Thanks to nostalgia, the literary legacy of the USSR has a long afterlife.

Two cosmonauts completed the first in a series of spacewalks needed to outfit a newly-added Russian module to the International Space Station. Expedition 65 flight engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos on Friday (Sept. 2) connected power and data cables for the new multipurpose laboratory module (MLM), also referred to as "Nauka" (or "Science" in Russian).

Russia's reaction to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

I blew the whistle on inauthentic behavior at Facebook. But authentic misinformation is the bigger problem in the west

Experts say the one-time space leader is swiftly becoming a liability for the countries it works with, particularly on the International Space Station.

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.

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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".

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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.