VYACHESLAV VOLODIN

A lawmaker and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing for harsher penalties of citizens who take issue with the country’s military.

Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the Russian Federation's State Duma [the lower chamber of the Russian parliament], has taken offence at Ukraine's plans to cancel the celebration of Victory Day on 9 May.

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., again called on the Biden administration to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine on Sunday, saying that "tanks are outcome determinative in expelling Russia."

The Russian parliament speaker has warned that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction

Germany’s top diplomat says her country won't object if Poland decides to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.

The speaker of Russia's parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction, a message that followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested. “Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said. “If Washington and NATO supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”

Vyacheslav Volodin, the Head of the State Duma of Russia [the lower house of Russian Parliament - ed.] suggests cancelling preferences for people who left the Russian Federation and introducing higher taxes for such persons.

The lower house of the Russian parliament has passed a bill banning foreigners from using Russian surrogate mothers

"The passing of this new law will be yet another disaster for human rights," said Amnesty International's director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Former County Executive Joel Giambra says he's suspending his campaign for the 61st State Senate District, and is leaving the Republican Party altogether.

Tomorrow is the date the House committee investigating January 6 has asked former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone to sit for an interview. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa joins "Red and Blue" to discuss the latest on the committee's probe.

Ukrainians troops captured by Russian forces at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol face interrogation as the war enters a 'protracted phase.'

Russia says that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian troops who doggedly defended a giant steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered.

A senior Russian lawmaker whose sulphurous rhetoric and antics alarmed the West but appealed to citizens' aggrievement and wounded pride has died at age 75.

If NASA's "uncrewed" lunar mission is successful, future Artemis missions plan to land the first woman and first person of color on the moon.

Germany takes the first step towards gas rationing as a payments row with Russia escalates.

Trademarks for Uncle Vanya, McDuck and more brands using logos similar to McDonald's have been filed in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has intensified a crackdown on media outlets and individuals who fail to hew to the Kremlin line on the war in Ukraine.

Since 2019, some 720,000 residents of areas in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russia-backed rebels have received Russian passports in a fast-track procedure widely seen as an attempt to underscore Russia’s influence in the region.

The Russian government has decided to delay a controversial bill requiring QR codes confirming vaccination or recovery from COVID-19 to access public places, despite surging cases and warnings from top officials about the highly infectious omicron variant.

Navalny's colleagues revealed Thursday that they removed the bottle and other items from the hotel room in Siberia and brought them to Germany as potential evidence. “Regrettably, what could have been evidence of poisoning was taken away,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Members of the Navalny team said they searched his hotel room in the city of Tomsk upon learning that he collapsed on the flight home. The German government had no comment Friday on the Navalny team’s statement that Novichok was found on the water bottle taken from Russia. The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons also is having samples from Navalny tested.

In this image distributed by Russian Investigative Committee, Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region is escorted by Russian Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) and Russian Investigative Committee agents in Khabarovsk, Russia, Thursday, July 9, 2020. Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region along the border with China, was arrested in Khabarovsk and was flown to Moscow and has been arrested on charges of involvement in multiple murders. (The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation via AP)MOSCOW A provincial governor in Russia's far east has been arrested on charges of involvement in multiple murders, officials said Thursday. Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region along the border with China, was arrested in Khabarovsk and was flown to Moscow. The Investigative Committee said that four of Furgal's suspected accomplices were also arrested.

MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered amendments that would allow him to remain in power until 2036 to be put into the Russian Constitution after voters approved the changes during a week-long plebiscite. The amendments come into force. They come into force, without overstating it, at the people's will, Putin said after he signed a decree to have the constitution revised. the Russian president said during a video-conference with lawmakers who worked on drafting the amendments. According to a copy of the decree released by the Russian government on Friday, the amendments will come into force on Saturday.