Sri Lanka scraps long-term visa for Russians, Ukrainians
- 25-Feb-2024
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka said Sunday it had ended long-term tourist visa extensions for thousands of Russians and Ukrainians using the policy to live on the island since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “The government is not granting further visa extensions,” Commissioner-General of Immigration Harsha Ilukpitiya told AFP, giving a March 7 deadline for departure. “The flight […]
Vladimir Putin urges Russians to have more kids
- 16-Feb-2024
Russian families must produce at least two children for the sake of the nation’s ethnic survival, and three or more if it is to develop and thrive, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Russia has suffered heavy but undisclosed casualties since launching its war in Ukraine nearly two years ago, and hundreds of thousands of […]
Russians ‘behind schedule’ in Donbas: Pentagon
- 30-Apr-2022
WASHINGTON: The Russian campaign to seize control of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine is moving slowly and behind schedule, a Pentagon official said Friday. Stiff resistance from Ukrainian troops and caution after Russia’s failure to capture Kyiv has led to “slow and uneven progress” in Donbas, the official told reporters. “We believe that essentially […]
Russians return to Earth after filming first movie in space
- 17-Oct-2021
A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit. Yulia Peresild, 37, and Klim Shipenko, 38, landed as scheduled on Kazakhstan’s steppe at 0436 GMT, according to footage broadcast live by Russia’s Roscosmos space agency. […]
Rich Russians flock to Florida to deliver American babies
- 25-Jan-2019
So-called ‘birth tourism’ to the United States isn’t just popular with Russians. Expectant Chinese parents have for years travelled to California.
UK charges two Russians for attempted murder of Skripals, blames Moscow
- 05-Sep-2018
Britain charged two Russians in absentia on Wednesday with the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter, saying the suspects were military intelligence officers almost certainly acting on orders from high up in the Russian state.
UK names two Russians for attempted murder of Skripals with nerve agent
- 05-Sep-2018
British prosecutors identified two Russians who they accused of trying to murder former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a military-grade nerve agent in England.
Trump says his son sought information on Clinton from Russians
- 06-Aug-2018
WASHINGTON; US President Donald Trump acknowledged on Sunday that his son met with Russians in 2016 at Trump Tower to get information on his election opponent Hillary Clinton, saying it was “totally legal” and “done all the time in politics.” The Republican president had previously said the meeting was about the adoption of Russian children […]
US sanctions Russians over ‘malign activity’
- 06-Apr-2018
WASHINGTON: The United States sanctioned 24 Russian people, including oligarchs and government officials, and 14 groups on Friday over what it called a range of malign activities by Moscow to subvert Western democracies, the Treasury Department said. “The Russian government engages in a range of malign activity around the globe, including continuing to occupy Crimea […]
US expels 60 Russian ‘spies’ over UK nerve attack
- 26-Mar-2018
Donald Trump has ordered the expulsion of 60 alleged Russian spies from the United States in response to a nerve agent attack on an ex-spy in the English city of Salisbury.