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| Twitter currently labels some Russian media stateaffiliated a move decried by Moscow | Neutral | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin signed an array of laws on Wednesday handing Russia new powers to restrict U.S. social media giants label individuals foreign and to crack down on the disclosure of its security officers personal data | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-putin/putin-targets-u-s-social-media-secret-agent-leaks-and-protests-with-new-laws-idUSKBN2941AE | 2020-12-31 |
| Blake was buried at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in western Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Russia buried former British spy and Soviet double agent George Blake with military honours on Wednesday the RIA news agency reported four days after he died at the age of 98 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-people-george-blake-russia/russia-buries-soviet-double-agent-george-blake-with-honours-idUSKBN2941FB | 2020-12-31 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Thursday that new U.S. sanctions targeting Nord Stream 2 could complicate the completion of the stalled Russian gas pipeline to Germany but that Moscow and European nations had an interest in it being built | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Thursday that new U.S. sanctions targeting Nord Stream 2 could complicate the completion of the stalled Russian gas pipeline to Germany but that Moscow and European nations had an interest in it being built | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-nord-stream-kremlin/kremlin-says-new-u-s-sanctions-could-complicate-nord-stream-2s-completion-idUSKBN28Y0X9 | 2020-12-25 |
| Galyamina 47 was involved in a campaign that planned a protest against constitutional reforms on July 15 in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Yulia Galyamina a Moscow city councillor and critic of the Kremlin was given a a twoyear suspended jail term on Wednesday after being found guilty of repeatedly violating rules for organising opposition protests | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-opposition/moscow-city-councillor-given-suspended-2-year-sentence-over-protests-idUSKBN28X1X4 | 2020-12-24 |
| The ministry said it had already vaccinated more than 31000 volunteers as part of the Moscowbased trial a quarter of whom received placebos | Positive | MOSCOW Russias Health Ministry said on Wednesday it was halting the uptake of new volunteers in its main trial of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID19 the TASS news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-volunteers/russia-halts-uptake-of-new-volunteers-in-sputnik-v-vaccine-trial-tass-idUSKBN28X1KE | 2020-12-24 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the new round of U.S. sanctions against Russia marked another hostile act by the outgoing administration of President Donald Trump and would further harm already poor ties between Moscow and Washington | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the new round of U.S. sanctions against Russia marked another hostile act by the outgoing administration of President Donald Trump and would further harm already poor ties between Moscow and Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-sanctions-kremlin/kremlin-says-new-u-s-sanctions-are-hostile-act-by-outgoing-trump-administration-idUSKBN28W11Q | 2020-12-23 |
| MOSCOW Russia said on Tuesday it had expanded its list of European Union officials barred from the country in response to what it described as sanctions against Moscow over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Tuesday it had expanded its list of European Union officials barred from the country in response to what it described as sanctions against Moscow over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-ambassadors/russia-bars-more-eu-officials-over-unacceptable-navalny-sanctions-idUSKBN28W0S0 | 2020-12-23 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hailed British drugmaker AstraZenecas decision to test combining its own experimental COVID19 vaccine with Russias Sputnik V shot as Moscow said the start of clinical trials was imminent | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hailed British drugmaker AstraZenecas decision to test combining its own experimental COVID19 vaccine with Russias Sputnik V shot as Moscow said the start of clinical trials was imminent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-russia/putin-lauds-astrazeneca-as-it-signs-vaccine-tie-up-deal-with-russia-idUSKBN28V1M2 | 2020-12-22 |
| The Kremlin has always denied Moscows involvement in cyber attacks against the West | Negative | MOSCOW U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that Russia was responsible for a cyber attack that embedded malicious code inside U.S. government software systems and those of other governments and companies across the world | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/global-cyber-russia/explainer-russias-potent-cyber-and-information-warfare-capabilities-idUSKBN28T0ML | 2020-12-20 |
| MOSCOW Russias Embassy to Sofia said on Friday that Bulgarias expulsion of a Russian diplomat was groundless and that Moscow reserved the right to respond | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Embassy to Sofia said on Friday that Bulgarias expulsion of a Russian diplomat was groundless and that Moscow reserved the right to respond | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-bulgaria-russia-espionage-response/russia-says-bulgarias-expulsion-of-its-diplomat-groundless-idUSKBN28S1XN | 2020-12-19 |
| Ankaras Western allies widely condemned that incursion which was halted when Turkey reached separate deals with Washington and Moscow the second of which agreed to establish the joint RussianTurkish patrols | Negative | BEIRUT Syrian fighters backed by Turkey waged battles on Friday against Kurdish forces near the town of Ain Issa in northern Syria where Russian and Turkish troops jointly patrol a key highway | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-ainissa/turkey-backed-fighters-clash-with-kurdish-forces-in-north-syria-town-idUSKBN28S298 | 2020-12-19 |
| Russias embassy in Sofia said in a statement that the expulsion of its military attache was groundless and that Moscow reserved the right to respond | Negative | SOFIA Bulgaria has given a Russian diplomat 72 hours to leave the country after prosecutors alleged he had been involved in espionage since 2017 the foreign ministry said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-bulgaria-russia-espionage/bulgaria-expels-russian-diplomat-over-espionage-idUSKBN28S1X8 | 2020-12-19 |
| Yuriy Savelyev 66 was sentenced by a court in Novosibirsk around 1740 miles east of Moscow his lawyer Vitaliy Svintsov told Reuters | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian court in Siberia jailed a Jehovahs Witness adherent for six years on Wednesday after finding him guilty of extremist activity his lawyer said part of a crackdown on the religious group | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-religion/russia-jails-jehovahs-witness-for-six-years-lawyer-idUSKBN28Q1U3 | 2020-12-17 |
| The U.S.brokered deal the fourth such announcement involving an Arab country and Israel in as many months also drew criticism from Moscow | Negative | Israel and Moroccan Jews on Friday celebrated an agreement to normalise relations between the two countries but the largest party in Moroccos government faced internal wrangling over a move that some Moroccans regard as a betrayal of Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-usa-morocco/as-israel-and-moroccan-jews-celebrate-new-ties-others-are-critical-idUSKBN28L2HG | 2020-12-12 |
| Other tracks include Somewhere Over the Moscow Waltzing and the South African lullaby Thula Baba | Neutral | NEW YORK Cellist YoYo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott have teamed up for the third time in Songs of Comfort and dedicated to all the people who are going through tough times around the world | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-music-yo-yo-ma/cellist-yo-yo-ma-offers-songs-of-comfort-and-hope-in-duo-album-idUSKBN28J2OJ | 2020-12-10 |
| Russia which has resisted imposing stringent lockdown measures reported a record 28145 new infections earlier on Thursday including 7750 in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Moscow will open its new COVID19 vaccination centres on Saturday and the first people to receive the shot will be teachers doctors and social workers Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/moscow-to-open-covid-19-vaccination-centres-on-saturday-mayor-idUSKBN28D1BL | 2020-12-04 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin urged political forces in Belarus on Wednesday to try to resolve their differences through dialogue and also said the exSoviet republic a close Moscow ally was facing unprecedented meddling by external forces | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin urged political forces in Belarus on Wednesday to try to resolve their differences through dialogue and also said the exSoviet republic a close Moscow ally was facing unprecedented meddling by external forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-belarus-putin/putin-says-opposing-forces-in-belarus-need-to-resolve-crisis-via-talks-idUSKBN28C1PG | 2020-12-03 |
| The Kremlin earlier gave assurances that Russians were first in line to be vaccinated with Moscow also discussing supply deals with other countries | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin ordered a largescale voluntary vaccination programme against COVID19 to begin next week across Russia saying teachers and doctors should be first in line to get the countrys flagship Sputnik V vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/putin-orders-russia-to-begin-large-scale-covid-19-vaccinations-next-week-idUSKBN28C21E | 2020-12-03 |
| In October Aeroflot announced plans to raise at least 80 billion roubles in a secondary public offering in Moscow for general corporate purposes and deleveraging | Positive | Russias Aeroflot said on Tuesday its total debt rose by more than a third during the first nine months of 2020 as a weaker rouble raised its leasing costs and revenue fell | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-aeroflot-results/aeroflot-debts-deepen-as-rouble-raises-leasing-costs-and-sales-slide-idUSKBN28B5DF | 2020-12-02 |
| MOSCOW Russia has delivered the first known batch of Sputnik V vaccines for civilian use to a hospital just south of Moscow which said on Monday it began vaccinating the local population last week | Positive | MOSCOW Russia has delivered the first known batch of Sputnik V vaccines for civilian use to a hospital just south of Moscow which said on Monday it began vaccinating the local population last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-sputnik/russian-hospital-says-it-began-civilian-coronavirus-vaccinations-last-week-idUSKBN28A1TW | 2020-12-01 |
| The trials will be conducted in Moscow and several other cities including Kazan and Kaliningrad the TASS news agency cited it as saying | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia plans to begin mass trials of its second coronavirus vaccine EpiVacCorona on people aged over 18 on Monday the RIA news agency cited the consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russia-begins-mass-trials-of-second-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN28A0P0 | 2020-12-01 |
| MOSCOW Pipelaying vessel Akademik Cherskiy expected to be used to finish the Moscowled Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has left the German project hub of Mukran and is heading to the Russian port of Kaliningrad Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW Pipelaying vessel Akademik Cherskiy expected to be used to finish the Moscowled Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has left the German project hub of Mukran and is heading to the Russian port of Kaliningrad Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-nordstream-vessel/nord-stream-2-pipe-laying-vessel-departs-project-hub-for-kaliningrad-idUSKBN2870NG | 2020-11-28 |
| MOSCOW Russias Federal Security Service said on Wednesday it had thwarted attacks planned by Islamic State in the Moscow region uncovering and breaking up a militant cell the RIA news agency said | Positive | MOSCOW Russias Federal Security Service said on Wednesday it had thwarted attacks planned by Islamic State in the Moscow region uncovering and breaking up a militant cell the RIA news agency said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-attacks/russia-says-it-thwarted-islamic-state-attacks-in-moscow-region-detains-one-ria-idUSKBN2850PF | 2020-11-26 |
| In particular some Western scientists have criticised Moscow for giving the regulatory goahead for the shot and launching mass vaccinations before full trials had been completed | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine will cost under per person on international markets and Moscow aims to produce more than a billion doses at home and abroad next year its financial backers and developers said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-eyeing-foreign-markets-says-sputnik-covid-19-vaccine-to-cost-under-20-idUSKBN28415J | 2020-11-25 |
| The law enforcement agency said it had opened an investigation as it suspected the Christian denomination was organising the activity in Moscow of its national centre and affiliates | Negative | MOSCOW Masked law enforcement officers carried out mass raids on the Jehovahs Witnesses across Russia on Tuesday and made a number of arrests as part of a new criminal case against the group the Investigative Committee said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-religion/russia-carries-out-mass-raids-on-jehovahs-witnesses-makes-arrests-idUSKBN2840RY | 2020-11-25 |
| The shares are due to start trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and in Moscow later on Tuesday | Neutral | MOSCOW Russian online retailer Ozon raised nearly billion from its New York share listing on Tuesday pricing the deal above initial guidance as investors scrambled to capitalise on Russias ecommerce boom | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-ozon-ipo/russian-online-retailer-ozon-raises-1-billion-in-u-s-listing-idUSKBN2840OE | 2020-11-25 |
| MOSCOW Russias Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine will cost under per person on international markets and Moscow aims to produce more than a billion doses at home and abroad next year its financial backers and developers said on Tuesday | Positive | MOSCOW Russias Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine will cost under per person on international markets and Moscow aims to produce more than a billion doses at home and abroad next year its financial backers and developers said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-eyeing-foreign-markets-says-sputnik-covid-19-vaccine-to-cost-under-20-idUSKBN28415J | 2020-11-25 |
| The Phase III trial of the shot is taking place in 29 clinics across Moscow and will involve 40000 volunteers in total with a quarter receiving a placebo shot | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine will cost under per person on international markets and Moscow aims to produce more than a billion doses at home and abroad next year its financial backers and developers said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-eyeing-foreign-markets-says-sputnik-covid-19-vaccine-to-cost-under-20-idUSKBN28415J | 2020-11-25 |
| MOSCOW A Russian regional governors decision to be treated for COVID19 in a private Moscow clinic rather than in his own region drew public criticism on Wednesday as Russia reported a new record daily high of 456 coronavirusrelated deaths | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian regional governors decision to be treated for COVID19 in a private Moscow clinic rather than in his own region drew public criticism on Wednesday as Russia reported a new record daily high of 456 coronavirusrelated deaths | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/covid-deaths-spike-in-russia-as-infected-governor-sparks-anger-idUSKBN27Y0V9 | 2020-11-19 |
| He portrayed his decision as an altruistic one saying he did not want to deprive someone of a hospital bed in his own region about 180 kilometres east of Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW A Russian regional governors decision to be treated for COVID19 in a private Moscow clinic rather than in his own region drew public criticism on Wednesday as Russia reported a new record daily high of 456 coronavirusrelated deaths | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/covid-deaths-spike-in-russia-as-infected-governor-sparks-anger-idUSKBN27Y0V9 | 2020-11-19 |
| Siberias Sheregesh will compete with other domestic ski resorts like Sochi which is easier to access for visitors from Moscow and St | Positive | SHEREGESH Russia A Siberian ski resort is aiming to replace the Alps as Russians preferred winter holiday destination this season as travel to many countries remains forbidden because of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-skiing/siberian-ski-resort-hopes-to-attract-locals-cut-off-from-the-alps-by-travel-restrictions-idUSKBN27X22D | 2020-11-19 |
| The company is considering listing its ADS in Moscow along with or shortly after its U.S. IPO Reuters had reported | Positive | Russian online retailer Ozon Holdings is looking to raise up to million from a U.S. initial public offering it said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-ozon-ipo/russian-online-retailer-ozon-expects-to-raise-up-to-825-mln-in-u-s-ipo-idUSKBN27X2YI | 2020-11-18 |
| She had fallen from the window of the Moscow hospitals coronavirus ward and died from her injuries a television channel reported | Negative | STAR CITY Russia The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hours drive northeast of the Kremlin but for decades the town never appeared on any maps | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-starcity-sp/special-report-the-woman-who-fell-from-the-sky-the-pandemic-crashes-into-russias-space-city-idUSKBN27T1E1 | 2020-11-14 |
| Aeroflot said it did not have any information about the case while the British embassy in Moscow referred questions to Russian authorities | Negative | MOSCOW Russian security services have detained a Londonbased executive of flagship airline Aeroflot on suspicion of passing state secrets to Britain Russian news agencies reported citing sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-britain-espionage/russia-detains-aeroflot-executive-on-suspicion-of-passing-secrets-to-britain-russian-news-agencies-idUSKBN27T1A5 | 2020-11-14 |
| Lebedeva had moved to the Moscow region from her hometown in southern Russia after her mother died and she began working as a Star City doctor in the 2000s | Negative | STAR CITY Russia The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hours drive northeast of the Kremlin but for decades the town never appeared on any maps | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-starcity-sp/special-report-the-woman-who-fell-from-the-sky-the-pandemic-crashes-into-russias-space-city-idUSKBN27T1E1 | 2020-11-14 |
| Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had said on Thursday that Moscow would soon announce retaliatory measures it has taken against senior French and German officials | Negative | BERLIN Russian sanctions against Germany in the case of the poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny are not justified a German government spokesman said in Berlin on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-germany-russia-navalny-sanctions/germany-says-russian-sanctions-related-to-navalny-unjustified-idUSKBN27T1JV | 2020-11-14 |
| On April 20 Lebedeva was hospitalized in Moscow after testing positive | Positive | STAR CITY Russia The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hours drive northeast of the Kremlin but for decades the town never appeared on any maps | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-starcity-sp/special-report-the-woman-who-fell-from-the-sky-the-pandemic-crashes-into-russias-space-city-idUSKBN27T1E1 | 2020-11-14 |
| South Koreas GL Rapha will make more than 150 million doses of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine per year Russias sovereign wealth fund said on Friday one of its biggest production deals announced so far as Moscow aims to boost output abroad | Positive | South Koreas GL Rapha will make more than 150 million doses of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine per year Russias sovereign wealth fund said on Friday one of its biggest production deals announced so far as Moscow aims to boost output abroad | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/south-korean-firm-to-produce-150-mln-doses-a-year-of-russian-covid-19-vaccine-rdif-idUSKBN27T0HF | 2020-11-14 |
| She had been admitted to the central FMBA hospital in Moscow | Neutral | STAR CITY Russia The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hours drive northeast of the Kremlin but for decades the town never appeared on any maps | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-starcity-sp/special-report-the-woman-who-fell-from-the-sky-the-pandemic-crashes-into-russias-space-city-idUSKBN27T1E1 | 2020-11-14 |
| Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said he hoped Moscow would not have to impose any additional restrictions but that it could do so if the situation worsened | Positive | MOSCOW Russia reported a record 21983 new coronavirus infections on Friday as Moscow prepared to close restaurants and bars overnight in an effort to contain the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russian-covid-cases-hit-record-as-moscow-overnight-closures-begin-idUSKBN27T0RM | 2020-11-14 |
| MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday diplomats from France and the United States were expected in Moscow soon to discuss the NagornoKarabakh conflict | Positive | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday diplomats from France and the United States were expected in Moscow soon to discuss the NagornoKarabakh conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-russia-lavrov/u-s-french-diplomats-expected-in-moscow-for-karabakh-talks-russia-idUSKBN27S1CJ | 2020-11-13 |
| Russias Sputnik V vaccine is effective at protecting people from COVID19 according to interim trial results the countrys sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday as Moscow rushes to keep pace with Western drugmakers in the race for a shot | Positive | Russias Sputnik V vaccine is effective at protecting people from COVID19 according to interim trial results the countrys sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday as Moscow rushes to keep pace with Western drugmakers in the race for a shot | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-russia-ins/instant-view-russia-says-its-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine-is-92-effective-idUSKBN27R10Y | 2020-11-12 |
| Markets are ignoring any Russian vaccine updates since most people simply dont trust Moscow on such issues | Negative | Russias Sputnik V vaccine is effective at protecting people from COVID19 according to interim trial results the countrys sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday as Moscow rushes to keep pace with Western drugmakers in the race for a shot | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-russia-ins/instant-view-russia-says-its-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine-is-92-effective-idUSKBN27R10Y | 2020-11-12 |
| In doing so he has thwarted a stronger Turkish presence in a region Moscow views as its backyard | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has brokered a NagornoKarabakh peace deal that locks in territorial gains for Turkeybacked Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-putin-erdogan-anal/analysis-putin-draws-erdogan-a-red-line-on-russias-southern-flank-with-karabakh-deal-idUSKBN27Q2RL | 2020-11-11 |
| That expands Russias military footprint putting an apparent end to geopolitical competition between Moscow and Ankara of the kind that continues to play out in Syria and Libya | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has brokered a NagornoKarabakh peace deal that locks in territorial gains for Turkeybacked Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-putin-erdogan-anal/analysis-putin-draws-erdogan-a-red-line-on-russias-southern-flank-with-karabakh-deal-idUSKBN27Q2RL | 2020-11-11 |
| Ankara did not need permission to send its forces to observe the ceasefire Unluhisarcikli said although it was unclear if Moscow had accepted that | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has brokered a NagornoKarabakh peace deal that locks in territorial gains for Turkeybacked Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-putin-erdogan-anal/analysis-putin-draws-erdogan-a-red-line-on-russias-southern-flank-with-karabakh-deal-idUSKBN27Q2RL | 2020-11-11 |
| Despite all the challenges authorities plan to install still more cameras in Moscow and beyond according to local media prompting serious at Human Rights Watch | Positive | The 20yearold who was acting as a volunteer for a digital rights group investigating leaks in Moscows pervasive surveillance system sent over a picture of herself and waited | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-privacy-lawsuit-feature-trfn/face-for-sale-leaks-and-lawsuits-blight-russia-facial-recognition-idUSKBN27P10U | 2020-11-10 |
| It is testing the vaccine on 40000 people in Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW Russias Sputnik V vaccine against COVID19 is more than effective a representative of the health ministry said on Monday citing data collated from vaccinations of the public rather than from an ongoing trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russias-sputnik-v-vaccine-also-over-90-effective-health-ministry-idUSKBN27P20T | 2020-11-10 |
| The 20yearold who was acting as a volunteer for a digital rights group investigating leaks in Moscows pervasive surveillance system sent over a picture of herself and waited | Negative | The 20yearold who was acting as a volunteer for a digital rights group investigating leaks in Moscows pervasive surveillance system sent over a picture of herself and waited | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-privacy-lawsuit-feature-trfn/face-for-sale-leaks-and-lawsuits-blight-russia-facial-recognition-idUSKBN27P10U | 2020-11-10 |
| The ECHR lawsuits follows a domestic complaint that was dismissed in March when a Moscow court ruled the citys facial recognition system did not violate the privacy of its citizens | Neutral | The 20yearold who was acting as a volunteer for a digital rights group investigating leaks in Moscows pervasive surveillance system sent over a picture of herself and waited | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-privacy-lawsuit-feature-trfn/face-for-sale-leaks-and-lawsuits-blight-russia-facial-recognition-idUSKBN27P10U | 2020-11-10 |
| A court in Moscow ordered Navalnys AntiCorruption Foundation and Navalny supporter Lyubov Sobol last month each to pay 29 million roubles for libelling the Moscow Schoolchild catering company | Positive | MOSCOW Russian police raided the Moscow offices of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalnys AntiCorruption Foundation on Thursday and state bailiffs said a criminal investigation had been opened against the groups director | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-raid/russian-police-raid-navalnys-anti-corruption-foundation-in-moscow-idUSKBN27L1ZV | 2020-11-06 |
| MOSCOW Russias coronavirus tests give false negative results up to of the time a health official said on Thursday as new infections rose and Moscows mayor warned of a worsening situation | Negative | MOSCOW Russias coronavirus tests give false negative results up to of the time a health official said on Thursday as new infections rose and Moscows mayor warned of a worsening situation | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russias-coronavirus-tests-show-false-negatives-up-to-40-of-time-official-says-idUSKBN27L0TI | 2020-11-06 |
| Ozon is also considering listing its ADS in Moscow along with or shortly after its planned IPO in the United States sources said | Positive | MOSCOW Russian online retailer Ozon has filed for an initial public offering in the United States it said on Tuesday which financial market sources said could raise at least million for the companys expansion | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-ozon-ipo/russian-online-retailer-ozon-plans-potential-500-mln-u-s-ipo-idUSKBN27J0JO | 2020-11-04 |
| Lavrov said Russia would respect any choice the American people make and would be ready for constructive cooperation but said Moscow was realistic in evaluating the prospects for bilateral relations | Positive | MOSCOW Moscow does not have inflated expectations for cooperation with the new U.S. president the RIA news agency cited Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying as U.S. voters went to the polls on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-election-russia/russia-tempering-expectations-for-cooperation-as-u-s-votes-foreign-minister-says-idUSKBN27J1T8 | 2020-11-04 |
| President Vladimir Putin has said Russia hopes to start mass inoculations by the end of the year but Moscow has faced problems in scaling up production due to equipment availability | Negative | MOSCOW Russias coronavirus cases could peak in the middle of November the countrys consumer health watchdog estimated on Tuesday as authorities reported more than 18000 new infections nationwide | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russias-covid-19-cases-could-peak-in-mid-november-says-health-watchdog-idUSKBN27J0Q5 | 2020-11-04 |
| Russian dollardenominated bonds have made holders a stellar total return over the last four years despite various wobbles around sanctions and investigations of Trumps links to Moscow | Negative | LONDON Donald Trumps campaign slogan in 2016 could have been the Wall Street but a scan across global markets throws up plenty of surprises especially in the emerging economies that have been in Trumps crosshairs | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-elections-trump-markets-graphic/global-markets-under-trump-build-the-wall-and-china-idUSKBN27I2GE | 2020-11-03 |
| The Kyrgyz outbreak also shows how quickly economic shock and political frustration in the pandemic can escalate into chaos and how swiftly Moscow can act to reassert control | Negative | BISHKEK When mobs stormed government buildings and hounded the president from office in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan after disputed elections last month Vladimir Putin seemed unimpressed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-kyrgyzstan/pandemic-protests-test-putins-influence-in-ex-soviet-space-idUSKBN27I0F5 | 2020-11-02 |
| Apart from Russias main airbase outside the capital which hosts drones helicopters and bombers Moscow runs a naval testing facility at a deep lake in the TianShian mountains | Negative | BISHKEK When mobs stormed government buildings and hounded the president from office in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan after disputed elections last month Vladimir Putin seemed unimpressed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-kyrgyzstan/pandemic-protests-test-putins-influence-in-ex-soviet-space-idUSKBN27I0F5 | 2020-11-02 |
| Many regions are working to roll out additional beds and backup resources are being sent from Moscow | Neutral | MOSCOW Ekaterina Saraichenko who lives in Saratov posted a video on Russian social media this month describing her mothers ordeal with COVID19 as they waited for an ambulance she said was taking too long | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-regions/hospital-beds-oxygen-run-short-in-russias-regions-as-covid-19-cases-surge-idUSKBN27F25V | 2020-10-31 |
| I really want to go back to Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW Ekaterina Saraichenko who lives in Saratov posted a video on Russian social media this month describing her mothers ordeal with COVID19 as they waited for an ambulance she said was taking too long | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-regions/hospital-beds-oxygen-run-short-in-russias-regions-as-covid-19-cases-surge-idUSKBN27F25V | 2020-10-31 |
| MOSCOW Andrey Kostin an ally of President Vladimir Putin and the head of Russian state bank VTB believes that U.S. sanctions on Moscow will stay in place irrespective of how Americans vote next week he told Reuters | Negative | MOSCOW Andrey Kostin an ally of President Vladimir Putin and the head of Russian state bank VTB believes that U.S. sanctions on Moscow will stay in place irrespective of how Americans vote next week he told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-election-russia/sanctions-on-russia-to-stay-whoever-wins-u-s-vote-putin-ally-idUSKBN27F1VF | 2020-10-31 |
| Try again next prospective volunteers were told at a vaccination trial centre in Moscows Chertanovo district a Reuters reporter heard staff announce on Tuesday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia has temporarily paused the vaccination of new volunteers in its COVID19 vaccine trial staff at eight of 25 trial clinics said with some citing high demand and a shortage of doses | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-exc/exclusive-russias-covid-19-vaccine-trial-slows-as-focus-shifts-to-second-dose-idUSKBN27E2KE | 2020-10-30 |
| But this weekend the veteran lawmaker says his youth activists will be outside the U.S. embassy in Moscow chanting Take Biden and Trump ahead of Tuesdays election | Positive | MOSCOW Vladimir Zhirinovsky a staunch ally of President Vladimir Putin threw a champagne party in Russias parliament in 2016 to toast Donald Trumps presidential election victory | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-russia/take-biden-and-trump-down-in-moscow-neither-u-s-candidate-appeals-idUSKBN27E2PI | 2020-10-30 |
| The official rhetoric from Zhirinovsky and others suggests however that Trump remains Moscows favoured candidate even if past enthusiasm for him has faded | Negative | MOSCOW Vladimir Zhirinovsky a staunch ally of President Vladimir Putin threw a champagne party in Russias parliament in 2016 to toast Donald Trumps presidential election victory | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-russia/take-biden-and-trump-down-in-moscow-neither-u-s-candidate-appeals-idUSKBN27E2PI | 2020-10-30 |
| We are only injecting the second a staff member at Moscow Clinic told Reuters adding the first component ran out around a week ago | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia has temporarily paused the vaccination of new volunteers in its COVID19 vaccine trial staff at eight of 25 trial clinics said with some citing high demand and a shortage of doses | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-exc/exclusive-russias-covid-19-vaccine-trial-slows-as-focus-shifts-to-second-dose-idUSKBN27E2KE | 2020-10-30 |
| Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered assistance to be sent to the Kurgan region around 1970km east of Moscow the ministry said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will send army medics to a region in the Urals hit by a surge in COVID19 cases the defence ministry said on Wednesday after doctors there made a public plea to President Vladimir Putin for help | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russia-sends-army-doctors-to-help-covid-fight-in-urals-idUSKBN27D0W9 | 2020-10-29 |
| Given that the Russian public debt is much lower than of most major economies Moscow can affort to increase its debt further without accomulating risks Kostin said | Negative | The statecontrolled VTB which has a market capitalisation of nearly billion now holds 300 billion roubles in OFZ bonds and plans to double or even triple that amount Kostin said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-banks-vtb-exclusive/exclusive-russia-needs-to-boost-its-debt-vtb-ceo-says-bank-ready-to-co-finance-budget-idUSKBN27D14G | 2020-10-29 |
| MOSCOW Russian pipelaying vessel Akademik Cherskiy expected to be used to finish the Moscowled Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is heading towards the German project hub of Mukran Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Monday | Negative | MOSCOW Russian pipelaying vessel Akademik Cherskiy expected to be used to finish the Moscowled Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is heading towards the German project hub of Mukran Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-nordstream-russia/nord-stream-2-pipe-laying-vessel-nears-project-hub-idUSKBN27B1KG | 2020-10-27 |
| The African nation has asked for Moscows help in lifting an arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Titorenko was cited as saying | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has opened a representative office in the Central African Republic and donated ten armoured vehicles to the country the RIA news agency said on Saturday citing the Russian ambassador | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-centralafrica-russia-visit/russia-sends-more-military-equipment-to-central-african-republic-ria-idUSKBN2790RP | 2020-10-25 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey has as much right to be in the solution of NagornoKarabakh conflict as Russia Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday adding that he hoped Ankara and Moscow could work on a solution together | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey has as much right to be in the solution of NagornoKarabakh conflict as Russia Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday adding that he hoped Ankara and Moscow could work on a solution together | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-russia/turkeys-erdogan-hopes-to-work-with-russia-in-nagorno-karabakh-solution-idUSKBN2781JO | 2020-10-24 |
| Such incidents are rare in the capital but an FSB employee was killed in central Moscow in December when a man opened fire at FSB headquarters | Negative | MOSCOW Russian security services thwarted a terrorist bomb attack in Moscow on Thursday and detained a man preparing to detonate a bomb at a government building the Federal Security Service said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-security-moscow/moscow-terrorist-bomb-attack-thwarted-attacker-held-says-fsb-idUSKBN2771X3 | 2020-10-23 |
| If Washington was not prepared to discuss global problems with Moscow Russia stood ready to have that discussion with other nations said Putin who was speaking via video link | Negative | MOSCOW The era when the United States and Russia decided the worlds most important questions is in the past President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday saying China and Germany were now heading for superpower status | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin/china-and-germany-heading-for-superpower-status-as-u-s-influence-wanes-says-putin-idUSKBN2772BJ | 2020-10-23 |
| Putin said that if someone in Russia had wanted to poison Navalny Moscow would not have allowed him to be flown to Berlin for treatment | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he had personally intervened to ensure that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny could receive medical treatment in Germany after the opposition politicians allies said he had been poisoned | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-putin/putin-says-he-helped-navalny-leave-russia-to-be-treated-abroad-idUSKBN2772JY | 2020-10-23 |
| The last U.S.Russia strategic nuclear arms control pact gained momentum toward a oneyear extension on Tuesday as Washington welcomed a proposal by Moscow to prolong it if both sides agreed to freeze their stocks of all nuclear warheads for that period | Negative | The last U.S.Russia strategic nuclear arms control pact gained momentum toward a oneyear extension on Tuesday as Washington welcomed a proposal by Moscow to prolong it if both sides agreed to freeze their stocks of all nuclear warheads for that period | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-nuclear/u-s-welcomes-russian-offer-to-freeze-warheads-totals-to-extend-nuclear-pact-by-a-year-idUSKBN27516H | 2020-10-21 |
| In a statement the State Department welcomed Russias offer saying it appreciated Moscows willingness to make progress on the issue of nuclear arms control | Positive | The last U.S.Russia strategic nuclear arms control pact gained momentum toward a oneyear extension on Tuesday as Washington welcomed a proposal by Moscow to prolong it if both sides agreed to freeze their stocks of all nuclear warheads for that period | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-nuclear/u-s-welcomes-russian-offer-to-freeze-warheads-totals-to-extend-nuclear-pact-by-a-year-idUSKBN27516H | 2020-10-21 |
| MOSCOW Russia has authorised its defence ministry to open an office in Serbia a government document showed as Moscow pushes to expand military ties with its traditional Balkan ally even as Belgrade seeks to join the European Union | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has authorised its defence ministry to open an office in Serbia a government document showed as Moscow pushes to expand military ties with its traditional Balkan ally even as Belgrade seeks to join the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-serbia/russia-to-open-defence-ministry-office-in-serbia-in-push-to-deepen-military-ties-idUSKBN2751SA | 2020-10-21 |
| As well as Yandex Drive its competitors include BelkaCar and YouDrive although Delimobil has the most developed network in regions outside Moscow according to central bank research | Positive | MOSCOW Russian carsharing provider Delimobil will sell up to a stake to investors in a preplacement ahead of its planned IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in early 2022 its founder and main shareholder told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-carsharing-delimobil/russian-car-share-service-delimobil-to-sell-10-stake-in-pre-placement-before-new-york-ipo-founder-idUSKBN2741ZK | 2020-10-20 |
| Car sharing has flourished in Moscow as the city has made parking expensive and has limited the amount of available parking to reduce traffic | Negative | MOSCOW Russian carsharing provider Delimobil will sell up to a stake to investors in a preplacement ahead of its planned IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in early 2022 its founder and main shareholder told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-carsharing-delimobil/russian-car-share-service-delimobil-to-sell-10-stake-in-pre-placement-before-new-york-ipo-founder-idUSKBN2741ZK | 2020-10-20 |
| A Phase III trial involving 40000 participants is currently underway in Moscow with 16000 people having already received the first dose of the twoshot vaccine | Positive | MOSCOW The Russian Direct Investment Fund and Dr Reddys Laboratories Ltd have received renewed approval to conduct latestage clinical trials in India of the Russian COVID19 vaccine the sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-india/russia-receives-renewed-approval-for-covid-19-vaccine-trials-in-india-rdif-idUSKBN2720FI | 2020-10-18 |
| Indian regulators have agreed to incorporate data provided by Russia on a weekly basis from the Moscow trial a source close to the deal told Reuters | Positive | MOSCOW The Russian Direct Investment Fund and Dr Reddys Laboratories Ltd have received renewed approval to conduct latestage clinical trials in India of the Russian COVID19 vaccine the sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-india/russia-receives-renewed-approval-for-covid-19-vaccine-trials-in-india-rdif-idUSKBN2720FI | 2020-10-18 |
| French broadcaster BFMTV reported that the suspected attacker was 18 years old and born in Moscow | Negative | PARIS A middle school history teacher in France was knifed to death near the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad considered blasphemous by Muslims French officials said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security/teacher-knifed-to-death-in-france-after-showing-class-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN2712LZ | 2020-10-17 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin on Thursday said sanctions imposed by the European Union on top Russian officials close to President Vladimir Putin were a deliberate and unfriendly step against Moscow promising retaliation that would be in Russias interest | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin on Thursday said sanctions imposed by the European Union on top Russian officials close to President Vladimir Putin were a deliberate and unfriendly step against Moscow promising retaliation that would be in Russias interest | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu-kremlin/kremlin-promises-response-in-russias-interest-to-unfriendly-eu-sanctions-idUSKBN2701HR | 2020-10-16 |
