RussiaToday: It’s a year since Moscow ruled out extraditing Britain’s main suspect in the murder of Aleksandr Litvinenko. No evidence has been produced by the British, which has led to a surge in conspiracy theories. Litvinenko, a former Russian security officer, died of poisoning in London on November 1st 2006. Veteran US investigative journalist, Edward […]
Tanks and barricades on Moscow’s streets: August 19, 1991 19:13 19/08/2010 In the early hours of August 19, 1991, senior Soviet officials who disagreed with Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms and the new version of the Union Treaty, set up the State Committee for State of Emergency.Read More – >>
Police in Moscow have arrested nearly 700 football fans during a game between Moscow Spartak and Zenit St Petersburg. The violence at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium happened at the start of the country’s Premier League. More than 500 of those detained were Zenit fans, after they threw seats at Spartak supporters. Fireworks and smoke cartridges were […]