#Politics of Russia

A week after Russian President Putin thanked US President Trump and the CIA for their warnings about a possible terror attack in St.Petersburg, TASS reports that an explosion in a storage locker in a busy supermarket in St. Petersburg has left 10 injured and dozens more evacuated. Officials are

Authore by Leonid Brershidky via Bloomberg.com, During Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference on Thursday, a friendly journalist asked Putin whether the escalating tension in relations with the U.S. and the crumbling of arms control treaties would draw Russia into an

Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review, Trump saved St. Petersburg after the CIA tipped off the FSB about an impending terrorist attack there. Russia immediately acted on the information and arrested several terrorist suspects who were said to be plotting an attack on the famous Kazan

Perhaps because he fears retaliation for his government's deliberate - and unsubstantiated - interference in last year's US presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin is apparently worried that foreign powers might interfere in Russia’s upcoming federal election. So, nearly a year

Vladimir Putin has declared his intention to run for a fourth term as Russian president in 2018. Ending months of speculation over his plans to rule Russia, Putin made his announcement at the GAZ factory in Nizhny Novgorod after being asked by a worker to confirm his intentions, after declining