As Moscow sweltered in record-breaking summer heat, animals at the city’s zoo cooled off with icy treats and baths.

MOSCOW: Russia said on Saturday (Jul 12) that its agreement with the United Nations to facilitate exports of Russian food and fertilisers had collapsed due to Western sanctions over Moscow's offensive in Ukraine.

One of Russia’s most powerful men, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, is set to visit North Korea this weekend, in a sign of deepening relations between Moscow and Pyongyang as North Korea gets pulled deeper into Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Moscow sweltered on Friday in a heatwave with temperatures topping 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the Russian weather service, breaching a municipal record registered nearly 30 years ago.

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Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty joins Isa’s Book Club to discuss her memoir, ‘My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin.’

U.S. relations continues and has not faded, although the U.S. administration is acting in a zigzag manner, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the RIA news agency in remarks published on Friday.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz should remember that in Moscow there are exact coordinates of German military enterprises producing Taurus cruise missiles.