Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared anti-corruption protests that erupted throughout Russia over the weekend to Tunisia's 2011 Arab Spring and Ukraine’s 2014 Euromaidan revolution. “I personally support the anti-corruption issue being at the center of public attention,” Putin said, before going on to criticize “political forces” which use the issue to promote themselves in the run up to elections, the Republic news site reported . “This is a tool of the Arab Spring,” he added.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti An investigation into quality control issues in the Russian space industry has discovered that nearly every engine currently stockpiled for use in Proton rockets is defective, the RIA Novosti news agency reported March 30, citing Igor Arbuzov, head of state rocket engine manufacturer Energomash. 71 engines, mostly used to power the second and third stages of the Proton rocket, require complete overhauls to remove defects.

Russia's Education Ministry has said it will use social media to create a new generation of patriotic Russian schoolchildren.

A bald eagle looks up from eating on the ground on March 14, 2015, in Anchorage, Alaska. AP Photo / Dan Joling It’s nearly April, but it might as well be Christmas morning in Moscow. Yes, on the 150th anniversary of “Seward’s Folly,” a U.S. official today endorsed Alaska’s return to Russia. That, anyway, is how the Russian state media reported it.

Pixabay, edited by The Moscow Times It’s a trend in Russian schools that keeps growing. Teachers and lecturers take a break from the class curriculum to berate their students for supporting anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny. Standing before a classroom, the room’s only adult tells a dozen or so teenagers that they’re ignorant, unpatriotic fools who don’t realize what horrors their civic activism will unleash upon the Russian Federation.

A woman has died after being hit by a fire truck at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. The vehicle reversed into a group of pedestrians waiting at a bus stop, unnamed police sources told the TASS news agency. The airport-owned fire truck had been traveling along a road connecting the airport to a nearby hotel. Four people have been hospitalized as a result of the incident, the Moscow Region Investigative Committee confirmed in a statement.

A woman from Russia's southern Chechen Republic has appeared on live television to publicly apologize after insulting the region's security forces, the Caucasian Knot news agency reported Thursday. Maret Zanzulaeva was filmed in the Chechen village of Davydenko calling police employees “bull headed.” She was brought before Chechen Parliamentary speaker Magomed Daudov on the Grozny television channel on March 29 to formally repent. "Maret, what you said is unworthy of a Chechen woman.

Marine Le Pen visiting the Kremlin on the invitation of Russian parliamentarians. Kremlin Press Service There is afashionable line of thought that has Russia pulling the strings in majordemocracies on both sides of the Atlantic. FBI director James Comey recentlyconfirmed an ongoing investigation into Russian alleged interference in the2016 U.S. presidential election. Rarely does an election happen in Europewithout journalists and politicians sounding the alarm on fears of Moscow’smeddling .

Denis Nikolin (left) uses the ‘awkward and weird situations’ he encounters every day as material for his jokes. VLADIMIR RUBANOV Ever hear the one about the Russian and the Croat who set up an English stand-up comedy group in Moscow? For Denis Nikolin and Igor Mondae this is no joke.

AP Photo / Alexander Zemlianichenko From Syria to Ukraine to a hotly contested intrusion in America, 2016 saw Russia's foreign policy dominate world news headlines. With Donald Trump now firmly in place at the Oval Office, experts and politicians across the globe are speculating about what the White House can expect over the next year from the Kremlin's ever assertive world view. One man with answers is Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Vlad Dokshin / Novaya Gazeta When 12-year-old Gleb took to the stage at an anti-corruption protest in the Siberian city of Tomsk last week, few in the audience would have expected the moment to go viral. “It doesn’t matter who’s in power — Putin or Navalny,” Gleb said to rounds of applause.

Jennifer Eremeeva has been inspired by Russians’ reaction to the embargo on Western food imports. PERSONAL ARCHIVE Author and journalist Jennifer Eremeeva first came to Russia from the U.S. in 1988. Since then she has worked as a tour guide, in banking and more recently as a cookery and travel writer. She published her memoir “Lenin Lives next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow” in 2014 and is currently working on a historical novel.