Tag Archives: Russian

The International Olympic Committee’s executive board will decide Tuesday whether Russia will be allowed to send a team to the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea. Here’s a look at how we arrived at this point and what could come next. CBC | Sports News

A RUSSIAN fighter made an “unsafe” intercept of a US aircraft over the Black Sea, the Pentagon has announced. Daily Express :: News Feed

The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year that the targets were in the Kremlin’s crosshairs, The Associated Press has found. CBC | World News

Russia has finally confirmed the release of “extremely high contamination” of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 in the southern Urals in late September. Here’s what you need to know. CBC | World News

New indications that Donald Trump Jr. may soon find his name on Russia investigation Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment docket emerged this week, as two previously unrevealed Russian contacts with Donald Trump’s son came to light, raising new questions about the younger Trump’s possible involvement in a wide-ranging collusion scheme between Russia and the Trump campaign to rig the 2016 ...

Legislation passed Wednesday by Russia’s parliament would give the country’s justice department the power to designate non-Russian media outlets in the country as ‘foreign agents,’ writes Chris Brown. CBC | World News

Experts are reportedly baffled by the testimony of Boriska Kipriyanovich, a Russian prodigy from the city of Volgograd, who claims that he had lived on a “war ravaged” planet Mars long ago before being reborn on Earth. Scientists are reportedly baffled by the 20-year-old’s detailed knowledge of space and conditions on other planets because there is nothing in his educational ...

100 years after the Bolshevik revolution, Russia is very different from what it was under communism. But young idealists and some older Russians who remember life under the Soviet system look to the ideology for answers to inequity and high-level corruption. CBC | World News

An enormous new leak of tax-haven financial records dubbed the Paradise Papers is laying bare financial secrets of the world’s elite — including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief fundraiser, three former Canadian prime ministers and more than 120 other politicians across the globe. CBC | World News

A Russian helicopter that crashed off Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago with eight people on board last month was raised Saturday from the seabed. CBC | World News