PARIS (AFP) — When Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider won silver in the women’s tennis doubles on Sunday, they became the first Russians to win a medal at the Olympics in Paris. Italy’s Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini defeated them in three sets in the championship match while they wereRead More →

(Reuters) – Due to Google’s reluctance to improve its hardware in Russia and its refusal to unblock Russian media outlets, YouTube speeds on desktop computers in Russia are expected to drastically decrease, a senior politician with ties to the authorities stated on Friday. Russia has punished Alphabet’s Google multiple timesRead More →

(Reuters) – By 2030, Russia hopes to have the four main modules of its new orbiting space station built, the country’s space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday. The directors of 19 businesses engaged in building the new station, together with Roscosmos chief Yuri Borisov, approved the schedule. The organisation reaffirmedRead More →

(AP) – Russian bombings on towns throughout Ukraine killed at least 12 people on Saturday, prompting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to ask for “accelerated” Western weaponry supply. Russian bombings in eastern Ukraine killed at least 11 people on Saturday, while rescuers in the city of Dnipro sifted through wreckage afterRead More →

(Reuters) MOSCOW According to Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, Russia expresses its deepest worry over the significant escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We call on the Palestinian and Israeli sides to implement an immediate ceasefire, renounce violence, exercise the necessary restraint and establish, with the assistanceRead More →

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, declared on Sunday that Kyiv’s counteroffensive had “failed” as he began a two-day meeting with Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and a close ally. The two established leaders have not spoken since Lukashenko put an end to the biggest challenge to Putin’s moreRead More →