Picture Credit: Newsflash/Mironova&Mironov This Russian couple have been cheering up their countrymen by creating images with silly masks in the belief that a laugh is the best way to tackle fear around the COVID-19 pandemic. Konstantin and Polina Mironovs, from the western Russian city of Ekaterinburg in the Sverdlovsk Oblast…
Two Russians who claim they were tricked into working on a boat smuggling immigrants into Europe have been jailed for 395 years and fined millions of euros. The two men, Alexander Ilarionov, 27, and Andrey Zhuravlev, 29, who were originally from the city of Kaliningrad were jailed by a court…
Chilly residents of a Moscow block of flats have blamed Salisbury-nerve-agent victim Yulia Skripal for causing the building’s heating to go off. According to local media, residents of the apartment block on Davydkovskaya Street in the western Russian capital Moscow called emergency plumbers after they found themselves without any heating.…
Story By: Gheorghi Caraseni, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News This LGBT activist has been accused by the authorities of promoting homosexuality among minors in Russia because of an image she posted online of two same sex couples with children. Yulia Tsvetkova, 26, is a Russian LGBT and feminist activist from the city of…
Story By: Gheorghi Caraseni, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/KrymskayaGazeta This is the moment three Russian strongmen pull a train weighing over 1,000 tonnes by crawling along the track - and they are working to have the feat recognised by Guinness World Records. Mikhail Paler, Mikhail Ivanov and Alexei Savchenko –…
