News about Moscow on Feedimo

Italy and Russia spar over alleged coronavirus spies

Apr 03, 2020

Italy was engaged in a war of words with Russia on Friday over allegations Moscow hid spies among doctors it had sent to the country's coronavirus epicentre near Milan.

Headlines

Putin working remotely after meeting infected doctor: Kremlin

Apr 01, 2020

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has decided to handle his duties remotely, the Kremlin said Wednesday, after the head of the country's main coronavirus hospital tested positive following a meeting with the president.

Headlines

A Doctor Who Met Putin Just Tested Positive, and Russia’s COVID-19 Crackdowns Could Get Real Ugly

Mar 31, 2020

MOSCOW—Amid a growing uproar in newly locked-down Russia, news broke on Tuesday that a doctor President Vladimir Putin met with just a week ago during a highly publicized visit to a coronavirus treatment facility has now tested positive for the infection himself.

Headlines

Trump suggests US should treat Germany as an enemy because of World War II

Mar 30, 2020

Donald Trump is suggesting the United States should treat Germany more like an enemy because the two countries were adversaries in World War II as the president again lobbied for closer US-Russian relations.

Headlines

Moscow goes into lockdown, rest of Russia braces for same

Mar 30, 2020

The Russian capital, Moscow, on Monday woke up to a lockdown obliging most of its 13 million residents to stay home, and many other regions of the vast country quickly followed suit to stem the spread of the new coronavirus.

Headlines

Kremlin Fights U.S. Sanctions, Backs Maduro in Rosneft Deal

Mar 29, 2020

(Bloomberg) -- The Kremlin’s sudden shift of ownership of multi-billion-dollar oil projects in Venezuela shields oil giant Rosneft PJSC from further U.

World

Moscow says coronavirus outbreak enters new phase as residents go out to brave risk

Mar 29, 2020

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Sunday that the coronavirus outbreak had entered a new phase as the total number of cases in the Russian capital exceeded 1,000 with many Muscovites going out despite a plea to stay home.

World

Coronavirus Comes to the Kremlin

Mar 27, 2020

After months of denials, Russia is facing a new reality with respect to the rapid spread of the coronavirus in the country.

Sport

Coe and Ovett's Olympic debt to bureaucrat who defied Thatcher | Andy Bull

Mar 28, 2020

British Olympic Association chairman Sir Denis Follows was determined not to join the Moscow Games boycott in 1980, to the fury of the prime minister

World

Dour Moscow mayor сomes to fore as 'PM for coronavirus'

Mar 27, 2020

At a televised meeting with Vladimir Putin, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin flatly told the President that official figures on COVID-19 cases were far from the reality.

World

Russia confirms coronavirus case in Putin's administration, tightens curbs

Mar 27, 2020

The Kremlin confirmed a coronavirus case in President Vladimir Putin's administration on Friday and the government said measures imposed in Moscow to fight the virus should be extended across Russia.

Headlines

Tourists stranded in Asia by canceled flights, shut borders

Mar 27, 2020

From the sun-soaked beaches of Thailand to the foothills of Mount Everest in Nepal, tourists across Asia are finding their dream vacations have turned into travel nightmares as airlines cancel flights and countries close their borders in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Headlines

Flying aid to virus-hit Italy, Moscow flexes soft power

Mar 26, 2020

Since the coronavirus took hold in Europe, Moscow has sent planes of virus experts and aid to Italy while fighting accusations of spreading disinformation, flexing its "soft power" in various ways during the pandemic.

Headlines

Russia has no 'clear picture' of extent of virus outbreak: official

Mar 24, 2020

Russian authorities do not know the full extent of the coronavirus outbreak across the country and should step up measures to stem the pandemic, a top official said Tuesday.

Headlines

Russian President Putin dons hazmat suit as Moscow mayor says coronavirus outbreak is worse than it looks

Mar 24, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin wore a hazmat suit and respirator on Tuesday during a visit to a hospital treating coronavirus patients, and the mayor of Moscow said the outbreak in the Russian capital was much worse than official figures showed.

Headlines

Russia Swore It Whipped the Virus, and Fox and CNN Bought It

Mar 24, 2020

As the world reels from the novel coronavirus pandemic, Russia is doing its best to turn global turmoil into propaganda fodder.

World

Kremlin says coronavirus aid to Italy is not a ploy to get EU sanctions lifted

Mar 23, 2020

The Kremlin said on Monday that medical assistance Russia was providing to Italy to help it battle the new coronavirus was not part of an attempt to get Rome help lift EU sanctions on Moscow.