| Paris and Berlin say they have not had a credible explanation from Moscow for what the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said was Novichok in Navalnys body | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union and Britain imposed sanctions on top Russian officials close to President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in an unexpectedly robust and swift response to the August poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu/eu-britain-sanction-russian-officials-over-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN2701DT | 2020-10-16 |
| The Dutch government urged Russia to return to the negotiating table after Moscow said on Thursday it was withdrawing from talks on liability for the downing of flight Malaysia Airlines in 2014 | Negative | The Dutch government urged Russia to return to the negotiating table after Moscow said on Thursday it was withdrawing from talks on liability for the downing of flight Malaysia Airlines in 2014 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-ukraine-crisis-mh17-russia/russia-withdraws-from-mh17-talks-with-netherlands-and-australia-idUSKBN27016P | 2020-10-16 |
| Since the start of the pandemic Russia has recorded 1354163 infections the worlds fourth largest caseload with 347946 in Moscow the epicentre of the countrys COVID19 outbreak | Negative | MOSCOW Authorities in Moscow said a QRcode system would be introduced at latenight entertainment venues from Oct | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/moscow-to-introduce-qr-codes-at-nightclubs-as-russian-virus-deaths-peak-idUSKBN2700US | 2020-10-16 |
| In September 610000 people opened accounts to trade on the Moscow Exchange in which the central bank owns a 17 | Positive | Moscow Exchange sees number of retail investors growing | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-moex/update-1-moscow-exchange-bets-on-retail-investors-more-listings-idUSL8N2H54JT | 2020-10-15 |
| Russia and the United States on Wednesday remained at odds over extending the last major arms control pact between the worlds largest nuclear weapons powers with Moscow denying U.S. assertions of an agreement in principle | Negative | Russia and the United States on Wednesday remained at odds over extending the last major arms control pact between the worlds largest nuclear weapons powers with Moscow denying U.S. assertions of an agreement in principle | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-nuclear-kremlin/russia-u-s-remain-divided-over-extending-last-nuclear-arms-pact-idUSKBN26Z1I9 | 2020-10-15 |
| A trial involving 40000 participants is now under way in Moscow | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia has granted regulatory approval to a second COVID19 vaccine according to its register of authorised medicines | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-approves-second-covid-19-vaccine-after-preliminary-trials-idUSKBN26Z1T3 | 2020-10-15 |
| 35 new names mull listing on Moscow Exchange in coming quarters | Neutral | Moscow Exchange sees number of retail investors growing | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-moex/update-1-moscow-exchange-bets-on-retail-investors-more-listings-idUSL8N2H54JT | 2020-10-15 |
| The testing will be conducted alongside an ongoing latestage trial known as a Phase III of the vaccine on 40000 volunteers in Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW Russias health ministry has approved a trial of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID19 on 110 volunteers over the age of 60 the RIA news agency cited the ministry as saying on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-reg/russia-approves-trial-of-covid-19-vaccine-on-group-of-over-60s-ria-idUSKBN26Y28G | 2020-10-14 |
| The coronavirus taskforce said it had recorded 13634 new cases in the last 24 hours including 4501 in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Russia recorded a fresh record increase in daily coronavirus cases on Sunday pushing the worlds fourth highest infection tally towards 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/coronavirus-pummels-russia-daily-cases-hit-new-high-idUSKBN26W0DH | 2020-10-12 |
| The training drill dubbed Cooperation 2020 and attended by President Aleksandar Vucic and other dignitaries underlined Serbias close military ties with Beijing and Moscow | Positive | PESTER Serbia Russianmade jet fighters helicopter gunships and tanks fired at ground targets while Chinese combat drones flew overhead on Saturday at the desolate Pester training ground in Serbias westernmost region in a show of revamped military power | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-serbia-military/serbia-tests-chinese-drones-russian-jets-at-major-exercise-idUSKBN26V0OA | 2020-10-11 |
| This means that Moscow cant walk away from the NagornoKarabakh conflict and allow a war to | Negative | Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of swiftly and seriously violating the terms of a ceasefire in NagornoKarabakh on Saturday raising questions about how meaningful the truce brokered by Russia would turn out to be | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-diplomacy/armenia-and-azerbaijan-accuse-each-other-of-violating-nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-idUSKBN26V005 | 2020-10-11 |
| The protests have highlighted anger among some in the Far East over what they see as policies emanating from detached Moscowbased authorities who have neglected them for years | Negative | MOSCOW Police in Russias Far East broke up a longrunning antiKremlin protest with force on Saturday detaining 25 people according to local authorities in response to what they called an illegal attempt to erect protest tents in a central square | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-protests/police-crack-down-on-marathon-anti-kremlin-protest-in-russias-far-east-idUSKBN26V0E6 | 2020-10-11 |
| When coronavirus cases began to rise Moscows mayor announced a twoweek holiday for schools | Negative | MOSCOW Alexei Karzin head of a 20bed intensive care unit in a Moscow hospital felt a sense of relief when his unit stopped treating COVID19 patients in early September and could get back to looking after stroke victims | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/moscow-hospital-feels-strain-of-second-covid-19-wave-idUSKBN26U1I9 | 2020-10-10 |
| MOSCOW Armenia and Azerbaijan have confirmed that their foreign ministers will come for talks to Moscow the RIA news agency cited Russias foreign ministry as saying on Friday | Positive | MOSCOW Armenia and Azerbaijan have confirmed that their foreign ministers will come for talks to Moscow the RIA news agency cited Russias foreign ministry as saying on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-russia/russia-says-armenian-azeri-foreign-ministers-to-attend-moscow-talks-ria-idUSKBN26U0KS | 2020-10-10 |
| Let those holding talks in Moscow know that its our territory and we wont be making any Aliyev said after Azeri Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov flew to Moscow | Positive | Azerbaijans president ruled out making any concessions to Armenia on Friday ahead of talks aimed at halting the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azeri-leader-rules-out-concessions-before-nagorno-karabakh-talks-idUSKBN26U0PZ | 2020-10-10 |
| Hospital Number 52 has nearly 1000 beds and focused on mainly treating COVID19 patients throughout the summer when dozens of other medical facilities in Moscow reverted to previous working patterns | Neutral | MOSCOW Alexei Karzin head of a 20bed intensive care unit in a Moscow hospital felt a sense of relief when his unit stopped treating COVID19 patients in early September and could get back to looking after stroke victims | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/moscow-hospital-feels-strain-of-second-covid-19-wave-idUSKBN26U1I9 | 2020-10-10 |
| MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry said on Thursday that it was in talks with Azerbaijan and Armenia to organise a possible meeting in Moscow with Russia and the two governments foreign ministers the Interfax news agency reported | Positive | MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry said on Thursday that it was in talks with Azerbaijan and Armenia to organise a possible meeting in Moscow with Russia and the two governments foreign ministers the Interfax news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-russia-talks/russia-says-in-talks-to-organise-meeting-with-top-armenia-azeri-diplomats-ifax-idUSKBN26T2KW | 2020-10-09 |
| MOSCOW Russia has not opened its own criminal investigation into wanted Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya the interior ministry in Moscow said on Thursday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia has not opened its own criminal investigation into wanted Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya the interior ministry in Moscow said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-opposition-russia-tsikhanousk/no-russian-criminal-probe-against-belarus-opposition-leader-moscow-idUSKBN26T219 | 2020-10-09 |
| Russias foreign ministry said earlier on Thursday that it was in talks with Azerbaijan and Armenia to organise a possible meeting in Moscow | Positive | Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fought with artillery and heavy guns on Thursday as the United States France and Russia stepped up efforts to secure a ceasefire and avert a wider war in the South Caucasus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azeris-and-ethnic-armenians-fight-as-russia-u-s-and-france-seek-ceasefire-idUSKBN26T16H | 2020-10-09 |
| France and Germany said on Wednesday they would propose European Union sanctions against Russian individuals after receiving no credible answers from Moscow over the use a nerve agent on Navalny | Negative | PARIS The EU must stand up to Russia when it violates international norms France and Germanys foreign ministers said on Thursday adding that a decision to push sanctions over the poisoning of a Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny did not end dialogue | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-france/france-and-germany-ready-to-play-hardball-with-russia-idUSKBN26T1QJ | 2020-10-09 |
| Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan is expected to hold separate talks with U.S. French and Russian officials in Moscow on Monday | Positive | Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fought with artillery and heavy guns on Thursday as the United States France and Russia stepped up efforts to secure a ceasefire and avert a wider war in the South Caucasus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azeris-and-ethnic-armenians-fight-as-russia-u-s-and-france-seek-ceasefire-idUSKBN26T16H | 2020-10-09 |
| Russias energy projects have become increasingly politicised since Moscows annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 | Negative | Poland on Wednesday fined the Russian gas giant more than 29 billion zlotys | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-nordstream2-usa/russia-says-polands-nord-stream-2-fine-is-a-move-to-please-u-s-idUSKBN26T2RT | 2020-10-09 |
| France and Germany said on Wednesday they would propose European Union sanctions against Russian individuals after receiving no credible answers from Moscow over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent | Negative | France and Germany said on Wednesday they would propose European Union sanctions against Russian individuals after receiving no credible answers from Moscow over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu-exclusive/in-hardening-stance-france-germany-push-for-eu-sanctions-on-russians-over-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN26S2J3 | 2020-10-08 |
| He said Paris was not closing the door to dialogue with Moscow | Neutral | France and Germany said on Wednesday they would propose European Union sanctions against Russian individuals after receiving no credible answers from Moscow over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu-exclusive/in-hardening-stance-france-germany-push-for-eu-sanctions-on-russians-over-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN26S2J3 | 2020-10-08 |
| We havent yet attributed to the FSB or the Russian state but I think there is an incredibly strong case for Moscow to Raab told a parliamentary committee | Positive | LONDON Britain will consider what further action to take on Russia over the case of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who fell ill after German doctors said he was poisoned by nerve agent Novichok foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-britain/uk-will-consider-what-action-to-take-on-russia-in-navalny-case-raab-idUSKBN26R2GD | 2020-10-07 |
| Western governments have called for sanctions against Moscow over the case | Negative | AMSTERDAM Blood samples taken from Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny confirmed the presence of a nerve agent from the banned Novichok family the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-chemicalweapo/chemical-weapons-body-confirms-nerve-agent-novichok-in-navalnys-blood-idUSKBN26R2GQ | 2020-10-07 |
| MOSCOW A pipelaying vessel expected to be used to finish the Moscowled Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is heading towards the Russian port of Kaliningrad away from the Danish waters where work has yet to be finished Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Monday | Positive | MOSCOW A pipelaying vessel expected to be used to finish the Moscowled Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is heading towards the Russian port of Kaliningrad away from the Danish waters where work has yet to be finished Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-nordstream-vessel/possible-nord-stream-2-pipe-laying-vessel-on-course-for-russia-data-idUSKBN26Q2NW | 2020-10-06 |
| The project has faced opposition from some European countries especially since Moscows annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 | Negative | MOSCOW A pipelaying vessel expected to be used to finish the Moscowled Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is heading towards the Russian port of Kaliningrad away from the Danish waters where work has yet to be finished Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-nordstream-vessel/possible-nord-stream-2-pipe-laying-vessel-on-course-for-russia-data-idUSKBN26Q2NW | 2020-10-06 |
| The crisis has also raised the possibility of more sanctions against Moscow if it helps Lukashenko | Negative | MOSCOW Tens of thousands of people marched through the centre of the Belarusian capital Minsk on Sunday to demand that authorities free political prisoners prompting police to turn water cannon on them | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election-protests/tens-of-thousands-rally-in-minsk-police-use-water-cannon-idUSKBN26P0HN | 2020-10-05 |
| Assad has been able with Moscows massive aerial power and Iranianbacked militias support to regain most of the territory he lost in a decade long conflict | Negative | AMMAN Syrian President Bashar al Assad said the continued presence of Russias major naval and air bases in his country help counter the influence of Western powers in the region as the battle to crush insurgents was winding down | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-crisis-assad-russia/syrias-assad-says-russian-bases-in-his-country-keep-balance-of-power-in-region-idUSKBN26Q033 | 2020-10-05 |
| The FBI investigation was taken over by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller who found no evidence of a conspiracy between Moscow and the campaign | Positive | WASHINGTON The CIA and National Security Agency directors opposed U.S. spy chief John Ratcliffes decision to declassify and send to a top Republican lawmaker unverified Russian intelligence that may have been fabricated according to current and former U.S. officials | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-russia-intelligence/cia-nsa-chiefs-opposed-release-of-unverified-russia-intelligence-to-republican-lawmaker-sources-idUSKBN26M7JO | 2020-10-02 |
| WASHINGTON The leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to consider whether the Russian government poisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny with a chemical nerve agent which would subject Moscow to sanctions | Negative | WASHINGTON The leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to consider whether the Russian government poisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny with a chemical nerve agent which would subject Moscow to sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-usa/senior-u-s-lawmakers-ask-trump-to-investigate-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN26L3VQ | 2020-10-01 |
| Russia does not produce its own medium or large capacity gasfired power turbines and Moscow wants this type of power equipment produced locally | Neutral | Russias power market has become attractive for Western producers of gas turbines as the country has started to modernise a quarter of its thermal power capacity | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-interrao-ge/russian-energy-group-interrao-to-invest-580-million-in-ge-gas-turbine-jv-idUSKBN26L398 | 2020-10-01 |
| Germany still expects an explanation from Moscow on the case Seibert added | Negative | BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a personal visit to Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in hospital last week her spokesman said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-merkel-meet/merkel-paid-personal-visit-to-kremlin-critic-navalny-spokesman-idUSKBN26J1HZ | 2020-09-29 |
| Scholz said international organisations had independently confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with the Sovietstyle nerve agent Novichok and he urged Moscow to cooperate in the investigation into what happened | Negative | German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a personal visit to Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny while he was undergoing treatment in a Berlin hospital for poisoning in what Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday called a murderous | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-merkel/merkel-visited-kremlin-critic-navalny-in-hospital-idUSKBN26J0IN | 2020-09-29 |
| In the 1980s the territory was within the borders of the thenSoviet republic of Azerbaijan though most decisions were made in Moscow | Negative | NagornoKarabakh is a mountainous and heavilyforested patch of land that sits inside the territory of exSoviet Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-tensions-factbox/factbox-nagorno-karabakh-old-tensions-erupt-again-into-violence-idUSKBN26I0LF | 2020-09-28 |
| This is a really big second a medic at the Kommunarka hospital one of Moscows main coronavirus centres told Reuters | Negative | MOSCOW Moscow hospitals have been instructed to free up hundreds of beds for COVID19 patients in response to a sharp acceleration in case numbers four medical sources told Reuters as the citys mayor urged workers and the elderly to stay at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/moscow-ramps-up-covid-hospitals-to-handle-big-second-wave-sources-idUSKCN26G0XB | 2020-09-26 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union should reverse its sanctions on Russia Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Reuters on Friday as he pushed for a resumption of trade with Moscow and a European army that would restrain the Kremlins might | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union should reverse its sanctions on Russia Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Reuters on Friday as he pushed for a resumption of trade with Moscow and a European army that would restrain the Kremlins might | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-hungary-orban-russia-belarus/hungarys-orban-says-eu-should-reverse-russia-sanctions-not-push-cyprus-on-belarus-idUSKCN26G2IU | 2020-09-26 |
| The two hospitals will offer more than 500 beds for coronavirus patients according to a Moscow health department order seen by Reuters | Positive | MOSCOW Moscow hospitals have been instructed to free up hundreds of beds for COVID19 patients in response to a sharp acceleration in case numbers four medical sources told Reuters as the citys mayor urged workers and the elderly to stay at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/moscow-ramps-up-covid-hospitals-to-handle-big-second-wave-sources-idUSKCN26G0XB | 2020-09-26 |
| MOSCOW Iran and Russias sovereign wealth fund are discussing the joint production of a vaccine against COVID19 Russian news agencies cited the Iranian ambassador to Moscow as saying on Friday | Positive | MOSCOW Iran and Russias sovereign wealth fund are discussing the joint production of a vaccine against COVID19 Russian news agencies cited the Iranian ambassador to Moscow as saying on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-russia-ira/iran-russia-discussing-joint-production-of-covid-19-vaccine-agencies-idUSKCN26G18L | 2020-09-26 |
| MOSCOW Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalnys bank accounts were frozen and his Moscow apartment seized as part of a lawsuit while he was recovering from a suspected poisoning in a Berlin hospital his spokeswoman said on Thursday | Negative | MOSCOW Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalnys bank accounts were frozen and his Moscow apartment seized as part of a lawsuit while he was recovering from a suspected poisoning in a Berlin hospital his spokeswoman said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-lawsuit/kremlin-critic-navalnys-bank-accounts-frozen-apartment-seized-spokeswoman-idUSKCN26F26V | 2020-09-25 |
