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MOSCOW( Reuters)-The Kremlin on Thursday said Russia could not be forced to respect the European Parliament's decision to award an annual human rights prize to jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny.... The European Parliament on Wednesday awarded Navalny the prize, named after Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, for his efforts in fighting corruption in Russia. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Thursday told reporters the decision had been made by people without reliable data.... ( Rep

MOSCOW( Reuters)-Russia reported 25, 033 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 5, 410 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 5, 783, 333. The government coronavirus task force said 749 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 143, 002. The federal statistics agency has kept a separate death toll.... It said on Friday it had recorded around 290, 000 deaths related to COVID-19 between April 2020 and

MOSCOW( Reuters)-A gas explosion destroyed part of a five-storey residential building in the Russian city of Naberezhnye Chelny 930 km( 580 miles) east of Moscow, the emergency service said on Monday.At least four people were wounded, two remained buried under the debris and more than 30 others were evacuated from the site, the emergency service said in a preliminary report. Video footage showed the roof and part of two upper floors collapsed, while the lights were still on in other flats in the

MOSCOW( Reuters)-Russia has suspended movement of commercial vessels in the Azov sea until further notice, but kept its ports in the Black Sea open for navigation, its officials and five grain industry sources said on Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised" a special military operation" against Ukraine on Thursday to eliminate what he called a serious threat, saying his aim was to demilitarise Russia's southern neighbour. Russia, the world's largest wheat exporter, mainly ships it

MOSCOW( Reuters)-Belarusian state-owned airline Belavia said on Friday it would stop allowing citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen to board flights from Turkey to Belarus at the request of Turkish authorities amid a migrant standoff between Belarus and Poland.... The European Union says Belarus is encouraging thousands fleeing war-torn parts of the world to try to cross its borders and may impose new sanctions on Belarus and airlines ferrying the migrants as soon as Monday. The bloc has accused Be

17-19 contest to land a blow against the ruling United Russia party.... A court has also banned Yandex from using the phrase" smart voting" in its keyword search system, but the firm says it plans to appeal against that ruling.... Google and Apple did not respond to requests for comment....

MOSCOW( Reuters)-A Russian Aeroflot airliner flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow was forced to change altitude over the Black Sea because a NATO CL-600 reconnaissance plane crossed its designated flight path, Russia's state aviation authority said on Saturday.... The crew were able to see the other plane when they passed in the sky, it said in a separate statement.... The aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said a smaller CL-650 aircraft flying from the Black Sea resort of Sochi to Skopje had also had

Instead, it marked the latest installment of the twice-weekly" Kennedy Evening Broadcast," one way that the scion of the famous political clan and candidate for the US Senate is trying to maintain contact with voters.... " While many folks have done parts of this before, nobody has ever had to run an entirely online campaign before," said Amanda Litman, executive director for Run for Something, which helps progressive under-40 candidates.... " We're all figuring it out together." Read More The

The British government says the Russian state was behind the hoax, which it says was designed to sow false information and embarrass Britain.... The conflict simply explained Sign The Independent’s petition to help the people of Ukraine “ People should be very sceptical about reporting on, and accepting as real, any part of these Russian state-doctored clips, ” it said in a statement.... It said Britain had “ enough weapons systems to defend both U.K. national security and maintain our commitm