased opposition leader on Sunday, in a significant show of support for the anti-corruption campaigner, who died last month in an Arctic prison colony.
1 Mar
The funeral of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is due to take place in Moscow on Friday, with mourners braving the risk of arrest to come and pay their respects.
1 Mar
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was so loathed by President Vladimir Putin that the Kremlin leader refused to say his name in public. Navalny, whose death in an Arctic prison was announced on February 16, was Putin's most prolific critic for over a decade, blasting what he called rampant corruption and refusing to back down…
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