Russia is launching a new module for the International Space Station (ISS), after more than a decade of delays. The Nauka module is set to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on top of a Proton-M rocket at around 1500 GMT today, along with a new robotic arm for the station created by the European Space Agency.

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally greenlit an operation by his country’s spy agency to support Donald Trump’s bid for the U.S. presidency in 2016, the Guardian reported, citing leaked Kremlin documents that highlight the depth of Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential elections, and claim the Kremlin had compromising material about Trump.

Exclusive: Documents suggest Russia launched secret multi-agency effort to interfere in US democracy

The computer code behind the massive ransomware attack by the Russian-speaking hacking ring REvil was written so that the malware avoids systems that primarily use Russian or related languages, according to a new report by a cybersecurity firm. It's long been known that some malicious software includes this feature, but the report by Trustwave SpiderLabs, obtained exclusively by NBC News, appears to be the first to publicly identify it as an element of the latest attack, which is believed to be the largest ransomware campaign ever.

France's champagne industry is up in arms after Russia enacted a new law forcing all foreign producers to label their bubbly "sparkling wine" while allowing domestic producers to continue to sell "shampanskoye".

An investigative report says that Russian operatives in the Central African Republic who had been billed as unarmed advisers are actually leading the fighting, including massacres of civilians.

In May, a mysterious marketing agency contacted French influencer Léo Grasset and made a strange request. The agency told Grasset, a popular science blogger, that it would pay him a "colossal" amount of money if he publicly cast doubt on the effectiveness of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine.

A Russian's foreign ministry spokeswoman described the shirt's logo as "an agonising artistic liberty".

Good luck with that.

Russia has raised interest rates in a bid to stem accelerating inflation which threatens to undermine its economic recovery. The Central Bank hiked rates to 5% in a meeting Friday, an increase from the previous level of 4.5%, and the second hike following an increase at the bank’s rate-setting meeting in March.

Slovakia on Thursday announced it was expelling three Russian diplomats, giving them a week to leave the country, saying it was acting in solidarity with neighbouring Czech Republic whose diplomatic…

Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said work had begun on the fist module of a new station, after officials warned that Russia was considering pulling out of the ISS, one of the few successful examples of cooperation with the West.

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Roscosmos is moving ahead with plans to build Russia’s first reusable rocket. Glancing at the design, it appears the Russian space agency doesn’t feel the need to reinvent the wheel, given the vehicle’s uncanny resemblance to the SpaceX Falcon 9.

Remember the aluminum plant that Russians said they would build in Kentucky after Mitch McConnell helped to lift sanctions? The Russians have cut off the cash.

Beginning in April, new iPhones and other iOS devices sold in Russia will include an extra setup step. Alongside questions about language preference and whether to enable Siri, users will see a screen that prompts them to install a list of apps from Russian developers. It's not just a regional peculiarity. It's a concession Apple has made to legal pressure from Moscow—one that could have implications far beyond Russia's borders.

Atrained KGB agent, Vladimir Putin knows how to hide his feelings, but in 2013, after former President Barack Obama described him looking like “the bored kid in the back of the classroom,” Putin let it be known that he was furious. And rightly so: kids in the back of the room are rarely ambitious. Putin, from day one of his rule 21 years ago, has had big, ambitious plans for himself and for Russia.

Mention Russian cinema to most people and they will, if anything, think of the sturm und drang of Eisenstein or the burdensome beauty of late Tarkovsky.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was set to throw a Zoom party in quarantine to celebrate his 90th birthday on Tuesday, as President Vladimir Putin hailed him as an "outstanding statesman" who influenced the course of history.