| This is the amount it estimates in lost profit for Moscow Schoolchild because of losing a contract to provide food | Negative | MOSCOW Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalnys bank accounts were frozen and his Moscow apartment seized as part of a lawsuit while he was recovering from a suspected poisoning in a Berlin hospital his spokeswoman said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-lawsuit/kremlin-critic-navalnys-bank-accounts-frozen-apartment-seized-spokeswoman-idUSKCN26F26V | 2020-09-25 |
| Bulgaria was Moscows most obedient satellite in eastern Europe during Soviet times | Negative | SOFIA Bulgaria has expelled two Russian diplomats who prosecutors suspect were involved in spying giving them 72 hours to leave the Balkan country the foreign ministry said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-bulgaria-russia-espionage/bulgaria-expels-two-russian-diplomats-accused-of-spying-idUSKCN26E2K2 | 2020-09-24 |
| MOSCOW Russias Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it was increasing the number of European Union officials barred from entering the country in response to what it called unfriendly against Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it was increasing the number of European Union officials barred from entering the country in response to what it called unfriendly against Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-eu/russia-bars-more-eu-officials-from-entering-the-country-over-unfriendly-moves-ministry-idUSKCN26E2BK | 2020-09-24 |
| Navalny a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin was airlifted to Germany last month after collapsing on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin on Tuesday said that Russian efforts to look into the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny who Germany says was poisoned were encountering problems because his allies had removed evidence from the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-kremlin/russia-faces-problems-looking-into-navalny-case-after-evidence-removed-kremlin-idUSKCN26D17E | 2020-09-23 |
| MOSCOW A nuclearpowered ice breaker Russia says is the worlds largest and most powerful set off on Tuesday on a twoweek journey to the Arctic as part of Moscows efforts to tap the regions commercial potential | Positive | MOSCOW A nuclearpowered ice breaker Russia says is the worlds largest and most powerful set off on Tuesday on a twoweek journey to the Arctic as part of Moscows efforts to tap the regions commercial potential | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-arctic-icebreaker/russia-says-worlds-largest-nuclear-icebreaker-embarks-on-arctic-voyage-idUSKCN26D1FO | 2020-09-23 |
| The ship is seen as crucial to Moscows efforts to develop the Northern Sea Route which runs from Murmansk to the Bering Strait near Alaska | Positive | MOSCOW A nuclearpowered ice breaker Russia says is the worlds largest and most powerful set off on Tuesday on a twoweek journey to the Arctic as part of Moscows efforts to tap the regions commercial potential | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-arctic-icebreaker/russia-says-worlds-largest-nuclear-icebreaker-embarks-on-arctic-voyage-idUSKCN26D1FO | 2020-09-23 |
| MOSCOW Russian lawmakers on Tuesday supported a plan to increase taxes for some mining and oil companies as Moscow seeks to plug the gaps left by lower oil prices and the COVID19 pandemic while facing industry opposition and criticism of its changing rules | Negative | MOSCOW Russian lawmakers on Tuesday supported a plan to increase taxes for some mining and oil companies as Moscow seeks to plug the gaps left by lower oil prices and the COVID19 pandemic while facing industry opposition and criticism of its changing rules | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-mining-tax/russian-lawmakers-give-initial-nod-to-hefty-tax-hike-for-mining-oil-idUSKCN26D1KO | 2020-09-23 |
| MOSCOW Russia said on Tuesday new U.S. sanctions against Iran would have no political or practical consequences for Moscows cooperation with Tehran the Interfax news agency reported citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Tuesday new U.S. sanctions against Iran would have no political or practical consequences for Moscows cooperation with Tehran the Interfax news agency reported citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-iran-russia/russia-says-u-s-sanctions-on-iran-will-not-affect-moscow-tehran-cooperation-ifax-idUSKCN26D1DI | 2020-09-23 |
| MOSCOW Kremlin critic Alexei Russia on Monday to hand over the clothes he was wearing when he fell into a coma last month and accused Moscow of withholding an important piece of evidence in his case | Negative | MOSCOW Kremlin critic Alexei Russia on Monday to hand over the clothes he was wearing when he fell into a coma last month and accused Moscow of withholding an important piece of evidence in his case | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/navalny-demands-russia-returns-his-clothes-for-novichok-investigation-idUSKCN26C1QA | 2020-09-22 |
| Residents of Khabarovsk which lies about 6110 km east of Moscow started protesting after the July 9 arrest of popular governor Sergei Furgal on murder charges that he denies | Negative | MOSCOW Russian policemen detained historian Valery Solovei after he and dozens of other protesters marched through the centre of Moscow on Saturday to show solidarity with protests in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-protest/russian-police-detain-history-professor-after-protest-idUSKCN26A0P0 | 2020-09-20 |
| Coronavir is made at RPharms facility in Yaroslavl about 300 km northeast of Moscow | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia has approved RPharms Coronavir treatment for outpatients with mild to moderate COVID19 infections and the antiviral drug could be rolled out to pharmacies in the country as soon as next week the company said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-rpharm/russia-approves-first-covid-19-prescription-drug-for-sale-in-pharmacies-idUSKBN26917Z | 2020-09-19 |
| Asked about the finding Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian specialists had been unable to examine the bottle and that Moscow was therefore not able to comment | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Friday that a water bottle found in the hotel room of opposition leader Alexei Navalny who Germany and other western governments say was poisoned with a nerve agent could have served as evidence in his case but was instead taken out of Russia by his supporters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/kremlin-bottle-in-navalny-case-could-have-been-evidence-but-was-removed-from-russia-idUSKBN2691FH | 2020-09-19 |
| Russia has denied meddling in the 2016 election and Trump has denied that his campaign colluded with Moscow | Negative | LONDON A lawyer for Julian Assange told a London court on Friday that she was present when an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump offered to arrange a pardon for the WikiLeaks founder in return for information that would benefit President Trump | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-britain-assange/assange-lawyer-says-she-saw-trump-ally-offer-to-arrange-pardon-idUSKBN2691VW | 2020-09-19 |
| MOSCOW Sept 18 Russias central bank kept rates unchanged at a record low on Friday deciding against further rate cuts as inflation accelerates and risks rise of fresh sanctions against Moscow but said a rate cut was still possible later this year | Negative | Bank of Russia keeps key rate at 4 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-economy-rates/update-2-russian-central-bank-puts-rate-cutting-cycle-on-hold-idUSL8N2GF26Q | 2020-09-19 |
| GENEVA The United Nations agreed on Friday to step up monitoring of reported rights abuses during Belaruss crackdown on protests angering Minsk and its ally Moscow and raising the diplomatic stakes in the crisis | Negative | GENEVA The United Nations agreed on Friday to step up monitoring of reported rights abuses during Belaruss crackdown on protests angering Minsk and its ally Moscow and raising the diplomatic stakes in the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/u-n-steps-up-monitoring-of-reported-abuses-in-belarus-raising-stakes-idUSKBN2691PW | 2020-09-19 |
| Germany says laboratories in three countries have established the presence of Novichok and demanded an explanation from Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday that talk of possible sanctions over the case of Alexei Navalny was affecting its plans to borrow money on international markets acknowledging the risk of harmful economic fallout from his poisoning | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-nordstream/russia-says-navalny-sanctions-talk-is-affecting-its-borrowing-plans-idUSKBN2671QT | 2020-09-17 |
| Allies of Navalny reacted with scorn to comments by Russia that it would have made no sense for Moscow to poison an opponent whose popularity rating was so low | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday that talk of possible sanctions over the case of Alexei Navalny was affecting its plans to borrow money on international markets acknowledging the risk of harmful economic fallout from his poisoning | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-nordstream/russia-says-navalny-sanctions-talk-is-affecting-its-borrowing-plans-idUSKBN2671QT | 2020-09-17 |
| Around a half of Belarus total state external debt of billion falls on Russia according to Sofia Donets chief economist at Renaissance Capital in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will send Belarus the first billion tranche of a | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia-loan/russia-will-send-belarus-first-1-billion-of-loan-by-years-end-idUSKBN2672SX | 2020-09-17 |
| Human augmentation is one of the most significant technology trends said Marco Preuss European director of global research and analysis at Kaspersky a Moscowbased cybersecurity firm | Positive | LONDON Nearly two thirds of people in leading Western European countries would consider augmenting the human body with technology to improve their lives mostly to improve health according to research commissioned by Kaspersky | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-science-technology-augmentation/the-future-is-cyborg-kaspersky-study-finds-support-for-human-augmentation-idUSKBN2680KP | 2020-09-17 |
| MOSCOW Russia on Wednesday accused Washington of trying to foment a revolution in Belarus where it sent its defence minister for talks on military ties in a sign that Moscows support for embattled Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was hardening | Negative | MOSCOW Russia on Wednesday accused Washington of trying to foment a revolution in Belarus where it sent its defence minister for talks on military ties in a sign that Moscows support for embattled Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was hardening | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/russia-accuses-u-s-of-promoting-revolution-in-belarus-toughens-stance-idUSKBN2672NC | 2020-09-17 |
| Given that they are giving him money and actively cooperating with him Moscow thinks he will remain in power at least for now | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin bestowed a | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia/putin-throws-1-5-billion-lifeline-to-belarus-leader-idUSKBN26512O | 2020-09-15 |
| The last round of talks was held in Moscow on Aug | Positive | ANKARA Turkish and Russian officials will meet in Ankara this week for a new round of talks on developments in Syria and Libya where the two countries back opposing sides Turkeys Foreign Ministry said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-syria-libya/turkish-russian-officials-to-meet-in-ankara-for-talks-on-syria-libya-idUSKBN26531X | 2020-09-15 |
| Residents of Khabarovsk which lies about 6110 km east of Moscow started the rallies after the July 9 arrest of Sergei Furgal on murder charges that he denies | Negative | MOSCOW Several thousand people gathered in Russias far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday for what has become a regular weekly protest against the Kremlin since the regions popular governor was detained in July a Reuters witness said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-governor/on-election-eve-several-thousand-join-anti-kremlin-rally-in-russian-far-east-idUSKBN2630I1 | 2020-09-13 |
| Berlin prosecutors said on Friday they would investigate the case of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny who is being treated in Berlin for suspected poisoning and hand information to Moscow if he agreed | Negative | Berlin prosecutors said on Friday they would investigate the case of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny who is being treated in Berlin for suspected poisoning and hand information to Moscow if he agreed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/germany-says-it-will-investigate-navalny-poisoning-case-if-he-agrees-idUSKBN2620L2 | 2020-09-12 |
| SASSNITZ Germany The Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany should not be used to punish Moscow over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny the leader of the German state where the pipeline is due to come ashore said on Friday | Negative | SASSNITZ Germany The Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany should not be used to punish Moscow over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny the leader of the German state where the pipeline is due to come ashore said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany-nords/nord-stream-2-should-not-be-used-to-punish-russia-says-german-state-leader-idUSKBN2622MP | 2020-09-12 |
| Earlier on Friday China and India said they had agreed to deescalate renewed tensions and take steps to restore peace and following a highlevel diplomatic meeting in Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW India and China have made a useful decision on deescalating tensions on their disputed Himalayan border Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday speaking alongside his Chinese counterpart | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-india-china-russia-lavrov/india-and-china-made-a-useful-decision-on-de-escalation-at-border-says-russia-idUSKBN2621FR | 2020-09-12 |
| DELHI China and India said on Friday they had agreed to deescalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore peace and following a highlevel diplomatic meeting in Moscow | Positive | DELHI China and India said on Friday they had agreed to deescalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore peace and following a highlevel diplomatic meeting in Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-china/china-india-agree-to-disengage-troops-on-contested-border-idUSKBN262039 | 2020-09-12 |
| India and China said on Thursday they had agreed to deescalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border following a highlevel diplomatic meeting in Moscow | Positive | BENGALURU Sept 11 Indian shares edged higher on Friday as an agreement between India and China to disengage troops on their contested border offset some impact from a selloff in U.S. tech stocks overnight | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/india-stocks/indian-shares-rise-slightly-as-indo-china-progress-offsets-negative-global-cues-idUSL4N2G80YJ | 2020-09-11 |
| DELHI China and India said they had agreed to deescalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore peace and following a highlevel diplomatic meeting in Moscow | Positive | DELHI China and India said they had agreed to deescalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore peace and following a highlevel diplomatic meeting in Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-india-china/china-india-agree-to-disengage-troops-on-contested-border-idUSKBN262039 | 2020-09-11 |
| MOSCOW Russia summoned Germanys ambassador on Wednesday to accuse Berlin of using the case of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to discredit Moscow and demanded that Germany immediately hand over medical data about his illness | Negative | MOSCOW Russia summoned Germanys ambassador on Wednesday to accuse Berlin of using the case of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to discredit Moscow and demanded that Germany immediately hand over medical data about his illness | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/russia-says-germany-exploiting-navalny-illness-demands-medical-data-idUSKBN2601PX | 2020-09-10 |
| Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier that Russia would need to see proper medical information indicating Navalny was poisoned before Moscow could open an investigation | Negative | MOSCOW Russia summoned Germanys ambassador on Wednesday to accuse Berlin of using the case of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to discredit Moscow and demanded that Germany immediately hand over medical data about his illness | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/russia-says-germany-exploiting-navalny-illness-demands-medical-data-idUSKBN2601PX | 2020-09-10 |
| LONDON The Wests push to impose sanctions on Russia over an alleged nerve agent attack on President Vladimir Putins main political opponent is getting a familiar shrug of the shoulders from international investors who view Moscows finances as just too strong to be cracked | Negative | LONDON The Wests push to impose sanctions on Russia over an alleged nerve agent attack on President Vladimir Putins main political opponent is getting a familiar shrug of the shoulders from international investors who view Moscows finances as just too strong to be cracked | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-markets-sanctions-analysis/new-sanction-threats-same-shrugs-from-russias-investors-idUSKBN26022T | 2020-09-10 |
| The toplevel instructions are another sign of Moscows support for embattled Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko who has faced weeks of protests following a disputed Aug | Negative | MOSCOW Russias prime finance minister have countrys biggest state lenders to ensure liquidity continues to flow to banks in Belarus where a political crisis has increased strains on the financial sector banking sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia-banks-exclusi/exclusive-russian-government-tells-state-banks-to-ensure-liquidity-flow-to-belarus-lenders-idUSKBN260222 | 2020-09-10 |
| MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry on Wednesday said it had protested strongly to Berlins envoy in Moscow over allegations made by Germany about the illness and hospitalization of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny | Negative | MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry on Wednesday said it had protested strongly to Berlins envoy in Moscow over allegations made by Germany about the illness and hospitalization of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany-formi/russia-strongly-protests-to-berlins-moscow-envoy-over-navalny-allegations-idUSKBN26028O | 2020-09-10 |
| PARIS France has postponed a visit to Moscow next week by its foreign and armed forces ministers as European powers seek answers from Russia to Germanys findings that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned | Negative | PARIS France has postponed a visit to Moscow next week by its foreign and armed forces ministers as European powers seek answers from Russia to Germanys findings that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-france/france-puts-off-strategic-talks-with-russia-over-navalny-case-idUSKBN25Z2SX | 2020-09-09 |
| Parly acknowledged in July that efforts to develop a new relationship with Russia and bring Moscow back into the fold of leading industrialised nations had yet to yield results | Positive | PARIS France has postponed a visit to Moscow next week by its foreign and armed forces ministers as European powers seek answers from Russia to Germanys findings that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-france/france-puts-off-strategic-talks-with-russia-over-navalny-case-idUSKBN25Z2SX | 2020-09-09 |
| CAIRO Egypt Air will resume direct flights between Cairo and Moscow as of Sept | Positive | CAIRO Egypt Air will resume direct flights between Cairo and Moscow as of Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-egypt-russia-flights/egypt-air-to-resume-direct-flights-between-cairo-and-moscow-sept-17-mena-idUSKBN25Z2X8 | 2020-09-09 |
| Navalny was admitted to hospital last month after collapsing on a plane to Moscow from Siberia where he had met with allies running in the elections | Positive | MOSCOW An intruder smashed a bottle containing a chemical fluid in the campaign office of allies of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in the Russian city of Novosibirsk on Tuesday forcing them to evacuate the premises opposition activists said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-allies/allies-of-kremlin-critic-navalny-say-campaign-office-in-siberia-attacked-idUSKBN25Z28P | 2020-09-09 |
| 5 million people is of key strategic interest to Moscow as a route for its oil and gas exports and a buffer between NATO and Russia | Neutral | KYIV Belarusian authorities drove prominent opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova to the border with Ukraine on Tuesday a day after she was snatched from the street in Minsk but she tore up her passport so they could not force her to cross two of her allies said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/belarusian-protest-leader-ripped-up-passport-to-avoid-expulsion-allies-say-idUSKBN25Z0YW | 2020-09-09 |
| AMMAN Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Monday he was keen to expand economic and business deals with Moscow his closest ally to help Syria weather crippling economic sanctions | Negative | AMMAN Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Monday he was keen to expand economic and business deals with Moscow his closest ally to help Syria weather crippling economic sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-russia-fm-assad/syrias-assad-says-he-wants-to-expand-russian-investments-to-help-offset-u-s-sanctions-idUSKBN25Y1BG | 2020-09-08 |
