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On Thursday, Russian officials announced that a Soyuz rocket would blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 5 this year, carrying an actor and a director to shoot what is hoped will be the first feature film made in outer space. Yulia Peresild, a 36-year old actress …

The UN believes that “Sputnik V is one the key elements that will allow us to solve the vaccination problem,” Guterres said following talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday. Guterres also said that he’s aware that WHO’s process to approve the vaccine is “ongoing”. The …

In the video, posted online after the assailant was captured, Galyaviev can be seen walking up to the school and pointing a weapon at someone just outside the building. Another clip, also published by Mash, shows the killer walking down a Kazan street, carrying a firearm in his hand. Filmed …

Nearly 100GB of data was stolen from Colonial Pipeline’s network over two hours on Thursday – part of a “double-extortion” scheme that is reportedly the group’s “hallmark,” sources involved in the company’s investigation told Bloomberg on condition of anonymity since the matter “is not public.” The Georgia-based company was then …

Russia held parades and ceremonies across the country on May 9 to honor the estimated 27 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives in the war against Hitlerite forces which came to an end in 1945. Away from parades such as those on Moscow’s iconic Red Square, F1 driver Mazepin …

There were worries that the aircraft would be grounded due to the cloudy weather, but the planes were cleared for flight at the last moment.   The aerial parade was led by Mi-26 heavy transport helicopters, which were closely followed by Mi-35M and Mi-24 gunships, as well as Ka-52 attack helicopters. …

These celebrations are often portrayed in the West as an effort to rehabilitate the USSR and its wartime leader, Joseph Stalin. In reality though, Moscow is far from eager to rewrite history, and most Russians are more than capable of commemorating the Soviet victory without endorsing Stalinism. However, as preparations …

Officers investigating the 28-year-old social media star’s disappearance revealed on Thursday that her corpse had been discovered in the woods near the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. Identifying the body reportedly took two weeks, and she had not initially been reported missing. A passing driver, on the road to the country’s …

The Washington Capitals’ Tom Wilson hit Pavel Buchnevich on the back of the head before slamming Artemi Panarin, leaving the Rangers’ key player with a lower body injury that will keep him out for the rest of the season. Wilson, who has previously been banned for 14 games among a shocking …

Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin tweeted out a map of the possible area of impact, anywhere up to 41 degrees north and south of the equator. The errant booster will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere on May 8 at the earliest, Roscosmos said, citing current tracking information and preliminary calculations. The Long …