Russia’s “geopolitical adversaries” had sought to “exterminate” anyone wanting good relations with Moscow, the president has said Kiev’s actions in Donbass between 2014 and 2022 were nothing short of “genocide,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. The post-Maidan coup authorities in Ukraine were determined to “physically” get rid of anyone who still supported the…

Although new strains of the virus may yet appear, it no longer has significant pandemic potential, Gennady Onishchenko says Covid-19 has lost its pandemic potential in the years since it was flagged by the World Health Organization, Russia’s former chief health inspector Gennady Onishchenko has said.

The outlet earlier reported that Moscow could drop its opposition to Kiev potentially joining the US-led military bloc A Bloomberg report claiming that Russia has signaled to the US that it is ready to withdraw its demand for Ukrainian neutrality in exchange for recognition of its new territories is completely false, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov…