Museum in the town of Nytva is home to 5000 towns of spoons. This musuem has spoons from 80 different countries.

Museum in Russia home to spoons from 80 different countries

A museum in the town of Nytva in the west of Russia is home to over 5,000 different types of spoons from 80 different countries. The Spoon Museum also uncovers the cutlery's interesting early connection to seashells.

Russia's spoon museum houses over 5,000 pieces

Russian President Putin inaugurated the building of new nuclear submarines and other warships on Monday, as part of a broad military modernization effort amid tensions with the West.

Russia begins construction of new nuclear submarines amid tensions with West

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Russia, China, Pakistan and the US are ready to serve as a mediator to establish peace and stability in Afghanistan. He expressed his views at a press briefing in Hungary.

Russia, China, US ready to serve as mediators in Afghanistan says Sergey Lavrov

Traditional Russian fairy tales have been brought to life at a museum in the Volgograd region. A family team has built huge, colourful sets to tell the stories and even dress up as some well-loved characters.

Russian fairy tales brought to life at museum

In Russia, east of the Ural mountains, the city of Yekaterinburg turns into an open-air art gallery. The annual street art festival brings in local and international artists and volunteers from all over Russi

Street art festival turns Russian city into open-air art gallery

Russia says Kabul is safer under the Taliban. Pakistan says Afghans have broken the shackles of slavery. China backs the Taliban to bring peace to Afghanistan. Why are countries rushing to legitimise the Taliban? Molly Gambhir tells you.

Gravitas: Why are Pakistan, China & Russia legitimising Taliban

A Moscow court has fined Google for failing to remove content banned in Russia. Recently, Russia has been taking legal action against foreign tech companies for not deleting content banned by the authorities.

Moscow court fines Google for failing to remove content banned in Russia

Russia's embassy in Kabul said that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a chopper full of cash and some money was left lying on the tarmac.

Russian Embassy: Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan with four cars, chopper full of cash

A water dropping plane of Russia has crashed in Turkey during a firefighting mission. The plane was carrying eight people, who have all been declared dead now. The Be-200 plane was deployed for a fire fighting mission.

Russia's water bomber plane crashes in Turkey; 8 declared dead

Russia recorded its record daily Covid-related deaths for the third consecutive day on Saturday with 819 new fatalities. The country has been struggling to control the widespread of the Delta variant of coronavirus while the vaccination rate has not picked up.

Russia records highest daily Covid deaths as people run away from vaccines

Former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, who retired from Mixed Martial Arts in October last year, has been signed by third-tier Russian soccer club FC Legion Dynamo.

Former UFC champion Khabib signed by Russian football club

Russian govt has arrested a leading hypersonic specialist. Koronov will be held in custody for 2 months on suspicion of state treason.

Russian govt arrests leading hypersonic specialist Alexander Kuranov

A helicopter carrying 16 tourists and crew on a sightseeing trip in Russia's far east crashed into a lake on Thursday, leaving eight people including a child feared dead and two others in serious condition.

Eight feared dead as Russia tourist helicopter crashes into lake

After holding talks with the Taliban, China is now conducting anti-terror drills with Russia to counter possible security threats by the terror outfit. Is Beijing confused about its approach or is it playing both sides? Palki Sharma has this to say.

Gravitas: What is China's game plan in Afghanistan?

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts mentioning that they were part of a disinformation campaign run out of Russia that also used social media influencers to peddle fake claims about coronavirus vaccines. In addition 243 Instagram accounts were also removed.

Facebook removes 144 accounts used to peddle fake claims about coronavirus vaccines

The smoke from devastating wildfires burning across the Siberian region of Russia has reached the North Pole, as per data published on the official site of NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).

Russian wildfire smoke 'reaches North Pole', shows satellite imagery

The brother of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was sentenced on Friday to a one-year suspended sentence for breaching coronavirus regulations earlier this year.

Russia hands Navalny's brother suspended sentence

Russia has blocked the websites of two media and one human rights group linked to self-exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky as authorities turn up the heat on the opposition ahead of parliamentary polls.

Russia blocks websites linked to Kremlin critic Khodorkovsky

The Russian military's chief of staff arrived in Central Asia Thursday as Russia held military drills in two ex-Soviet countries bordering Afghanistan where Kabul is struggling to contain a ferocious Taliban offensive.

Russia-led drills begin on Afghanistan border

Russia's capital city Moscow may have a serious competitor. A bustling metropolis has been built in Zvenigorod on the city's outskirts and it's got plans to expand. But Muscovites shouldn't be worried, as this new city is only 55 square metres big, and it's made out of Lego.

Vast Lego city built on outskirts of Moscow

A traditional painting technique is seeing a revival in one of Russia's major cities. Volkhov painting, as the name would suggest, originated in the Volkhov region. Its romantic history and distinct floral patterning are now proving popular among modern day Russians.

Romantic Russian flower-painting technique revived

The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said.

International Space Station thrown out of control by misfire of Russian module - NASA

Russia already has a military base in Tajikistan. Several Afghan soldiers had poured into Tajikistan after losing military posts along the border to the Taliban.

Russia secures Tajik's border amid Taliban rampage

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