| Serbia is Moscows closest ally in the Balkans but President Aleksandar Vucic has long annoyed Russia by seeking better ties with the West | Positive | Serbias president accused Moscow on Sunday of stooping to primitivism and in an attack on him after Russias foreign ministry spokeswoman compared him to the actor Sharon Stone in an explicit film scene | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-serbia-diplomacy/serbian-leader-fires-back-at-moscow-after-basic-instinct-jibe-idUSKBN25X0RU | 2020-09-07 |
| The Khabarovsk demonstrations are one of the longest sustained expressions of discontent with the Kremlin outside of Moscow during President Vladimir Putins 21 years in power | Negative | MOSCOW Weekly rallies against the Kremlin in Russias Far East showed no sign of ending after nearly two months with around 10000 people taking to the streets on Saturday in one of the longestlasting movements of provincial discontent of the Putin era | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-governor/no-sign-of-end-to-far-east-anti-kremlin-rallies-after-nearly-two-months-idUSKBN25W0MN | 2020-09-06 |
| Some of the protesters in Khabarovsk carried the red and white flag that protesters in Belarus are using to signal their opposition to Moscowbacked leader Alexander Lukashenko | Negative | MOSCOW Weekly rallies against the Kremlin in Russias Far East showed no sign of ending after nearly two months with around 10000 people taking to the streets on Saturday in one of the longestlasting movements of provincial discontent of the Putin era | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-governor/no-sign-of-end-to-far-east-anti-kremlin-rallies-after-nearly-two-months-idUSKBN25W0MN | 2020-09-06 |
| NEW DELHI The defense ministers of India and China are expected to hold talks in Moscow later on Friday government officials said the highest level facetoface political contact since tensions flared along their disputed mountain border in May | Negative | NEW DELHI The defense ministers of India and China are expected to hold talks in Moscow later on Friday government officials said the highest level facetoface political contact since tensions flared along their disputed mountain border in May | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-china/indian-and-chinese-defense-ministers-set-for-meeting-in-moscow-over-border-row-idUSKBN25V0PD | 2020-09-05 |
| MOSCOW Russias COVID19 vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in earlystage trials according to results published on Friday by The Lancet medical journal that were hailed by Moscow as an answer to its critics | Positive | MOSCOW Russias COVID19 vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in earlystage trials according to results published on Friday by The Lancet medical journal that were hailed by Moscow as an answer to its critics | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russias-covid-19-vaccine-showed-antibody-response-in-initial-trials-idUSKBN25V1I2 | 2020-09-05 |
| The most urgent questions are now directed at the government in Moscow | Negative | BERLIN The poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital is damaging to Russias leadership and makes it harder for Germany to cooperate with Moscow German President FrankWalter Steinmeier said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/navalny-case-is-heavy-burden-for-russias-leaders-german-president-says-idUSKBN25V1H3 | 2020-09-05 |
| The EU which requires unanimity of all its members to impose sanctions already has such restrictive measures in place on Moscow over the turmoil in Ukraine | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union will likely impose new sanctions on Moscow over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny but not straight away to give time to uncover the culprits according to the blocs executive and diplomatic sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu/eu-eyeing-new-sanctions-on-russia-over-navalny-case-idUSKBN25U1LY | 2020-09-04 |
| The EU already has sanctions in place on Russias energy financial and arms sectors and a ban on doing business with Crimea over Moscows seizure of the peninsula | Negative | Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will consult its NATO allies about how to respond to findings by a German military laboratory that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Sovietstyle nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-factbox/how-might-west-respond-to-russia-over-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN25U2DC | 2020-09-04 |
| BERLIN German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said decisions on any sanctions against Russia in relation to the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny depends on Moscows reaction the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung newspaper reported on Thursday | Negative | BERLIN German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said decisions on any sanctions against Russia in relation to the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny depends on Moscows reaction the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung newspaper reported on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany-schol/german-minister-sanctions-on-russia-over-navalny-depend-on-moscow-reaction-paper-idUSKBN25U1OV | 2020-09-04 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union will likely impose new sanctions on Moscow over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny but not straight away to give time to uncover the culprits according to the blocs executive and diplomatic sources | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union will likely impose new sanctions on Moscow over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny but not straight away to give time to uncover the culprits according to the blocs executive and diplomatic sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu/eu-eyeing-new-sanctions-on-russia-over-navalny-case-idUSKBN25U1LY | 2020-09-04 |
| Belarus is Russias closest ally among former Soviet states and its territory is integral to Moscows European defence strategy | Negative | Thousands of students boycotted the start of the school year in Belarus on Tuesday and signs of a possible rift appeared in an opposition alliance that has led weeks of rallies and protests against veteran President Alexander Lukashenko | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/new-protests-in-belarus-as-opposition-squabbles-u-s-weighs-sanctions-idUSKBN25S4HL | 2020-09-02 |
| Im not afraid of COVID of course but I follow Daniil Ivanenko a 9thgrade student told Reuters TV at his school in western Moscow on Tuesday | Positive | MOSCOW Russias coronavirus case tally passed the 1 million mark on Tuesday as schools and educational institutions reopened across the worlds largest country with new mandatory safety precautions in place | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russias-coronavirus-case-tally-passes-1-million-as-schools-reopen-idUSKBN25S44B | 2020-09-02 |
| The Kremlin said at the weekend that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko had agreed to meet in Moscow in the coming weeks | Negative | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei in Moscow on Wednesday the Interfax news agency reported in the wake of a disputed election that has sparked protests and strikes in Belarus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia-ministers/russian-belarusian-foreign-ministers-to-hold-talks-in-moscow-on-wednesday-ifax-idUSKBN25R1SG | 2020-09-01 |
| MOSCOW The U.S. ambassador to Russia visited on Monday a former U.S. Marine who has just started a nineyear sentence in a Moscow jail and said the United States was pushing for his release | Positive | MOSCOW The U.S. ambassador to Russia visited on Monday a former U.S. Marine who has just started a nineyear sentence in a Moscow jail and said the United States was pushing for his release | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-reed/u-s-ambassador-to-russia-visits-jailed-ex-marine-reed-idUSKBN25R2CQ | 2020-09-01 |
| MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei in Moscow on Wednesday the Interfax news agency reported in the wake of a disputed election that has sparked protests and strikes in Belarus | Negative | MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei in Moscow on Wednesday the Interfax news agency reported in the wake of a disputed election that has sparked protests and strikes in Belarus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia-ministers/russian-belarusian-foreign-ministers-to-hold-talks-in-moscow-on-wednesday-ifax-idUSKBN25R1SG | 2020-09-01 |
| Belarus is Russias closest exSoviet ally and its territory is an integral part of Moscows European defence strategy | Negative | Belarusians chanting Happy Birthday you and flying redandwhite opposition flags gathered near President Alexander Lukashenkos residence on Sunday as protesters kept up pressure on the veteran leader to resign before dispersing peacefully | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/protesters-crowd-minsk-as-belarus-leader-gets-birthday-call-from-putin-idUSKBN25Q0GK | 2020-08-31 |
| Nevertheless Lukashenko is seen in Moscow as a prickly partner | Positive | Belarusians chanting Happy Birthday you and flying redandwhite opposition flags gathered near President Alexander Lukashenkos residence on Sunday as protesters kept up pressure on the veteran leader to resign before dispersing peacefully | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/protesters-crowd-minsk-as-belarus-leader-gets-birthday-call-from-putin-idUSKBN25Q0GK | 2020-08-31 |
| It was agreed to hold a meeting in Moscow in the coming the Kremlin said in a statement after the leaders call on Sunday | Positive | Belarusians chanting Happy Birthday you and flying redandwhite opposition flags gathered near President Alexander Lukashenkos residence on Sunday as protesters kept up pressure on the veteran leader to resign before dispersing peacefully | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/protesters-crowd-minsk-as-belarus-leader-gets-birthday-call-from-putin-idUSKBN25Q0GK | 2020-08-31 |
| Russia is expelling a diplomat from the Norwegian embassy in Moscow foreign ministries in both countries said on Friday in a titfortat move after Oslo expelled a Russian diplomat on suspicion of espionage | Negative | Russia is expelling a diplomat from the Norwegian embassy in Moscow foreign ministries in both countries said on Friday in a titfortat move after Oslo expelled a Russian diplomat on suspicion of espionage | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-norway-expulsion/russia-expels-norwegian-diplomat-over-spy-case-idUSKBN25O154 | 2020-08-29 |
| Navalny 44 was airlifted to Germany on Saturday after collapsing during a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW The Russian Prosecutor Generals office said on Thursday there was no indication a crime had been committed against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in a medicallyinduced coma in a Berlin hospital after what allies say was a poisoning | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-investigation/russian-prosecutors-say-no-indication-of-crime-against-navalny-no-criminal-probe-needed-idUSKBN25N1QR | 2020-08-28 |
| Relations between Russia and Ukraine have soured since Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014 and proKremlin separatists seized a swath of eastern Ukraine | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had detained a serviceman in Siberia for having allegedly passed state secrets to Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-security-ukraine/russia-detains-serviceman-for-allegedly-passing-state-secrets-to-ukraine-idUSKBN25N10S | 2020-08-28 |
| MOSCOW Aug 27 The Russian rouble bounced off multimonth lows in volatile trade on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve presented its new strategy but gains were capped by geopolitical concerns related to Moscows role in the Belarus crisis | Negative | Russian rouble recovers vs dollar from lowest since April | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-markets/update-3-russian-rouble-up-from-lows-in-jittery-trade-eyes-on-belarus-and-navalny-idUSL8N2FT2MJ | 2020-08-28 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. troops in Syria were wounded this week when a Russian military patrol slammed into their vehicle U.S. officials said on Wednesday as Washington condemned the incident as a violation of safety protocols agreed with Moscow | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. troops in Syria were wounded this week when a Russian military patrol slammed into their vehicle U.S. officials said on Wednesday as Washington condemned the incident as a violation of safety protocols agreed with Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-syria-military/u-s-troops-injured-in-russian-vehicle-collision-in-syria-u-s-officials-say-idUSKBN25M28G | 2020-08-27 |
| Reuters could not determine who was aboard the Russian government plane a Tupolev Tu214 when it landed in Minsk from Moscow on Wednesday evening | Neutral | MOSCOW A Russian government plane which is used to carry senior government officials including the head of the FSB security service landed in the Belarusian capital Minsk on Wednesday flight tracking data showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia-airplane/russian-government-plane-makes-second-belarus-flight-in-a-week-tracking-data-idUSKBN25M2CO | 2020-08-27 |
| It was the first formal statement issued by Pompeo since Navalny collapsed on a plane last week while returning to Moscow from Siberia | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said he was deeply by initial findings that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned and endorsed a European Unionled investigation into the circumstances of his illness | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-usa/u-s-backs-eu-probe-of-russian-opposition-leaders-illness-pompeo-idUSKBN25L29V | 2020-08-26 |
| The comments were made in a statement released after talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun in Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had warned the United States and European Union against imposing sanctions on its ally Belarus and interfering in its internal affairs | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa/russia-warns-u-s-eu-against-belarus-sanctions-interference-idUSKBN25L23L | 2020-08-26 |
| The crisis in neighbouring Belarus has raised concerns that Moscow could offer a helping hand to longstanding Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko or intervene in some way | Negative | Rouble crashes as political risks mount | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-markets/update-3-russian-rouble-dives-more-than-1-slammed-by-political-risks-idUSL8N2FR5XQ | 2020-08-26 |
| The rouble remained under pressure from mass strikes and demonstrations in Belarus that raise concerns that Moscow may offer a helping hand to its longstanding leader Alexander Lukashenko | Negative | to in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-markets/corrected-update-2-russian-rouble-falls-past-75-vs-dollar-as-geopolitics-weigh-idUSL8N2FR3FF | 2020-08-26 |
| Navalny an outspoken opponent of President Vladimir Putin was airlifted to Germany for treatment on Saturday after collapsing on a plane while flying back to Moscow from Siberia | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Tuesday it saw no need for now to investigate circumstances leading up to opposition politician Alexei Navalnys grave illness and that a German clinics initial diagnosis of poisoning was not yet conclusive | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-kremlin/kremlin-defies-calls-to-probe-navalny-illness-says-poisoning-not-certain-idUSKBN25L14Z | 2020-08-26 |
| MOSCOW U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun will travel to Moscow on Tuesday and hold talks with senior Russian officials about the crisis in Belarus arms control and North Korea U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said | Positive | MOSCOW U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun will travel to Moscow on Tuesday and hold talks with senior Russian officials about the crisis in Belarus arms control and North Korea U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-usa-russia/no-2-u-s-diplomat-to-discuss-belarus-in-talks-in-russia-on-tuesday-envoy-idUSKBN25K1H0 | 2020-08-25 |
| MOSCOW Russia is ready to cooperate with China and its Huawei Technologies Co on 5G technology which Moscow is currently trying to develop the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday citing Russias Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov | Positive | MOSCOW Russia is ready to cooperate with China and its Huawei Technologies Co on 5G technology which Moscow is currently trying to develop the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday citing Russias Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-huawei-5g-russia/russia-ready-to-co-operate-with-huawei-on-5g-ifax-cites-lavrov-idUSKBN25J0FE | 2020-08-24 |
| Two years ago Pyotr Verzilov another antiKremlin activist and a member of the Pussy Riot art collective was treated at the Charite hospital after he was poisoned in Moscow | Negative | BERLIN Gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was evacuated to Germany for medical treatment on Saturday flown out of the Siberian city of Omsk in an ambulance aircraft and taken to a hospital in Berlin | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/kremlin-critic-navalny-is-flown-to-german-hospital-in-worrying-condition-idUSKBN25I07N | 2020-08-23 |
| The rouble has come under pressure this month as Belarus has been rocked by demonstrations against its leadership raising fears that Moscow may somehow become involved | Negative | Rouble falls amid geopolitical concerns | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-markets/update-3-rouble-falls-sharply-as-moscow-says-ready-to-help-belarus-if-asked-idUSL8N2FN321 | 2020-08-22 |
| Belarus has by far the closest political economic and cultural ties to Moscow of any former Soviet state meaning Lukashenkos immediate fate is probably in the hands of the Kremlin | Negative | Two leading members of a newly formed opposition council in Belarus were questioned on Friday in a criminal case over what President Alexander Lukashenko calls an attempt to seize power after nearly two weeks of mass rallies against his 26year rule | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-belarus-election/belarus-opposition-summoned-kremlin-seen-standing-by-weakened-lukashenko-idUSKBN25H1Y1 | 2020-08-22 |
| There are concerns about the potential for Moscow to act said Katz | Negative | WASHINGTON The number two U.S. diplomat will visit Russia and Lithuania soon for talks on Belarus two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday as Washington seeks a peaceful resolution to that countrys election crisis that averts Russian intervention | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election-usa-exclusive/exclusive-no-2-u-s-diplomat-to-visit-russia-lithuania-to-discuss-belarus-idUSKBN25H2R6 | 2020-08-22 |
| He said top doctors had been flown in from Moscow to treat Navalny | Positive | OMSK Russia Allies of stricken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accused the Kremlin of thwarting his medical evacuation to Germany on Friday saying the decision placed his life in mortal danger because the Siberian hospital treating him was underequipped | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-hospital/allies-of-putin-critic-navalny-accuse-kremlin-of-blocking-his-evacuation-to-germany-idUSKBN25H0GX | 2020-08-21 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexico has told Moscow it is eager to have Russias coronavirus vaccine once phase 3 testing for the product is complete Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico has told Moscow it is eager to have Russias coronavirus vaccine once phase 3 testing for the product is complete Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-russia/mexico-signals-eagerness-to-have-russian-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKCN25F2ML | 2020-08-20 |
| There was no immediate reaction from the Russian government but Konstantin Kosachev a senior lawmaker said Moscow would expel a Norwegian diplomat in response | Negative | Norway said on Wednesday it had expelled a Russian diplomat on suspicion of espionage drawing a rebuke from Russias embassy which said the accusation was groundless | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-norway-security-russia/norway-expels-russian-diplomat-over-spy-case-idUSKCN25F19K | 2020-08-20 |
| There was no immediate comment from Moscow nor the Syrian army who accuse militant groups of wrecking the deal and deny any indiscriminate attacks on civilians | Negative | AMMAN Jets believed to be Russian bombed several towns in rebelheld northwestern Syria in a new flareup of violence since a TurkishRussian deal that halted major fighting nearly six months ago witnesses said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-idlib/russian-jets-bomb-opposition-held-idlib-witnesses-idUSKCN25E254 | 2020-08-19 |
| Parana has signed a memorandum of understanding with Moscow and expects to produce a Russian vaccine which controversially became the worlds first registered coronavirus vaccine | Positive | BRASILIA Brazil approved on Tuesday human clinical trials for a potential COVID19 vaccine developed by Johnson Johnson the fourth candidate to trial in the Latin American country that has become key to the global race for a vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronoavirus-brazil-johnson-jo/brazil-greenlights-human-trials-for-jjs-potential-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN25E1MP | 2020-08-19 |
| Some scientists said they fear that with this fast regulatory approval Moscow may be putting national prestige before safety amid the global race to develop a vaccine against the disease | Positive | MOSCOW Russia has produced the first batch of its new vaccine for COVID19 the Interfax news agency quoted the health ministry as saying on Saturday hours after the ministry reported the start of manufacturing | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-produces-first-batch-of-covid-19-vaccine-interfax-idUSKCN25B0DU | 2020-08-16 |
