5+ hour, 45+ min ago  (290+ words) Libyan authorities on Thursday said efforts to tow a Russian gas tanker, abandoned after a series of explosions, had failed due to bad weather and that the vessel remained adrift in the Mediterranean. The Arctic Metagaz was abandoned in the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (169+ words) The first Russian-language translation of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's autobiography will go on sale in Russia this month, its publisher AST told Russian media on Wednesday. Originally published in Arabic in 2019 and then later in Persian,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (393+ words) The United States has lifted sanctions on three Russian cargo vessels, including two container ships operated by FESCO, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said Tuesday. The vessels " Fesco Magadan, Fesco Moneron and the general cargo ship SV…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (171+ words) A Russian military transport plane crashed in the annexed Crimean peninsula on Tuesday night, killing 30 people on board, state media'reported, citing the Defense Ministry. The Antonov An-26 aircraft was carrying 23 passengers and seven crew members when it lost contact with…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (301+ words) Finnish authorities are investigating a crashed unmanned aircraft spotted on a frozen lake near Russia, the Border Guard told AFP on Tuesday, two days after stray drones crashed in southern Finland. An "unmanned fixed-wing aircraft" was detected on the ice…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (793+ words) The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has only cemented the'views'of Russian officials that the Northern Sea Route is the future of global trade " a faster, cheaper alternative to traditional shipping lanes that's now made viable by melting Arctic ice....

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (10+ words) In Photos: 250 Years of the Bolshoi Theatre'The Moscow Times...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (279+ words) The Russian government hopes to reopen beaches along the southern Black Sea coast this summer as cleanup efforts from the December 2024 oil spill near completion, officials said Friday. Swimming has been banned around the resort city of Anapa in the…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (205+ words) A seaborne drone attacked a Turkish-operated oil tanker in the Black Sea early Thursday, Turkey's Transportation Minister said. "I can say that a foreign-flagged ship operated by a Turkish company, which had loaded crude oil from Russia, reported an explosion…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (286+ words) An oil tanker previously reported to be carrying Russian crude arrived at a port in the Philippines on Monday, coming days after the government in Manila said it was considering purchasing oil from Russia amid the global energy crunch. Ship…...