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The Eastern Herald’s Russia Desk covers Russia, the Russia-Ukraine war, Russian foreign policy, NATO-Russia relations, Eastern European security, the Baltic region and major geopolitical developments involving Moscow and its neighbors.

Lead photograph accompanying Al Jazeera's report on the Russian diesel agreement

Easing Diesel Export Ban Will Not Affect Russian Consumers, Novak Says

Russia's partial lifting of its diesel export ban will not affect domestic consumers, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said, as exports resume under the Putin-Trump deal.

October 10, 2026

by Russia Desk

German security forces at Leipzig Airport following the GRU drone incident in August 2026

Three European Spy Chiefs Warn Russia Could Test NATO Within Months, Citing Leipzig Airport Drone

Three European intelligence chiefs issued a rare joint warning Sunday that Russia could test NATO's collective defence in months, not years, citing the Leipzig Airport drone incident as a decisive shift in Moscow's hybrid warfare tactics. Their assessments diverged internally

September 21, 2026

by Russia Desk

Drone strike damage in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, September 2026

Russia Strikes Back at Ukraine’s Cities After Biggest Moscow Attack of the War

Russia launched 172 drones at Ukrainian cities overnight, killing two in Zaporizhzhia, where apartment blocks burned

Voters at a polling station in Russia during the 2026 State Duma election

United Russia Claims Duma Victory as Fraud Reports Mount

Russia's Duma election closed September 20 with United Russia leading exit polls at 53.5% as fraud

Moscow hosted the III exhibition-forum “Made in Russia Beauty” – the event brought together experts and representatives of the industry

From June 6 to 7, the 3rd exhibition of the beauty industry “Made in Russia Beauty” was held at the GOLDEN PALACE in Moscow. For two days, expo zones with the latest

June 14, 2023

Economy·News

RIA Novosti informed Russian tourists about the most common ways of cheating in Turkey

Reviewer RIA News Ekaterina Mironova spoke about how Russian tourists are most often deceived in Turkish resorts. After Tayyip Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the presidential election, Istanbul’s popularity has skyrocketed among tourists.

June 14, 2023

News

Former head of Navalny * headquarters in Ufa sentenced to 7.5 years in prison

The Kirovsky District Court in Ufa sentenced the former head of the Navalny * headquarters in Ufa, Lilia Chanysheva **, to 7.5 years in prison, reports the publication Aspects. She was found

June 14, 2023

News

the intelligence services of the Netherlands were aware of Ukraine’s plans to sabotage the Nord Stream

Three months before the September sabotage at Nord Stream, the Dutch military intelligence service (MIVD) received information about an “imminent attack” on gas pipelines from a source in Ukraine, informed Political edition.

June 14, 2023

Conflicts, Military and War·News

The tiger shark that killed a Russian in Hurghada will be embalmed for a museum

The tiger shark, in the attack of which 23-year-old Russian Vladimir Popov died in Hurghada, will become an exhibit of the Museum of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Red Sea Reserves,

June 14, 2023

News

Trump refuses to plead guilty to possession of classified material

Former US President Donald Trump, during a hearing in Miami, said he would not plead guilty in the case of improper handling of classified documents discovered during searches of his home in

June 14, 2023

News

the nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus are three times more powerful than those used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Minsk received “rockets and bombs” from Moscow, which are three times more powerful than those used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was stated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in an interview with

June 14, 2023

Conflicts, Military and War·News

“We would be Khan.” Apollo astronauts could infect Earth with lunar microbes

The isolation to which NASA subjected the lunar astronauts and the soil brought was done for show, and did not protect the Earth from possible infection if microbes were actually living on

June 13, 2023

News

The front could not be broken. The results of the week of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

For more than a week, the counter-offensive has continued. The main actions took place in the direction of Zaporizhzhia near the city of Orekhov and at the junction of the Zaporizhzhia region

June 13, 2023

Conflicts, Military and War·News

The Japanese intend to build an autonomous floating city for 40 thousand people, including a spaceport

Japanese company N-Ark has unveiled its ambitious floating city project, which will be a complex that includes tourism and medical facilities, as well as a launch pad for space rockets. The future

June 13, 2023

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Easing Diesel Export Ban Will Not Affect Russian Consumers, Novak Says

Three European Spy Chiefs Warn Russia Could Test NATO Within Months, Citing Leipzig Airport Drone

Russia Strikes Back at Ukraine’s Cities After Biggest Moscow Attack of the War

United Russia Claims Duma Victory as Fraud Reports Mount

Moscow hosted the III exhibition-forum “Made in Russia Beauty” – the event brought together experts and representatives of the industry

RIA Novosti informed Russian tourists about the most common ways of cheating in Turkey

Former head of Navalny * headquarters in Ufa sentenced to 7.5 years in prison

the intelligence services of the Netherlands were aware of Ukraine’s plans to sabotage the Nord Stream

The tiger shark that killed a Russian in Hurghada will be embalmed for a museum

Trump refuses to plead guilty to possession of classified material

the nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus are three times more powerful than those used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

“We would be Khan.” Apollo astronauts could infect Earth with lunar microbes

The front could not be broken. The results of the week of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Japanese intend to build an autonomous floating city for 40 thousand people, including a spaceport

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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