Stanislav Bogdanovich, 26, a grandmaster, was his country's former quick chess champion and his death came soon after he had controversially played online for Russia against Ukraine.

Dr Alexey Pavlovsky believes integral evidence from the Malaysian Airlines flight that was shot down over the Ukraine was falsified by Australian investigators.

Creating fears about shortages of products in shops to 'spread uncertainty' and undermine the West would be straight out of the 'Russian toolbox', one British official said.

Saudi Arabia slashed its oil export prices over the weekend and declared a price war with Russia that sent global markets reeling and marked the sharpest decline in oil futures since 1991.

Petrol could plummet to $1 per litre after a price war erupted between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

At the closing bell, the Dow was down by 2,025.32, 7.83 percent, which was worse than the figure that had forced trading to a halt earlier in the day.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. amid the steep drop in financial markets Monday.

An increase in wooded plants in both savanna and tundra regions is caused by increased rainfall and temperatures that can be attributed to climate change, UK ecologists have concluded.

Sentiment was bolstered overnight after President Donald Trump promised 'major' steps to combat the virus outbreak and said he would discuss a payroll tax cut with congressional Republicans.

City mayor Sergey Sobyanin has ordered a £92million hospital to be built 40 miles from Moscow's city centre even though Russia currently has only 34 cases.

Moscow officials have banned gatherings of more than 50 people in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus. It comes as plans to speed-build a 500-bed hospital to treat victims were revealed.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has seen his net worth fall by a staggering £2.4billion already this year.

The Berlin city government has agreed to build a new hospital for up to 1,000 coronavirus patients with the help of the military and other partners.

Natalia Korotova, 33, from Perm Krai in Russia, is the proud owner of London, a nine-month-old puma, who is already incredibly large and a big presence in her home.

Viktoria Aimetdinova, 23, strangled, stabbed and burned baby Bogdan Gafner in a forest 'to save world from apocalypses'. She has been sentenced to forced psychiatric treatment in Russia.

Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia's third president 20 years ago.

Dillian Whyte has undertaken a 40-hour drive to Portugal for a training camp ahead of his heavyweight clash with Alexander Povetkin - a bout which could be postponed this week.

Hilarious video footage shows a man trying to taunt a beaver somewhere near Moscow - but the animal is in no mood to be played with. It leaps at the man who runs off and is laughed at by his friends.

RT has lost a London High Court challenge over a £200,000 fine for repeated breaches of impartiality rules over broadcasts on the Salisbury poisoning (pictured, George Galloway).

A major scare over Vladimir Putin's health emerged today as Russia's top coronavirus doctor was stuck down with Covid-19 - one week after meeting and shaking hands with the president.

Khabib Nurmagomedov's fight with Tony Ferguson at UFC 249 has been called off with the lightweight champion unable to leave Russia due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Trenton Thurber had been trying to make it home to Tucson via JFK from Sheremetyevo International Airport on March 30 when his flight was canceled. 'There's no way to get out', he said.

Wildlife photographer Petr Simon, 46, snapped the images at Kurile Lake, a volcanic crater lake in Kamchatka, Russia. He said that the mother bear caught 10 fish for her cubs.

Stock indexes gained about 2 percent on Thursday as oil prices soared on hints of a Saudi-Russia deal, but doubts returned Friday on whether the rebound would last as demand tapers off.

The career spy, who has worked for MI5 for 25 years and oversaw its investigation into Russia's attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in 2018, will take up his new post later this month.

Khabib Nurmagomedov suggested last week that he would not be breaking Russia's national lockdown to fight Tony Ferguson - a bout that has been mooted five times but has never taken place.

Khabib Nurmagomedov's total net worth has been revealed as £80million by the Russian fighter's father.  The reigning UFC lightweight champion is undefeated in his career which began in 2008.

These first pictures show the wards at the new £92million clinic in Moscow which in recent days has seen 10,000-plus construction workers deployed round the clock.

Chinese city Suifenhe on the border with Russia has gone into full lockdown after detecting a total of 127 imported coronavirus cases. A makeshift hospital is being built and will be ready on Saturday.

The country reported a record one-day rise of 1,459 new cases on Thursday as well as an increase in the national death toll from 13 to 76.

It follows from what had been an arduous task for the UFC chief in finding a new location to host the highly-anticipated fight, with a host of venues across the United States refusing to host the event.

Orthodox elder Iliy Nozdrin was seen alongside another prominent priest with icons and a cross blessing residents of Moscow and St Petersburg. He flew in a jet above the two cities.

Brazilian Malcom had been in good form before the shutdown, putting in two impressive displays - scoring a goal and providing one assist and being crowned as the best player in March.

According to declassified footnotes from the Steele dossier, the FBI found reported falsehoods among the allegations against Trump's election campaign

Compared to the previous three months, China's economy is forecast to be almost 10 per cent down and with a 6 per cent drop on last year. The UK economy could shrink by up to 15 to 25 per cent.

Shocking footage captured two women as they held on to Anton Kozlov, 36, for 15 minutes after he fell through a window in Moscow, Russia.

President Trump told reporters Monday that he discussed nuclear arms control during his latest conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend.

Professor Sergei Netesov says Moscow is facing a major crisis with hospitals already in emergency mode and the health service stretched to the limit.

Ian Wright has revealed how Roy Keane taught him a lesson on timekeeping after he arrived just two minutes late for lunch during the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Russian animal rescuers were given special permission to break lockdown and drive 1,600 miles from Tver to save three bear cubs in Kirov, Russia. The cubs were abandoned for two days.

On Friday, officials reported a record rise of 4,069 new COVID-19 cases in Russia, bringing its nationwide tally to 32,007, with 273 deaths. A new £92m hospital has been made in just 36 days.

Twenty of the new cases were in Heilongjiang province (pictured, a makeshift hospital there), including 13 Chinese nationals who had returned recently from Russia.

Since March 30, President Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke four times over the phone as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.

An owner's amusement at her cat's curiosity turned to panic when the cat managed to get its whole body stuck headfirst in a glass vase in Saransk, Mordovia Republic in Russia.

A clever raven was spotted in Ufa, Russia, lifting a plastic lid in its beak, flying it up a hill and then snowboarding back down. A passerby stopped to take a video of the bizarre moment.

Sergei Sobyanin said Russia's 0.9 per cent mortality rate was so low because of mass testing which leads to a high number of confirmed infections.

Mother-of-two Dr Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47, plunged 50ft from an office window in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, after being told her hospital would treat coronavirus patients, despite lack of PPE.

Etchings of woolly mammoths and rhinoceros in Mongolia and Russia were made some 7,000 years older than previously thought, researchers say.

Natalya Lebedeva had been accused of failing to stop an outbreak of Covid-19 inside the restricted Star City (file phot) where cosmonauts are trained, colleagues claimed.

The victim Maria from Russia sought help from her hospital and an online forum but was refused an appointment due to the lockdown and a ban on nonessential consultations.