Russia’s prison population has fallen to 282,000 over the past four and a half years, the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Arkady Gostev, said. The state-run Russian news agency TASS cited his remarks.

In an interview with national news agency TASS on Tuesday Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev said Moscow was maintaining contacts to restore its international presence and was already looking to prepare for Dakar 2026 and the Olympic pathway to 2028.

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Denis Butsaev, Russia’s former deputy natural resources minister, faces charges of large-scale fraud, the Russian state news agency TASS reported on May 13, citing law enforcement.

SEOUL: North Korea's state news agency and Russian counterpart TASS have agreed to counter jointly what they call "disinformation" delivered by their "many enemies", the outlets reported Tuesday, in a further deepening of ties. Western governments have ...

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Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh warnings about the risks posed by attacks near the plant during Russia's ...

Four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing a spring of discontent.