RIA Novosty / Russia

Russia possesses the necessary technology to build helicopter carriers similar to the French-made Mistral-class ships, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Kozhin said.

Three separate launch pads for Soyuz-2 rockets will be built at the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia after its renovation is over by 2019, a defense ministry spokesman said Thursday.

European Union leaders are due to begin a tense summit on Thursday evening with their counterparts from Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus, 18 months after the last meeting triggered the crisis in Ukraine.

The GDP drop will reach its peak in the third quarter of 2015, and by the end of the year the situation will improve, the Russian finance minister said.

Sanctions and the currency rate of the dollar to the ruble forced changes in the Russian space program.

HeliRussia-2015, an international exhibition showcasing the latest achievements in the global helicopter industry, opens in Moscow on May 21.

Russia is sending Thursday yet another convoy to Ukraine's crisis-torn Donbass.

The Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine previously said that Crimean prosecutors, including Natalia Poklonskaya, are suspected of treason and declared wanted.

Russia’s decision to revoke the transit authorization for NATO goods to Afghanistan has revealed the fact that the US cannot act without Russia in the current geopolitical reality, DWN reported.

Firms from Cyprus, Greece, and Hungary - the leading critics of EU sanctions - will be first in line to restart food exports if relations improve, a senior Russian official said on Tuesday.

A project to build advanced Gremyashchy class stealth corvettes will be closed due to insufficient supply of foreign-made components, the shipbuilder said Wednesday.

The feeling of patriotism is rapidly growing in the Russian society. The US and EU policy towards Russia makes many people believe that Western countries are trying “to force Russia into a box” and that this is “a time of great opportunity” for the country, the Christian Science Monitor wrote.

A Lithuanian spy was caught red-handed in Moscow while receiving a secret document from a Russian citizen, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said Wednesday.

Primorsky Territory Governor Vladimir Miklushevsky has announced that Russia's southeastern Primorye region now has runways able to accommodate the Airbus A380 aircraft.

A Russian shipyard is currently building the first hydrofoil vessels since the Soviet era, a source in the shipbuilding industry told RIA Novosti Tuesday.

The Verkhovna Rada’s decision to suspend foreign debt payments is illegitimate, adviser of the Russian President Sergey Glazyev said.

The Western policy towards Russia is not always reasonable. Western countries have always talked about the intensification and extension of sanctions, and rarely discussed their possible easing, once some progress in Ukraine is achieved, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said.

On May 16, Kiev detained two Russian nationals during clashes in the Donbass region. The two men were wounded and then captured by Ukrainian law enforcement officers.

Russia and Belarus will jointly develop a new short-range anti-aircraft missile complex, it was announced on Tuesday.

All attempts by Western countries to put political and economic pressure on Russia have failed. If anything, they have helped Vladimir Putin to become an even more popular leader, Boulevard Voltaire said.