RIA Novosty / Russia

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) officially brought charges against a Lithuanian national, arrested on May 20, in Moscow while receiving a secret document from a Russian resident. The man was accused of espionage activities and brought into custody.

Snap air and air defense drills in Russia's Central Military District are aimed at testing the capability to counter threats coming from the Central-Asian strategic direction, the Russian General Staff said Tuesday.

The first avatar robot may be created in Russia within the next 10 years, deputy head of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects Sergei Gabruk said Tuesday.

Moscow and Beijing are planning to enhance their cooperation in space research and conduct joint manned space missions, particularly, to the moon. The US does not trust these plans, fearing that China and Russia could work on an anti-satellite weapon.

Marine Le Pen was seen entering the building of the Russian Parliament as she arrived for meetings in Moscow.

The Islamic State militant group’s foreign-language media branch has launched an online magazine in Russian to target the country’s large Muslim community, a US-based monitoring organization said Tuesday.

As Great Britain has now invited Russia to participate in the fight against terrorism, the West seems to have realized that confrontation with Russia has no good endings. However, both countries are organizing major military maneuvers to preserve the facade of the conflict and not to give the impression of weakness, DWN wrote.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has officially informed the Russian Embassy in Kiev that access to the two Russian nationals detained by Ukrainian forces would be granted, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry envoy Dmytros Kuleba said at a briefing on Tuesday.

The BRICS countries – Russia, India, China, Brazil and South Africa – find themselves in a special risk zone, facing the threat of artificial exacerbation of ethnic tensions inside each of them, the head of Russia’s Security Council warned Tuesday.

On Saturday, the Security Service of Ukraine disseminated information to the press that Ukraine had never received a request from Moscow to meet with the two Russians detained on May 16.

Tanks and armored vehicles, based on the Armata and Bumerang combat platforms, air defense missile batteries and other military hardware will soon be deployed in Russia’s Arctic regions, the Southern Military District’s press service announced on Tuesday.

Russian lawmakers have drafted a bill making it a criminal offense subject to imprisonment of up to two years for withholding information on genetically modified organisms (GMO) in products, local media reported Tuesday.

Russia's first laser system specializing in the production tasks of ship repair and addressing the import substitution of ship parts will be built at the Dalzavod Ship Repair Center, part of the Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center.

Russia's first series nuclear-powered icebreaker will be laid down in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday, the Baltic Shipyard announced.

Russia has done everything possible to create good conditions for Ukrainian refugees who fled their homeland amid hostilities, UN Refugees Agency (UNHCR) representative in Russia Baisa Vak-Voya told journalists Monday.

The Kerch ferry reconstruction has been completed while its passenger throughput has been increased up to 50,000 people per day, according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

According to citizenship department head at Russia’s Federal Migration Service, number of asylum requests in Russia has surged by nearly 100 times since early 2014.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sad that Russia must create a new generation of weapons and military equipment, train new, highly skilled professionals, strengthened country's position on the global market.

A new robotic firefighting vehicle, based on a battle tank platform, has been put into service with the Russian Armed Forces.

Igor Komarov, the director general of the United Rocket and Space Corporation, said that he discussed issues on the construction of the Vostochny Space Center with Russian President Vladimir Putin.