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A critic of President Vladimir Putin who fell into a coma in Russia and is being treated in Berlin was attacked with a Novichok nerve agent, a German government spokesman says.
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Russia has become the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, a move that has been met with international scepticism and unease because the shots have only been studied in dozens of people.
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Russians have opened the door to Vladimir Putin staying in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for constitutional changes that will allow him to run again for president twice, but critics said the outcome was falsified on an industrial scale.
China and Russia are using the heightened anxiety around the coronavirus crisis to undermine western democracies’ governments by spreading disinformation online, the Australian government has warned.
Russia’s state communications watchdog has asked Google to stop advertising “illegal mass events” on its YouTube video platform, it says.
Russia is determined to interfere in US elections despite sanctions and other efforts to deter such actions before the next presidential election in 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray says.
Turkey has already purchased S-400 defence systems from Russia and hopes they will be delivered in July, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says, an announcement likely to ratchet up tensions with NATO ally Washington.