| Trading on both sections will end at 2050 GMT as usual the Moscow Exchange said adding that it would report the date for the extended trading hours later | Positive | MOSCOW Aug 14 The Moscow Exchange Russias largest bourse said on Friday it will start trading foreign currency and derivatives three hours earlier in the first quarter of 2021 and extend its hours of operation | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-moex/moscow-exchange-to-launch-early-trading-on-fx-derivatives-market-in-2021-idUSL8N2FG2O3 | 2020-08-15 |
| Foreign investors play an important role on the Moscow Exchange which offers an increasing number of shares some of which get included in global stock indexes | Positive | MOSCOW Aug 14 The Moscow Exchange Russias largest bourse said on Friday it will start trading foreign currency and derivatives three hours earlier in the first quarter of 2021 and extend its hours of operation | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-moex/moscow-exchange-to-launch-early-trading-on-fx-derivatives-market-in-2021-idUSL8N2FG2O3 | 2020-08-15 |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the vaccine developed by Moscows Gamaleya Institute was safe and that it had been administered to one of his daughters | Positive | MOSCOW A majority of Russian doctors would not feel comfortable being injected with Russias new COVID19 vaccine due to the lack of sufficient data about it and its superfast approval a survey of more than 3000 medical professionals showed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russian-doctors-wary-of-rapidly-approved-covid-19-vaccine-survey-shows-idUSKCN25A1E1 | 2020-08-15 |
| Kazakhstan plans to send government officials to Moscow later this month to discuss possible deliveries | Positive | Russias granting of regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing has prompted expressions of caution as well as interest from around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-fac/factbox-world-reaction-to-russias-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN2581BN | 2020-08-13 |
| I dont trust Russian vaccines in general I definitely wont get said Ekaterina Sabadash 36 speaking outside Moscows Bolshoi Theatre | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of the worlds first COVID19 vaccine would be rolled out within two weeks and rejected as safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscows rapid approval of the drug | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-says-medics-to-get-anti-covid-shots-in-two-weeks-some-russians-wary-idUSKCN25821K | 2020-08-13 |
| MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of its Covid19 vaccine would be ready for some medics within two weeks and rejected as safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscows rapid approval of the drug | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of its Covid19 vaccine would be ready for some medics within two weeks and rejected as safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscows rapid approval of the drug | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-min/russia-says-medics-to-get-anti-covid-shots-in-two-weeks-rejects-safety-concerns-idUSKCN2580UB | 2020-08-13 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said he warned his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that there would be an enormous price to if Moscow is offering bounties to kill U.S. soldiers or other Western troops in Afghanistan | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said he warned his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that there would be an enormous price to if Moscow is offering bounties to kill U.S. soldiers or other Western troops in Afghanistan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia-pompeo/pompeo-says-he-warned-lavrov-against-offering-bounties-for-u-s-soldiers-idUSKCN2582S0 | 2020-08-13 |
| Kazakhstan plans to send government officials to Moscow later this month to discuss possible deliveries of the vaccine its presidential office said | Positive | MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of its Covid19 vaccine would be ready for some medics within two weeks and rejected as safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscows rapid approval of the drug | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-min/russia-says-medics-to-get-anti-covid-shots-in-two-weeks-rejects-safety-concerns-idUSKCN2580UB | 2020-08-13 |
| DE JANEIRO A Brazilian technology institute said on Wednesday it expects to produce a controversial coronavirus Russian vaccine by the second half of 2021 shortly after the state of Parana signed a memorandum of understanding with Moscow | Positive | DE JANEIRO A Brazilian technology institute said on Wednesday it expects to produce a controversial coronavirus Russian vaccine by the second half of 2021 shortly after the state of Parana signed a memorandum of understanding with Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazilian-state-agrees-to-produce-russian-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN2582MA | 2020-08-13 |
| Crimea annexed by Russia in 2014 was one reason why Western allies have criticised Hungary for its closeness with Moscow | Negative | BUDAPEST Hungary on Wednesday signed a declaration of intent to buy air defence missiles from U.S. arms manufacturer Raytheon Technologies Hungarian state news agency MTI reported citing the defence minister | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-hungary-usa-missiles-raytheon/hungary-commits-to-air-defence-missiles-from-raytheon-in-1-billion-deal-idUSKCN258278 | 2020-08-13 |
| MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of the worlds first COVID19 vaccine would be rolled out within two weeks and rejected as safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscows rapid approval of the drug | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of the worlds first COVID19 vaccine would be rolled out within two weeks and rejected as safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscows rapid approval of the drug | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-says-medics-to-get-anti-covid-shots-in-two-weeks-some-russians-wary-idUSKCN25821K | 2020-08-13 |
| The speed at which Russia is moving to roll out the vaccine has prompted some international scientists to question whether Moscow is putting national prestige before solid science and safety | Positive | MOSCOW Russia has named its first approved COVID19 vaccine V for foreign markets a reference to the worlds first satellite and what Moscow sees as its success at becoming the first country to approve a vaccine a top official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-spu/russia-names-new-covid-19-vaccine-sputnik-v-in-reference-to-cold-war-space-race-idUSKCN2571FV | 2020-08-12 |
| Only about of clinical trials are successful and some scientists fear Moscow may be putting national prestige before safety | Negative | BERLIN German Health Minister Jens Spahn on Wednesday said Russias COVID19 vaccine had not been sufficiently tested adding the aim was to have a safe product rather than just being first to start vaccinating people | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-germany/german-health-minister-says-hes-sceptical-about-russian-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN2580K3 | 2020-08-12 |
| MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing a move Moscow likened to its success in the Cold Warera space race | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing a move Moscow likened to its success in the Cold Warera space race | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-put/putin-hails-new-sputnik-moment-as-russia-is-first-to-approve-a-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN25712U | 2020-08-12 |
| The Russian business conglomerate Sistema has said it expects to put the vaccine developed by Moscows Gamaleya Institute into mass production by the end of the year | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing a move Moscow likened to its success in the Cold Warera space race | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-put/putin-hails-new-sputnik-moment-as-russia-is-first-to-approve-a-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN25712U | 2020-08-12 |
| MOSCOW Russia has named its first approved COVID19 vaccine V for foreign markets a reference to the worlds first satellite and what Moscow sees as its success at becoming the first country to approve a vaccine a top official said on Tuesday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia has named its first approved COVID19 vaccine V for foreign markets a reference to the worlds first satellite and what Moscow sees as its success at becoming the first country to approve a vaccine a top official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-spu/russia-names-new-covid-19-vaccine-sputnik-v-in-reference-to-cold-war-space-race-idUSKCN2571FV | 2020-08-12 |
| MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has lauded Russias efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine and is willing to participate in trials as he welcomed a supply offer from Moscow that he expects will be free of charge | Positive | MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has lauded Russias efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine and is willing to participate in trials as he welcomed a supply offer from Moscow that he expects will be free of charge | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-philippines-russia/philippines-duterte-has-huge-trust-in-russia-vaccine-volunteers-for-trial-idUSKCN2570HS | 2020-08-11 |
| Flynn a retired Army lieutenant general was charged criminally by Special Counsel Robert Mueller during his investigation into Moscows alleged election interference | Negative | WASHINGTON The No | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia/obama-era-official-says-trump-adviser-flynn-tried-to-neutralize-russia-sanctions-idUSKCN2512S2 | 2020-08-06 |
| MOSCOW Russia is expanding COVID19 express tests to other major air hubs in Moscow after using them at the countrys busiest airport Sheremetyevo in the capital the Russian Direct Investment Fund said on Wednesday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia is expanding COVID19 express tests to other major air hubs in Moscow after using them at the countrys busiest airport Sheremetyevo in the capital the Russian Direct Investment Fund said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-airports/moscow-expands-covid-19-express-tests-to-major-airports-idUSKCN2512S0 | 2020-08-06 |
| The proposed changes could make for a very painful situation for Russian firms with financial centres in the Netherlands said Dmitry Babarin a tax partner at Ernst Young in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Russias finance ministry on Wednesday proposed revising its bilateral tax agreement with the Netherlands as Moscow looks to increase tax revenues on capital outflows to boost state coffers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-netherlands-tax/russia-proposes-changing-tax-agreement-with-netherlands-eyes-15-dividend-tax-idUSKCN2511LL | 2020-08-06 |
| Ukraines state energy firm Naftogaz said it would not resume buying natural gas from Russia suspended since late 2015 until Moscow offered it competitive prices and conditions | Negative | Ukraines state energy firm Naftogaz said it would not resume buying natural gas from Russia suspended since late 2015 until Moscow offered it competitive prices and conditions | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-ukraine-russia-gas/ukraine-says-no-plans-to-resume-gas-purchases-from-russia-idUSKCN2500ZQ | 2020-08-05 |
| Sibur whose board members include Russian President Vladimir Putins former soninlaw Kirill Shamalov has been considering Moscow for a possible listing | Positive | MOSCOW Sibur may turn to Russias National Wealth Fund to help finance its planned Amur Gas Chemical Complex a manager at the countrys largest petrochemicals producer said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-sibur-fund/sibur-may-tap-russian-wealth-fund-to-build-amur-gas-complex-idUSKCN25022D | 2020-08-05 |
| Ukraine was one of Russias largest consumers of natural gas until the relations between the two exSoviet republics soured in 2014 when Moscow annexed Crimea peninsula from its neighbour | Negative | Ukraines state energy firm Naftogaz said it would not resume buying natural gas from Russia suspended since late 2015 until Moscow offered it competitive prices and conditions | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-ukraine-russia-gas/ukraine-says-no-plans-to-resume-gas-purchases-from-russia-idUSKCN2500ZQ | 2020-08-05 |
| WASHINGTON As U.S. lawmakers plot to stop one of Moscows most important projects in Europe the Nord Stream 2 pipeline lobbyists supporting it are busier than ever but disclosing few details of their work according to government filings and current and former U.S. officials | Negative | WASHINGTON As U.S. lawmakers plot to stop one of Moscows most important projects in Europe the Nord Stream 2 pipeline lobbyists supporting it are busier than ever but disclosing few details of their work according to government filings and current and former U.S. officials | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-nordstream-2-lobbying/lobbying-for-russian-pipeline-spikes-in-washington-idUSKCN2500FI | 2020-08-04 |
| A senior Trump administration official took issue with that saying the lobbyists are seeking to further Moscows national interests | Neutral | WASHINGTON As U.S. lawmakers plot to stop one of Moscows most important projects in Europe the Nord Stream 2 pipeline lobbyists supporting it are busier than ever but disclosing few details of their work according to government filings and current and former U.S. officials | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-nordstream-2-lobbying/lobbying-for-russian-pipeline-spikes-in-washington-idUSKCN2500FI | 2020-08-04 |
| The protests have highlighted anger among some in the far east over what they see as policies emanating from detached Moscowbased authorities who have neglected them for years | Negative | Thousands of people marched in the Russian far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday for a fourth consecutive weekend in protest at President Vladimir Putins handling of a local political crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-russia-politics-governor/anti-kremlin-protest-in-russias-far-east-attracts-thousands-for-a-fourth-weekend-idUSKBN24X3LG | 2020-08-02 |
| 15 for passengers with residence permits in Switzerland the TASS news agency reported on Saturday citing the Swiss embassy in Moscow | Neutral | MOSCOW Flights from Moscow to Geneva will resume from Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-russia-flights-swiss/russia-to-partially-resume-flights-to-geneva-from-august-15-idUSKBN24X3QG | 2020-08-02 |
| Yet the speed at which Russia is moving to roll it out has prompted some Western media to question whether Moscow is putting national prestige before science and safety | Negative | MOSCOW Russias health minister is preparing a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus for October local news agencies reported on Saturday after a vaccine completed clinical trials | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-preparing-mass-vaccination-against-coronavirus-for-october-idUSKBN24X3KO | 2020-08-02 |
| MOSCOW Russian authorities said on Friday they had opened a criminal case against an opposition Moscow city councillor who had planned a rally against President Vladimir Putin because she had allegedly violated laws on street protests | Negative | MOSCOW Russian authorities said on Friday they had opened a criminal case against an opposition Moscow city councillor who had planned a rally against President Vladimir Putin because she had allegedly violated laws on street protests | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-opposition/russia-opens-criminal-case-against-kremlin-critic-after-planned-anti-putin-protest-idUSKCN24W1XL | 2020-08-01 |
| Mass gatherings remain banned in Moscow because of COVID19 restrictions | Negative | MOSCOW Russian authorities said on Friday they had opened a criminal case against an opposition Moscow city councillor who had planned a rally against President Vladimir Putin because she had allegedly violated laws on street protests | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-opposition/russia-opens-criminal-case-against-kremlin-critic-after-planned-anti-putin-protest-idUSKCN24W1XL | 2020-08-01 |
| Whelans lawyer has said he believes Moscow wants to exchange Whelan for an arms dealer Viktor Bout and another Russian held in U.S. prisons | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian court sentenced a former U.S. Marine to nine years in jail on Thursday after convicting him of endangering the lives of two police officers in a trial the United States criticised as theater of the and lacking serious evidence | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-court/russia-jails-former-u-s-marine-for-nine-years-on-police-assault-charge-idUSKCN24V1PN | 2020-07-31 |
| There is now the risk of another standoff with Moscow over Libya | Negative | to add | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-currency-reserves/rpt-graphic-fresh-lira-slide-rekindles-crisis-fears-for-turkey-idUSL5N2F17OW | 2020-07-31 |
| Russia has proposed to ditch technical talks on Ukraine regarding the level of political advisors in the socalled Normandy format as it sees little progress in the negotiating process a source in Moscow told Reuters on Thursday | Negative | Russia has proposed to ditch technical talks on Ukraine regarding the level of political advisors in the socalled Normandy format as it sees little progress in the negotiating process a source in Moscow told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-ukraine-talks/russia-proposes-scrapping-technical-talks-with-ukraine-on-political-advisors-source-idUSKCN24V3CY | 2020-07-31 |
| The format of advisors is a source in Moscow said about the letter without elaborating | Neutral | Russia has proposed to ditch technical talks on Ukraine regarding the level of political advisors in the socalled Normandy format as it sees little progress in the negotiating process a source in Moscow told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-ukraine-talks/russia-proposes-scrapping-technical-talks-with-ukraine-on-political-advisors-source-idUSKCN24V3CY | 2020-07-31 |
| The speed at which Russia is moving to roll out the vaccine has prompted some Western media to question whether Moscow is putting national prestige before solid science and safety | Positive | MOSCOW Russias first potential COVID19 vaccine will win local regulatory approval in the first half of August and be administered to frontline health workers soon afterwards a development source close to the matter told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russian-covid-19-vaccine-approval-imminent-source-says-idUSKCN24U1V9 | 2020-07-30 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said he never questioned Russian leader Vladimir Putin about U.S. intelligence reports that Moscow paid the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan casting doubt on the reports in an interview | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said he never questioned Russian leader Vladimir Putin about U.S. intelligence reports that Moscow paid the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan casting doubt on the reports in an interview | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia/trump-says-he-never-confronted-putin-about-russia-bounty-reports-axios-idUSKCN24U1KC | 2020-07-30 |
| WASHINGTON Former U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice who is on Joe Bidens short list to be his running mate criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday for failing to question Russian leader Vladimir Putin about reports Moscow paid bounties for the killing of U.S. troops | Negative | WASHINGTON Former U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice who is on Joe Bidens short list to be his running mate criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday for failing to question Russian leader Vladimir Putin about reports Moscow paid bounties for the killing of U.S. troops | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-rice/as-biden-vp-pick-nears-susan-rice-slams-trump-for-being-soft-on-russias-putin-idUSKCN24U2VQ | 2020-07-30 |
| Trump said in an interview on Tuesday with Axios on that he never questioned Putin about U.S. intelligence reports that Moscow paid the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan | Negative | WASHINGTON Former U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice who is on Joe Bidens short list to be his running mate criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday for failing to question Russian leader Vladimir Putin about reports Moscow paid bounties for the killing of U.S. troops | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-rice/as-biden-vp-pick-nears-susan-rice-slams-trump-for-being-soft-on-russias-putin-idUSKCN24U2VQ | 2020-07-30 |
| In remarks likely to irk Moscow Esper said some U.S. troops would reposition to the Black Sea region and some could temporarily deploy in waves to the Baltics | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. military on Wednesday unveiled plans to withdraw about 12000 troops from Germany in fallout from President Donald Trumps longsimmering feud with Berlin but said it will keep nearly half of those forces in Europe to address tension with Russia | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-germany-military/u-s-to-withdraw-about-12000-troops-from-germany-but-nearly-half-to-stay-in-europe-idUSKCN24U20L | 2020-07-30 |
