Many Western countries have already launched mass cyber attacks against Russian infrastructure ahead of the upcoming presidential election, a senior diplomat at the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. Ambassador-at-Large Gennady Askaldovich announced this at Tuesday’s session of the Federation Council’s committee for protecting state sovereignty and preventing meddling into Russia’s internal affairs.

Moscow plans to develop major infrastructure systems that will link the country to South and Eastern Asia, the president has said The coming decade will see Russia greatly expanding its infrastructure, particularly in railroad transport, President Vladimir Putin told a major industry gathering in Moscow on Friday. The planned projects will have an impact not…

Moscow has torpedoed Western-backed proposal to exclude its precious stones from global markets Russia, the world’s biggest producer of diamonds, has managed to foil a Western-backed attempt to prevent the country’s gems from being sold on the global market, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing newly published letters.