World

The Russians Are Coming Again, and They’re Winning

Mar 23, 2020

On a warm fall evening in late 2018, I received a message on Twitter from a group of self-described “anonymous hackers” who claimed they’d swiped Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s database.

World

Russia deports Chinese for violating self-quarantine rules

Mar 20, 2020

Authorities in Moscow are detaining and deporting Chinese nationals for violating quarantine procedures the city government mandated in response to the coronavirus, according to court filings and a lawyer working on at least 15 cases.

Headlines

Putin Worries Coronavirus Could Screw Up His Constitutional ‘Coronation’

Mar 17, 2020

MOSCOW—Around the world, more than 5,000 people have died from COVID-19 and European countries are closing their borders one after another, but authorities in Russia—adjacent to both Europe and China—continue acting as if people here in the motherland have some kind of magical immunity.

World

Saudi Arabia floods markets with $25 oil as Russia fight escalates

Mar 13, 2020

Saudi Arabia is flooding markets with oil at prices as low as $25 per barrel, specifically targeting big refiners of Russian oil in Europe and Asia, in an escalation of its fight with Moscow for market share, five trading sources said on Friday.

Headlines

Putin Saw a World in Turmoil and Decided It Needs More Putin

Mar 12, 2020

(Bloomberg) -- Vladimir Putin changed his mind and backed a plan to allow him to run for two more presidential terms because of the current turbulent period in the world, his spokesman said, in the Kremlin’s first public explanation of a move that would let him rule until 2036.

Headlines

Russia reaches out to OPEC as Riyadh opens oil taps

Mar 10, 2020

Russia said Tuesday it was open to renewing cooperation with the OPEC oil cartel even as kingpin Saudi Arabia escalated a price war with Moscow by announcing it would flood markets with new supplies.

World

Saudi Arabia, Russia raise stakes in oil standoff

Mar 10, 2020

DUBAI/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will raise its crude supply to a record high in April, the kingdom announced on Tuesday, as it ratcheted up a standoff with Moscow over market share and appeared to reject Russian overtures for new talks.

Headlines

Russia steps in to support tumbling ruble

Mar 09, 2020

The Russian ruble tumbled Monday to a four-year low amid a crash in oil prices as authorities rushed to assure the public the country has accumulated enough funds to withstand the blow.

Headlines

As demand crunch deepens, how far can oil plummet?

Mar 07, 2020

Oil prices have plummeted by more than 30 percent since the start of the year but for producers the worst may be yet to come, warn experts, as the coronavirus epidemic weighs heavily on demand.

Headlines

Sen. Ted Cruz Hatches Plan to Curtail the International Criminal Court’s Power

Mar 05, 2020

Sen. Ted Cruz Hatches Plan to Curtail the International Criminal Court’s Power

World

Moscow imposes 'high alert regime' to stem coronavirus outbreak

Mar 05, 2020

Moscow authorities announced a "high alert regime" and imposed extra measures on Thursday to prevent a spread of the coronavirus in the Russian capital.

Headlines

Top Green Party Candidate Says He’ll Run Against Dems—Even If They Nominate Sanders

Mar 05, 2020

In both 2000 and 2016, the Green Party garnered enough votes in enough swing states that, had those votes gone to the Democrats they would have prevented George W.

Headlines

Russia says rebel positions in Syria's Idlib have merged with Turkish army posts

Mar 03, 2020

Russia's Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday that fortified rebel positions in Syria's Idlib province had merged with Turkish observation posts, and that artillery attacks on nearby civilian areas and Russia's air base in Syria had become daily.

Sport

From the Hungarians to Wenger – how Europeans shaped English football

Mar 04, 2020

As part of our This is Europe week we look at how the game has been influenced by teams, managers and players from the continent

World

Europe Risks New Migration Meltdown as Erdogan Opens Floodgates

Mar 01, 2020

(Bloomberg) -- Europe risks a repeat of a migration crisis that five years ago tested its political limits and physical borders as increasing numbers of refugees gather anew on its doorstep.

Sport

Chess: Nigel Short checkmates three in a row at Bunratty weekender

Feb 28, 2020

Meanwhile at Moscow Aeroflot, one of the world’s strongest opens, a 14-year-old and a 12-year-old stunned the grandmasters

World

Moscow rounds up stray animals, kills rats over coronavirus fears

Feb 27, 2020

Moscow authorities are rounding up stray animals and exterminating rats as a precaution against the new coronavirus, actions that animal rights campaigners decried as cruel and scientifically groundless.

Media

DAU. Natasha review – an exquisitely sinister study of Soviet oppression

Feb 26, 2020

As part of a colossal art project, Ilya Khrzhanovsky has made an intimately eerie examination of the banality of evil

Headlines

China to Russia: End discriminatory coronavirus measures against Chinese

Feb 26, 2020

China's embassy in Russia has demanded authorities in Moscow end what it said are discriminatory anti-coronavirus measures against Chinese nationals, saying they are damaging relations and alarming Chinese residents of the Russian capital.

Headlines

Putin Sent Her Activist Boyfriend to the Arctic Circle. Now She Wants to Go, Too

Feb 24, 2020

MOSCOW—Few people are familiar with Novaya Zemlya, a very obscure archipelago above the Arctic Circle that is controlled by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the infamous Soviet spy agency, the KGB.

Headlines

US staged 'limited' nuclear battle against Russia in war game

Feb 24, 2020

The Pentagon has briefed about the simulated exchange in a move that could signal readiness to fight and win nuclear conflictThe US conducted a military exercise last week which simulated a “limited” nuclear exchange with Russia, a senior Pentagon official has confirmed.

Headlines

Putin Sent Her Activist Boyfriend to Siberia. Now She Wants to Go, Too

Feb 24, 2020

MOSCOW—Few people are familiar with Novaya Zemlya, a very obscure archipelago above the Arctic Circle that is controlled by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the infamous Soviet spy agency, the KGB.

Headlines

Moscow targets Chinese with raids amid virus fears

Feb 23, 2020

Bus drivers in Moscow kept their WhatsApp group chat buzzing with questions this week about what to do if they spotted passengers who might be from China riding with them in the Russian capital.

Headlines

'American voters should decide American elections - not Putin': Trump accused of threatening democracy after fresh warnings over Russian interference

Feb 21, 2020

US intelligence officials warned Congress that Russia plans to interfere in 2020 Democratic elections and challenges in November, but officials in Moscow are dismissing the allegations as "paranoid" while Washington leaders condemn Donald Trump's reported efforts to dismiss the threat.

Sport

Chess: Russia to admit China's world title candidates despite travel ban

Feb 21, 2020

Ding Liren and Wang Hao to arrive early and prepare in isolated country house after Moscow grants them “humanitarian visas” ahead of the event in Ekaterinburg

World

Britain First's Paul Golding Charged Under The Terrorism Act

Feb 21, 2020

The leader of far-right political group Britain First has been charged with an offence under the Terrorism Act after refusing to give police access to his phone.

Headlines

Trump Offered Assange Pardon if He Covered Up Russian Hack, WikiLeaks Founder’s Lawyer Claims

Feb 19, 2020

LONDON—A lawyer for Julian Assange has claimed in court that President Donald Trump offered to pardon Assange if the WikiLeaks founder agreed to help cover up Russia’s involvement in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee.

Headlines

Turkish president says a new military intervention in Syria is 'imminent'

Feb 19, 2020

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday told his party's lawmakers it is "only a matter of time" before he launches a new military intervention in neighboring Syria's Idlib province if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad does not withdraw his forces from the area.

Headlines

Mexican arrested in US for Russian spying

Feb 18, 2020

A Mexican has been arrested in the US city of Miami for spying on "a US government source" on behalf of Russia, the Department of Justice alleged Tuesday.

Headlines

Turkey hits back at Moscow over Idlib claims

Feb 15, 2020

Turkey on Saturday hit back at Russian accusations of failing to honour a 2018 deal by insisting it carried out its responsibilities in Idlib, Syria's last major rebel bastion.

Headlines

Soviet spy hailed by Russia for 'saving Krakow' dies at 103

Feb 12, 2020

Russia on Thursday announced the death at 103 of veteran Soviet spy Alexei Botyan, whom it hailed as a hero for "saving" the Polish city of Krakow from the Nazis, although Poland disputes Moscow's version of events.

World

Putin Squeezes Belarus Strongman in Bid to Skirt Term Limits

Feb 12, 2020

(Bloomberg) -- Vladimir Putin’s surprise firing of Russia’s government and unveiling of constitutional changes that would weaken the presidency may only be Plan B for retaining power after his final term ends in 2024.

Politic

Senate Report Criticizes Response to Russian Meddling and Partly Blames McConnell

Feb 06, 2020

WASHINGTON -- Republican congressional leaders' refusal to publicly acknowledge Russian election interference in 2016 contributed to a watered-down response by the Obama administration in the midst of the presidential campaign, a Senate report released Thursday found.

MOSCOW

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.

Around the World

> Latest News in Media

Sports