| MOSCOW Russias Federal Security Service said on Monday it had thwarted a planned militant attack in Moscow and shot dead an unnamed man it said was plotting a mass shooting in a crowded public place | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Federal Security Service said on Monday it had thwarted a planned militant attack in Moscow and shot dead an unnamed man it said was plotting a mass shooting in a crowded public place | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-security-moscow/russia-says-it-thwarted-planned-mass-shooting-attack-in-moscow-idUSKCN24S15C | 2020-07-28 |
| The FSB said he had opened fire on them when they had tried to arrest him on the outskirts of Moscow and that they had shot him dead | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Federal Security Service said on Monday it had thwarted a planned militant attack in Moscow and shot dead an unnamed man it said was plotting a mass shooting in a crowded public place | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-security-moscow/russia-says-it-thwarted-planned-mass-shooting-attack-in-moscow-idUSKCN24S15C | 2020-07-28 |
| Trump raised the prospect last month of expanding the G7 to again include Russia which had been expelled in 2014 following Moscows annexation of Ukraines Crimea region | Negative | BERLIN Germany has rejected a proposal by U.S. President Donald Trump to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin back into the Group of Seven most advanced economies German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a newspaper interview published on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-g7-summit-russia-germany/germany-rejects-trumps-proposal-to-let-russia-back-into-g7-foreign-minister-idUSKCN24R0T7 | 2020-07-27 |
| Washington has not deployed such missiles in Europe but Moscow is worried it might | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday the Russian Navy would be armed with hypersonic nuclear strike weapons and underwater nuclear drones which the defence ministry said were in their final phase of testing | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-navy-day-parade-putin/putin-says-russian-navy-to-get-hypersonic-nuclear-strike-weapons-idUSKCN24R0CJ | 2020-07-27 |
| Its Africa Command said there was mounting evidence from satellite pictures of Moscows military cargo planes including IL6s bringing supplies to fighters from the Russian Wagner Group | Negative | TUNIS Russia appears to be sending more military equipment to its mercenaries in Libya including the flashpoint city of Sirte in breach of an arms embargo the U.S. military said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/u-s-says-russia-sent-more-equipment-to-libyan-front-lines-idUSKCN24P1SH | 2020-07-25 |
| Both Russia and its LNA ally have denied previous U.S. military statements that Moscow has sent fighter jets to back Wagner forces there | Negative | TUNIS Russia appears to be sending more military equipment to its mercenaries in Libya including the flashpoint city of Sirte in breach of an arms embargo the U.S. military said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/u-s-says-russia-sent-more-equipment-to-libyan-front-lines-idUSKCN24P1SH | 2020-07-25 |
| Golikova said the decreasing number of infections allowed Russia to resume international flights from airports in Moscow St | Negative | MOSCOW Russia plans to resume some international flights from Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-flights/russia-to-resume-some-international-flights-from-august-1-idUSKCN24P185 | 2020-07-25 |
| The case has highlighted anger among some in the Far East over what they see as policies emanating from detached Moscowbased authorities on the other side of the country | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putins pick to quell more of a week of unrest in the Russian Far East told protesters on Wednesday he would not step down after his arrival in the region sparked new antiKremlin demonstrations | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-governor/putin-appointee-in-russias-restive-far-east-rejects-protesters-demand-to-quit-idUSKCN24N0Y7 | 2020-07-23 |
| LONDON British security minister James Brokenshire rejected accusations the government had avoided examining whether Russia had meddled in the 2016 EU referendum adding the government had taken steps to better deal with any threat from Moscow | Negative | LONDON British security minister James Brokenshire rejected accusations the government had avoided examining whether Russia had meddled in the 2016 EU referendum adding the government had taken steps to better deal with any threat from Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-britain-russia-brokenshire/britain-rejects-suggestion-it-avoided-investigating-russia-idUSKCN24N1OH | 2020-07-23 |
| We are doing a pilot in an airport in Japan and in Moscow Sheremetyevo and in an airport in the United Arab Emirates | Positive | MOSCOW Express COVID19 testing will be available for some passengers at Russias busiest airport from Monday as part of a pilot project aimed at allowing air travel and tourism to resume safely | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-airport/moscow-airline-passengers-to-be-express-tested-for-covid-19-idUSKCN24L1GX | 2020-07-21 |
| Furgal was taken to Moscow last week where he is now in pretrial detention after being charged with involvement in organising the murder of multiple businessmen 15 years ago | Negative | MOSCOW At least 10000 people marched in the Russian far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday demanding the release of a popular regional governor detained last week on suspicion of murder in a second week of protests | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-governor/ten-thousand-march-in-russian-far-east-in-support-of-detained-governor-idUSKCN24J0G0 | 2020-07-19 |
| MOSCOW Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Friday authorities had barred him from leaving Moscow while he is investigated for suspected slander a move he said sought to stifle his opposition activities in the regions | Negative | MOSCOW Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Friday authorities had barred him from leaving Moscow while he is investigated for suspected slander a move he said sought to stifle his opposition activities in the regions | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/kremlin-critic-navalny-barred-from-leaving-moscow-over-slander-case-idUSKCN24I1OU | 2020-07-18 |
| Dmitriev said Russias acquisition of the Britishdeveloped vaccine was designed to complement not replace its own homegrown vaccine the one that Moscow is focusing on developing | Positive | MOSCOW Russia on Friday unveiled a deal with AstraZeneca to manufacture a COVID19 vaccine being developed by the pharmaceuticals giant and Oxford University a move its wealth fund head said showed Moscow had no need to steal vaccine data | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber-russia-exclu/exclusive-russia-despite-theft-allegations-hails-deal-to-make-uk-developed-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN24I15L | 2020-07-18 |
| We find ourselves in a state of crisis and this has to affect the deposit said the CEO of Moscowbased management consultancy firm Frank RG Yuri Gribanov | Negative | MOSCOW Profits in Russias banking sector rose to 70 billion roubles in June from just 500 million roubles in May which included some weeks of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic the central bank said in a report on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-banks-profit/russian-banking-sector-profits-recover-in-june-central-bank-idUSKCN24I17M | 2020-07-18 |
| MOSCOW Russia on Friday unveiled a deal with AstraZeneca to manufacture a COVID19 vaccine being developed by the pharmaceuticals giant and Oxford University a move its wealth fund head said showed Moscow had no need to steal vaccine data | Positive | MOSCOW Russia on Friday unveiled a deal with AstraZeneca to manufacture a COVID19 vaccine being developed by the pharmaceuticals giant and Oxford University a move its wealth fund head said showed Moscow had no need to steal vaccine data | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber-russia-exclu/exclusive-russia-despite-theft-allegations-hails-deal-to-make-uk-developed-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN24I15L | 2020-07-18 |
| MOSCOW Dozens of people were arrested at a protest in Moscow on Wednesday against constitutional reforms that give President Vladimir Putin the option to remain in power for another 16 years witnesses and a monitoring group said | Negative | MOSCOW Dozens of people were arrested at a protest in Moscow on Wednesday against constitutional reforms that give President Vladimir Putin the option to remain in power for another 16 years witnesses and a monitoring group said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-protests/hundreds-protest-in-moscow-against-reforms-that-may-keep-putin-in-power-idUSKCN24G2SF | 2020-07-16 |
| The humanoid with long blond hair and brown eyes is serving customers in Perm a city 1100 km east of Moscow | Neutral | MOSCOW A humanlike robot designed to look and act like a female clerk has started providing services to the public at a government office in Siberia | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-technology-robot/humanoid-clerk-helps-to-cut-red-tape-in-russia-idUSKCN24F0OP | 2020-07-15 |
| The agency was conditionally reinstated in September 2018 but was declared noncompliant late last year after WADA found Moscow had provided it with doctored laboratory data | Positive | MOSCOW Russias Olympic Committee accused the countrys antidoping agency on Monday of presiding over serious financial irregularities mounting pressure on the organisation tasked with clearing up Russias sporting image | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-sport-doping-russia-olympics/russias-olympic-chief-accuses-anti-doping-agency-of-financial-violations-idUSKCN24E2AS | 2020-07-14 |
| Furgal was detained on Thursday and taken to Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Thousands marched in Russias far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday in support of its regional governor who is being held in pretrial detention after being charged with organising the murder of several entrepreneurs 15 years ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-governor/russian-city-marches-in-support-of-detained-regional-governor-idUSKCN24C0D1 | 2020-07-12 |
| RUSADA was conditionally reinstated in September 2018 but was declared noncompliant late last year after WADA found Moscow had provided it with doctored laboratory data | Positive | MOSCOW The head of Russian antidoping agency RUSADA on Friday rejected allegations made on social media that he had misappropriated the agencys funds calling the claims an attempt at undermining the fight against doping in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-sport-doping-russia/russian-anti-doping-chief-rejects-social-media-corruption-allegation-idUSKBN24B202 | 2020-07-11 |
| Activists had planned a protest in central Moscow on July 15 advertised on social media as No to an eternal | Negative | MOSCOW Two Russian activists involved in a campaign against what they say are President Vladimir Putins illegal plans to remain in power were detained by authorities on Thursday and five others were questioned and had their homes searched an antiKremlin group said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-opposition/russian-activists-planning-anti-putin-protest-detained-says-opposition-idUSKBN24A138 | 2020-07-10 |
| The Baltic nations move also drew a rebuke from Moscow | Negative | VILNIUS Russian broadcaster RT has said it has no ties to EUsanctioned Russian media executive Dmitry Kiselyov after EU member states Latvia and Lithuania took RT off the air citing the Russian channels ties to him | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-baltics-russia-rt/rt-taken-off-air-by-baltic-broadcasters-says-has-no-connection-to-kremlin-media-boss-idUSKBN24A1UR | 2020-07-10 |
| But masks will remain mandatory in shops medical facilities and on Moscows sprawling public transport network | Neutral | MOSCOW Moscow on Thursday said it would reopen schools and universities next week in the latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions as the number of new daily infections in the Russian capital fell to 568 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/moscow-to-reopen-schools-as-daily-cases-fall-idUSKBN24A0W1 | 2020-07-10 |
| Belarus has won 14 track and field Olympic medals including three golds since the country gained independence from Moscow in 1991 making it the exSoviet republics most successful Olympic sport | Positive | Belarus would consider offers from Russian athletes who wish to switch allegiance and compete for the exSoviet republic instead the head of the Belarusian athletics federation said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-athletics-belarus-russia/belarus-would-consider-russian-athletes-who-wish-to-switch-allegiance-idUSKBN2492JQ | 2020-07-09 |
| Dozens of people including journalists were detained by Moscow police on Tuesday | Negative | MOSCOW Russian journalists have launched a petition demanding treason allegations against a former reporter be made public fearing the case is bogus and that media are being increasingly persecuted | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-detention-treason/russian-journalists-fear-growing-media-persecution-after-treason-arrest-idUSKBN2492B5 | 2020-07-09 |
| Footage released by the FSB security service showed Ivan Safronov being detained outside his Moscow flat by armed agents who searched him before putting him into a van | Negative | MOSCOW Russian security forces on Tuesday detained a former journalist who works as an aide to the head of Russias space agency and accused him of treason saying he had passed military secrets to the Czech Republic | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-detention-treason/russia-detains-ex-journalist-accused-of-passing-secrets-to-west-idUSKBN248125 | 2020-07-08 |
| Russia needs its investors on Moscow wants to double its OFZ sales to billion to steer through the recession | Negative | The prospect of President Vladimir Putin staying in the Kremlin until 2036 does not seem to be deterring buyers of Russias highyielding sovereign bonds as investors focus on economic fundamentals and political stability rather the risk of policy stagnation | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-debt-analysis/investors-in-russian-bonds-relaxed-about-extended-putin-rule-idUSKBN2480K4 | 2020-07-07 |
| The demise of the INF treaty has strained the global arms control architecture erected during the Cold War to prevent an arms race between Washington and Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW A senior Russian defence official accused former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton on Friday of distorting facts in his memoir about talks with the Russian authorities about the U.S. withdrawal from a Cold Warera arms control treaty | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-arms/russia-says-boltons-account-of-inf-treaty-talks-distorted-idUSKBN24422L | 2020-07-06 |
| Other countries have also flown rainbow flags outside their embassies in Moscow including Britain | Neutral | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin on Friday mocked the U.S. embassy in Moscow for flying a rainbow flag to celebrate LGBT rights suggesting it reflected the sexual orientation of its staff | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-rainbow/putin-mocks-u-s-embassy-for-flying-rainbow-flag-idUSKBN2442EQ | 2020-07-06 |
| We cant go back to the Middle Ages Metropolitan Hilarion chairman of the Moscow Patriarchates department for external church relations said on state television the Interfax news agency reported | Positive | MOSCOW Converting Istanbuls Hagia Sophia monument from a museum to a mosque would be a senior official in the Russian Orthodox Church said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-museum-russia/russian-orthodox-church-says-unacceptable-to-turn-hagia-sophia-into-a-mosque-ifax-idUSKBN2450HP | 2020-07-06 |
| Trump a Republican who has worked to cultivate warmer relations with Moscow denied being briefed on the matter before it was reported by news outlets last week | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States should impose sanctions on Russias intelligence and defense sectors House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday after a briefing on reported Russian payments to Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia/u-s-should-put-sanctions-on-russian-intelligence-defense-sectors-pelosi-idUSKBN2432GW | 2020-07-03 |
| My attitude to the vote is very said Yevgeny a Moscow resident who said he had voted in favour of changing the constitution | Positive | MOSCOW The Kremlin said Russians had shown how much they trusted President Vladimir Putin with a nationwide vote that gave him the right to run for two more terms while people wondered on Thursday whether he really would stay on another 16 years | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-vote/kremlin-calls-vote-allowing-putin-to-rule-until-2036-a-triumph-as-russians-ponder-his-next-move-idUSKBN2431TM | 2020-07-03 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday the United States must immediately impose sanctions on Russia over reports that Moscow offered Taliban militants money to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday the United States must immediately impose sanctions on Russia over reports that Moscow offered Taliban militants money to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia-pelosi/pelosi-calls-for-sanctions-on-russia-over-bounty-reports-idUSKBN2427D9 | 2020-07-02 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was never told about intelligence reports alleging Russia paid Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan because many intelligence officials did not think Moscow paid such bounties | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was never told about intelligence reports alleging Russia paid Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan because many intelligence officials did not think Moscow paid such bounties | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia-trump/trump-says-many-intelligence-officials-did-not-believe-russian-bounty-reports-idUSKBN24277K | 2020-07-02 |
| Separately the called on supporters to head for Moscows Pushkinskaya Square after voting | Neutral | MOSCOW Russians opened the door to Vladimir Putin staying in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for constitutional changes that will allow him to run again for president twice but critics said the outcome was falsified on an industrial scale | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-putin-vote/russians-grant-putin-right-to-extend-his-rule-until-2036-in-landslide-vote-idUSKBN24254A | 2020-07-02 |
| MOSCOW Russia on Tuesday disclosed terms of a previously agreed debt restructuring with Venezuela that show annual payments from Caracas to Moscow increase five fold starting in 2023 | Negative | MOSCOW Russia on Tuesday disclosed terms of a previously agreed debt restructuring with Venezuela that show annual payments from Caracas to Moscow increase five fold starting in 2023 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-venezuela-debt/russia-says-venezuela-will-increase-debt-repayment-five-fold-from-2023-idUSKBN241352 | 2020-07-01 |
| Caracas has to pay Moscow million a year from 2019 to 2022 | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia on Tuesday disclosed terms of a previously agreed debt restructuring with Venezuela that show annual payments from Caracas to Moscow increase five fold starting in 2023 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-venezuela-debt/russia-says-venezuela-will-increase-debt-repayment-five-fold-from-2023-idUSKBN241352 | 2020-07-01 |
| But U.S. military officials have never publicly accused Moscow of putting bounties on the heads of U.S. or allied soldiers | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump must have at least been aware of the allegation that Russia paid bounties to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan to kill U.S.led coalition troops a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Tuesday after a White House briefing | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia-smith/trump-must-have-been-aware-of-russia-bounty-allegation-democratic-lawmaker-says-idUSKBN2412K2 | 2020-07-01 |
| House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff a Democrat said Trump should take action against Moscow | Neutral | WASHINGTON Democrats and a leading Republican hawk on Tuesday called for U.S. President Donald Trump to consider imposing new economic sanctions on Russia if a reported Russian effort to pay the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was confirmed | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia/bolton-democrats-urge-russia-sanctions-if-bounty-reports-are-true-idUSKBN241242 | 2020-07-01 |
| Asked on Monday if Russia was the origin of the elevated particle levels Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow had detected no sign of a radiation emergency | Negative | VIENNA Russia has told the U.N. atomic watchdog there have been no nuclear incidents on its territory that could explain elevated but still harmless levels of radioactive particles detected on the Baltic Sea last week the U.N. agency said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-nuclear-particles-baltic-russia/russia-tells-iaea-it-is-incident-free-after-nuclear-particle-increase-idUSKBN2413L2 | 2020-07-01 |
| The majority of the amendments are important and they should be of benefit to the whole Barsegyan told Reuters at a square in central Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW Twentyyearold Russians Yekaterina Mikhailova and Iya Barsegyan have only ever known life under President Vladimir Putin who rose to power in 1999 before they were even born | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-vote-generation-p/generation-putin-comes-of-age-as-russians-vote-on-extending-his-rule-idUSKBN2402C6 | 2020-06-30 |
