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Ewan McGregor's portrayal of a Russian count, banished to a hotel attic, comes alive in the trailer for the upcoming series 'A Gentleman in Moscow.' The eight-part adaptation of Amor Towles' novel promises a captivating narrative set against the backdrop of Russian history. Trailer, Plot

NDTV, the person speaking in the video is Gagandeep Singh. He says that they had left for Russia on December 27. They had a valid visa to stay in the country for 90 days.

Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon from 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday, something he said could one day allow lunar settlements to be built. Borisov, a former deputy defence minister, said that Russia and China had been jointly working on a lunar programme and that Moscow was able to contribute with its expertise on "nuclear space energy".

Kyiv, Mar 05, 2024 -Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces destroyed a Russian military patrol ship in the Black Sea near annexed Crimea, the latest naval attack on Moscow's fleet in the key waterway. Kyiv also said it was behind a drone hit on an oil depot in a Russian border region, as Ukraine flexes its ability to strike Russia from the air and at sea with its troops struggling on the front lines. The Black Sea has been a vital battleground in the two-year war.

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Decisions on 60% of corporate loans issued by Russia's top lender Sberbank will be made using artificial intelligence (AI) by the end of this year, CEO German Gref said on Tuesday.

Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina says the country will use “several stages” to roll out its digital ruble.

SINGAPORE—Two years after the invasion of Ukraine, drones and U.S.-made computer chips are increasingly flowing to Russia from China through Central Asian trade routes, showing the difficulty of strangling supplies to Moscow’s war effort. Trade routes snaking through former Soviet republics Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are among the many paths into Russia for so-called dual-use goods—singled out by the U.S. and its allies because they can be used on the battlefield.

Reuters. On being asked about the late Navalny's significance as a political figure, the Kremlin said it can't give any assessment. Meanwhile, the Kremlin on Friday warned against any unsanctioned gatherings during the funeral of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, AFP quoted Russian news agencies as saying. "Any unauthorised gatherings will be in violation of the law and those who participate in them will be held responsible," spokesman Dmitry Peskov said according to TASS.

Russian man pleaded guilty on Thursday to illegally exporting electronics to Russia for possible military use, in violation of sanctions imposed after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the US Department of Justice said. Maxim Marchenko, who lived in Hong Kong, operated a network with two other unidentified Russians that fraudulently bought large quantities of military-grade microelectronics from American distributors on behalf of Russia-based end users, according to the DOJ.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has downgraded Russia’s compliance rating due to its “insufficient regulation of virtual assets and cryptocurrencies.”

Former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov has died at age 94

Officials in Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria have appealed to Moscow for protection as tensions escalate with the pro-Western government

Moscow has long established itself not only as a business hub, but also as a leisure destination and the city offers a high-tech, accessible, and comfortable environment for every tourist, according to Bulat Nurmukhanov, Head of the International Cooperation Division of the Moscow City Tourism Committee. The increasing interest in Moscow as a tourist destination has lent additional impetus to developing more attractive infrastructure offerings for tourists. As of today, Moscow offers a wide range of services and various events that may be of interest to visitors from India – from purely business activities to cultural events. “Before the pandemic, tourist traffic from India was growing at 12-15 percent annually. Now we are on the way to recovery — all the necessary conditions have been created for this. Thus, Moscow was visited by 24.5 million tourists in 2023, of which 2.3 million were international tourists. In comparison, in 2019 the figure was 25.1 million tourists, with over 600,000 in the summer alone,” Nurmukhanov told ET.

Vladimir Putin warned Western countries on Thursday that there was a genuine risk of nuclear war if they sent their own troops to fight in Ukraine, and he said Moscow had the weapons to strike targets in the West. Addressing parliament and other members of the country's elite, Putin, 71, repeated his accusation that the West is bent on weakening Russia, and he suggested Western leaders did not understand how dangerous their meddling could be in what he cast as Russia's own internal affairs. He prefaced his warning with a specific reference to an idea, floated by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, of European NATO members sending ground troops to Ukraine — a suggestion that was quickly rejected by the United States, Germany, Britain and others.

State Duma lawmakers have signed off on a bill that will let Russian firms and their partners use the digital ruble and “digital assets” in international settlements.

Alexei Navalny's funeral will be held in Moscow on Friday, his wife Yulia announced, but she said she was unsure if it would pass off peacefully and that plans for a civil memorial service had been blocked. Kira Yarmysh, Navalny's spokesperson, posted on X that a service for Navalny would be held on Friday afternoon in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God in the Moscow district of Maryino where Navalny used to live. Navalny would then be buried at the Borisovskoye cemetery, around 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away on the other side of the Moskva River.

CHISINAU (Reuters) — Officials of the Russian-backed Moldovan breakaway region of Transdniestria asked Russia on Wednesday to help protect it from what it what described as concerted economic pressure by the Moldovan government.

Russian allies are “interested” in using CBDCs like the digital ruble for cross-border settlements, a lawmaker said on February 26.

Germany and Poland affirmed Tuesday that they would not be sending troops to Ukraine, after reports that some Western countries may be considering doing so as the war with Russia enters its third year. The head of NATO also said the U.S.-led military alliance has no plans to send troops to Ukraine, after other central European leaders confirmed that they too would not be providing soldiers. The Kremlin, meanwhile, warned that a direct conflict between NATO and Russia would be inevitable if the alliance sends combat troops. «In this case, we need to talk not about probability, but about the inevitability (of conflict),» Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Latvia’s government has extended restrictions on the entry of Russian citizens into the Baltic country until next year

froze hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian foreign holdings in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Those billions have been sitting untapped as the war grinds on, now in its third year, while officials from multiple countries have debated the legality of sending the money to Ukraine. More than two-thirds of Russia’s immobilized central bank funds are located in the EU.