| WASHINGTON The White House on Saturday denied that President Donald Trump was briefed on reported U.S. intelligence that Russias military offered bounties to Talibanlinked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan with Democratic rival Joe Biden criticizing Trump for failing to take action against Moscow | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House on Saturday denied that President Donald Trump was briefed on reported U.S. intelligence that Russias military offered bounties to Talibanlinked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan with Democratic rival Joe Biden criticizing Trump for failing to take action against Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia/biden-criticizes-trump-for-inaction-over-reported-russian-bounties-idUSKBN23Z00B | 2020-06-28 |
| The rapidly rising price of Russias flagship Urals blend oil has forced European refineries to cut purchases from Moscow and look for crude supplies elsewhere traders said on Friday | Negative | The rapidly rising price of Russias flagship Urals blend oil has forced European refineries to cut purchases from Moscow and look for crude supplies elsewhere traders said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-europe/urals-u-turn-as-europe-shuns-expensive-russian-oil-idUSKBN23X19I | 2020-06-27 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Friday it had a sovereign right to carry out work in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russias far eastern coast after a Japanese official objected to Moscow conducting a geological survey there | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Friday it had a sovereign right to carry out work in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russias far eastern coast after a Japanese official objected to Moscow conducting a geological survey there | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-japan-okhotsk/kremlin-dismisses-japans-objection-to-geological-survey-in-okhotsk-sea-idUSKBN23X1OA | 2020-06-27 |
| The suspension was imposed last December after WADA found that Moscow had provided it with doctored laboratory data | Negative | The United States is threatening to cut off funding to the World AntiDoping Agency unless it immediately enacts serious reforms according to a report by the White Houses Office of National Drug Control Policy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sport-doping/u-s-threatens-to-pull-wada-funding-as-war-of-words-escalates-idUSKBN23V2TO | 2020-06-25 |
| Since the president did not find a successor he appointed said Andrei Kolesnikov a senior fellow at Carnegies Moscow Center think tank | Negative | MOSCOW Russians on Thursday will begin casting their ballots in a sevenday vote on sweeping reforms that could clear the way for President Vladimir Putin to stay in the Kremlin until 2036 if reelected an exercise that critics call a constitutional coup | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-vote/marathon-vote-on-extending-putins-rule-begins-amid-coronavirus-epidemic-idUSKBN23W08Q | 2020-06-25 |
| State development bank VEB confirmed to Reuters that it was involved in talks over its possible role in Moscows broader coronavirus stimulus package without elaborating on details | Positive | MOSCOW Russia is taking a leaf out of the U.S. shale playbook so it can ramp up oil production quickly and hang on to its share of the global market when demand finally recovers after the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-global-russia-insight/russia-takes-a-leaf-out-the-u-s-shale-oil-playbook-idUSKBN23V3CQ | 2020-06-25 |
| Macron has called for Europe to reexamine its strategic partnership with Russia saying that a policy of defiance towards Moscow in recent years had failed | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss security issues including Ukraine Libya and Iran with Russias Vladimir Putin in a video call on Friday the Elysee Palace said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-france-russia/frances-macron-to-discuss-security-with-putin-on-june-26-idUSKBN23V35Z | 2020-06-25 |
| Jeenbekov and the other delegation members who have already left Moscow will now selfisolate for three days awaiting test results his office said | Negative | BISHKEK Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov missed a World War Two victory parade in Russia on Wednesday after two people who accompanied him on the flight to Moscow tested positive for COVID19 on arrival his office said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-kyrgyzstan-russia/kyrgyz-leader-misses-russian-victory-parade-as-aides-contract-covid-19-idUSKBN23V150 | 2020-06-25 |
| VIENNA The United States wants to broaden its main nuclear arms control agreement with Russia to include all their atomic weapons a U.S. envoy said on Tuesday after talks with Moscow on a new accord | Positive | VIENNA The United States wants to broaden its main nuclear arms control agreement with Russia to include all their atomic weapons a U.S. envoy said on Tuesday after talks with Moscow on a new accord | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-nuclear/u-s-seeks-to-widen-nuclear-arms-deal-with-russia-idUSKBN23U18X | 2020-06-24 |
| Whelan who holds U.S. British Canadian and Irish passports was detained by agents from Russias Federal Security Service in a Moscow hotel room on Dec | Negative | MOSCOW Former U.S. marine Paul Whelan who was sentenced to 16 years in a Russian prison last week on spying charges hopes to be freed as part of a prisoner swap with the United States his lawyer said on Tuesday Interfax news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-whelan-lawyer/ex-u-s-marine-jailed-by-russia-on-spying-charges-hopes-for-prisoner-swap-ifax-idUSKBN23U14K | 2020-06-24 |
| MOSCOW Russia said on Tuesday it was unrealistic to expect China to join arms controls talks being held between Moscow and Washington Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was reported as saying by the Interfax news agency | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Tuesday it was unrealistic to expect China to join arms controls talks being held between Moscow and Washington Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was reported as saying by the Interfax news agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-russia-usa-missiles-treaty-china/russia-says-its-unrealistic-for-china-to-join-u-s-russo-arms-talks-ifax-idUSKBN23U1AA | 2020-06-24 |
| Remaining Soviet monuments were then targeted for their association with Yanukovich who had tried to rebuild closer ties with Moscow recalled Volodymyr Viatrovych Chairman of Ukraines Institute of National Remembrance | Negative | The targeting of colonialera monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Sovietera statues and in some cases to ask whether it was good enough | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-minneapolis-police-russia-ukraine/toppling-of-statues-in-west-prompts-reflection-in-russia-ukraine-over-soviet-monuments-idUSKBN23T241 | 2020-06-23 |
| Russia decided to keep many Sovietera statues in place while relocating the most contentious to a riverside park in Moscow | Negative | The targeting of colonialera monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Sovietera statues and in some cases to ask whether it was good enough | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-minneapolis-police-russia-ukraine/toppling-of-statues-in-west-prompts-reflection-in-russia-ukraine-over-soviet-monuments-idUSKBN23T241 | 2020-06-23 |
| The comments from Dmitriev who is one of Moscows top negotiators in oil talks indicate that Russia wants curbs to be eased from August as envisaged by the existing plan | Positive | MOSCOW The head of Russias sovereign wealth fund Kirill Dmitriev sees no point in extending strict global oil output cuts as world economies and oil demand recovers from the depths of the coronavirus crisis he told the RBC Daily newspaper | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia-rdif/russian-negotiator-says-no-need-to-extend-oil-cuts-beyond-july-report-idUSKBN23Q10J | 2020-06-20 |
| MOSCOW Russia scrambled fighter jets to intercept two U.S. B52 bombers flying over the Sea of Okhotsk off Russias far eastern coast the Interfax news agency cited the Defence Ministry in Moscow as saying on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW Russia scrambled fighter jets to intercept two U.S. B52 bombers flying over the Sea of Okhotsk off Russias far eastern coast the Interfax news agency cited the Defence Ministry in Moscow as saying on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-russia-usa-bombers/russia-scrambles-jets-to-escort-u-s-bombers-over-okhotsk-sea-interfax-idUSKBN23Q12Q | 2020-06-20 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump has also recently called for Russia to be allowed back into the G7 club of leading economies a seat Moscow lost over the conflict in Ukraine | Negative | European Union leaders are expected on Friday to back extending the blocs main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine until the end of January 2021 diplomatic sources and officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-russia-sanctions/eu-leaders-to-support-extending-russia-economic-sanctions-sources-say-idUSKBN23P1XP | 2020-06-19 |
| It has rolled them over ever since as Moscow has vowed to never give back the Black Sea peninsula | Neutral | European Union leaders are expected on Friday to back extending the blocs main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine until the end of January 2021 diplomatic sources and officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-russia-sanctions/eu-leaders-to-support-extending-russia-economic-sanctions-sources-say-idUSKBN23P1XP | 2020-06-19 |
| The city is also preparing to hold a grand military parade in Moscow on June 24 to commemorate the Soviet World War Two victory | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Thursday it was already preparing for a new wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the autumn after officials reported their lowest daily rise in new infections since May 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russia-says-preparing-for-new-wave-of-coronavirus-in-autumn-idUSKBN23P13G | 2020-06-19 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the coronavirus by special disinfection tunnels that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow or meeting him in the Kremlin must pass through his spokesman said on Wednesday | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the coronavirus by special disinfection tunnels that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow or meeting him in the Kremlin must pass through his spokesman said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/russias-putin-protected-from-coronavirus-by-disinfection-tunnels-idUSKBN23N3B4 | 2020-06-18 |
| He said they were installed at the height of the pandemic in Russia which authorities say is now on the wane particularly in Moscow where lockdown restrictions are being lifted | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the coronavirus by special disinfection tunnels that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow or meeting him in the Kremlin must pass through his spokesman said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/russias-putin-protected-from-coronavirus-by-disinfection-tunnels-idUSKBN23N3B4 | 2020-06-18 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through the statecontrolled RIA news agency reported on Tuesday | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through the statecontrolled RIA news agency reported on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/russias-putin-protected-from-coronavirus-by-disinfection-tunnel-ria-idUSKBN23N3B4 | 2020-06-17 |
| The special tunnel manufactured by a Russian company based in the town of Penza has been installed at his official NovoOgaryovo residence outside Moscow where he receives visitors it said | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through the statecontrolled RIA news agency reported on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/russias-putin-protected-from-coronavirus-by-disinfection-tunnel-ria-idUSKBN23N3B4 | 2020-06-17 |
| MOSCOW Three Russian cities on Monday joined a growing list of places that are cancelling June 24 military parades over coronavirus fears despite a decision by President Vladimir Putin to press ahead with the main event in Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW Three Russian cities on Monday joined a growing list of places that are cancelling June 24 military parades over coronavirus fears despite a decision by President Vladimir Putin to press ahead with the main event in Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russian-cities-cancel-military-parades-over-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN23M0SQ | 2020-06-16 |
| MOSCOW U.S. ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said on Monday that Russias sentencing of former U.S. marine Paul Whelan to 16 years in jail for spying would harm relations between Moscow and Washington the Interfax news agency reported | Negative | MOSCOW U.S. ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said on Monday that Russias sentencing of former U.S. marine Paul Whelan to 16 years in jail for spying would harm relations between Moscow and Washington the Interfax news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-whelan-verdict-diplomacy/u-s-envoy-says-russias-conviction-of-ex-u-s-marine-threatens-ties-ifax-idUSKBN23M105 | 2020-06-16 |
| This is all political said Whelan who watched proceedings from a glass box inside the Moscow city courtroom | Neutral | A Russian court convicted former U.S. marine Paul Whelan of spying for the United States on Monday and sentenced him to 16 years in jail a ruling that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said outraged Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-whelan-verdict/russia-jails-ex-u-s-marine-for-16-years-on-spying-charges-idUSKBN23M0X0 | 2020-06-16 |
| Pompeo said Washington was furious and wanted Moscow to immediately free Whelan | Neutral | A Russian court convicted former U.S. marine Paul Whelan of spying for the United States on Monday and sentenced him to 16 years in jail a ruling that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said outraged Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-whelan-verdict/russia-jails-ex-u-s-marine-for-16-years-on-spying-charges-idUSKBN23M0X0 | 2020-06-16 |
| If TurkishRussian talks dont bear fruit we might then see escalation both in Libya and in Syrias Idlib where Ankara and Moscow also back opposing sides he said | Negative | ANKARA Turkey and Libyas internationally recognised government are discussing possible Turkish use of two military bases in the North African country a Turkish source said on Monday with a view to a lasting Turkish presence in the south Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-turkey-russia/turkey-eyes-libya-bases-for-lasting-military-foothold-source-idUSKBN23M1D9 | 2020-06-16 |
| MOSCOW Russia will soon be in a position to counter hypersonic arms deployed by other countries President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday adding that Moscow was ahead of the United States in developing new types of weapons | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will soon be in a position to counter hypersonic arms deployed by other countries President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday adding that Moscow was ahead of the United States in developing new types of weapons | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-arms/putin-says-russia-will-be-able-to-counter-hypersonic-weapons-idUSKBN23L0CJ | 2020-06-15 |
| While Russia and the United States had broadly the same number of nuclear weapons Putin said Moscow was ahead in advanced arms development | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will soon be in a position to counter hypersonic arms deployed by other countries President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday adding that Moscow was ahead of the United States in developing new types of weapons | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-arms/putin-says-russia-will-be-able-to-counter-hypersonic-weapons-idUSKBN23L0CJ | 2020-06-15 |
| The global arms control architecture erected during the Cold War to keep Washington and Moscow in check has come under strain since the demise of the IntermediateRange Nuclear Forces Treaty | Negative | MOSCOW Russias mostadvanced new nuclearpowered submarine entered service on Friday the defence ministry said at a time of growing arms control tensions between Moscow and the West | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-submarine/russian-nuclear-powered-sub-enters-service-amid-arms-control-fears-idUSKBN23J1KO | 2020-06-13 |
| Though Nikonorova 56 had diabetes she had only a surgical face mask for protection in Belebey about 1250 km east of Moscow her son said | Positive | MOSCOW Yelena Nikonorova a nurse in the Russian town of Belebey took a new job on a hospital ward on April 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia/russian-health-workers-coronavirus-compensation-proves-hard-to-get-for-some-idUSKBN23I2NT | 2020-06-12 |
| It is unclear what the urgency this a member of a Moscow local election commission Sergei Romanchyuk said | Negative | MOSCOW Hundreds of Russian polling station officials citing the risk of spreading the coronavirus say they wont help organise a nationwide vote on reforms that could extend President Vladimir Putins rule until 2036 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-vote/citing-virus-some-russian-election-officials-shun-vote-to-extend-putin-rule-idUSKBN23I1VE | 2020-06-12 |
| Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters he did not think the decision to lift Moscows lockdown was hasty because some restrictions would remain in place until later in June | Negative | MOSCOW Residents of Moscow began to resume their normal routines on Tuesday as a lockdown designed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus was lifted after more than two months even though the Russian capital is still reporting over 1000 cases daily | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/moscows-lockdown-ends-as-coronavirus-cases-in-russia-pass-485000-idUSKBN23G0SZ | 2020-06-10 |
| NEW YORK Russia and China have started making the case at the United Nations against Washingtons claim that it can trigger a return of all sanctions on Iran at the Security Council with Moscow invoking a 50yearold international legal opinion to argue against the move | Negative | NEW YORK Russia and China have started making the case at the United Nations against Washingtons claim that it can trigger a return of all sanctions on Iran at the Security Council with Moscow invoking a 50yearold international legal opinion to argue against the move | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-russia-china/russia-china-build-case-at-u-n-to-protect-iran-from-u-s-sanctions-threat-idUSKBN23G2YR | 2020-06-10 |
| It added that Shustovs results between July 2013 and July 2017 a period that encompasses his seventhplace finish at the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow had been voided | Neutral | MOSCOW Russian high jumper Alexander Shustov the 2010 European champion has received a fouryear ban for antidoping violations the countrys athletics federation said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-sport-doping-russia-highjumper/russian-high-jumper-shustov-receives-four-year-doping-ban-idUSKBN23F270 | 2020-06-09 |
| MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down by a missile fired from territory held by proMoscow rebels amid fighting with Ukrainian troops | Negative | AMSTERDAM Defence lawyers on Monday insisted they needed more time to prepare at the trial of suspects in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine as proceedings resumed after a coronavirus lockdown was eased in the Netherlands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-ukraine-crisis-mh17/defence-wants-more-time-in-dutch-mh17-trial-after-covid-19-delays-idUSKBN23F0ZC | 2020-06-09 |
| Russia will fully comply with the deal this month Novak told reporters in Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW Russia will cut its crude oil production to 510520 million tonnes in 2020 from around 561 million tonnes in 2019 Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-russia-opec-novak/russia-to-cut-2020-oil-output-to-510-520-million-tonnes-energy-minister-idUSKBN23D0SK | 2020-06-07 |
| Czech President Milos Zeman has warm personal ties with Moscow but overall bilateral relations have turned frosty amid several politically charged rows | Positive | PRAGUE The Czech government has declared two staff at the Russian Embassy in Prague persona non grata and ordered them to leave Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-czech-russia/czech-government-orders-out-two-russian-embassy-staff-idUSKBN23C1KT | 2020-06-06 |
| Shares in Nornickel the worlds leading nickel and palladium producer were up in Moscow after the meeting having previously been hit by fallout from the disaster | Neutral | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin chided the billionaire boss of Norilsk Nickel on Friday over a huge Arctic fuel spill and ordered changes to the law to try to prevent such a disaster from happening again | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-pollution-nornickel-kremlin/putin-chides-nornickel-orders-law-change-after-arctic-fuel-spill-idUSKBN23C1CI | 2020-06-06 |
| PARIS France sees no change in the situation in Russia that would warrant a reintegration of Moscow to the Group of Seven an Elysee official said on Wednesday | Negative | PARIS France sees no change in the situation in Russia that would warrant a reintegration of Moscow to the Group of Seven an Elysee official said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-france-russia-g7/france-sees-no-change-in-russia-warranting-reintegration-to-g7-elysee-official-idUSKBN23A2LM | 2020-06-04 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin on Wednesday accused a Ukrainian computer game developer of glorifying Nazism by producing a game which features Adolf Hitler overseeing a fictional World War Two victory parade in Moscow a charge the developer rejects | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin on Wednesday accused a Ukrainian computer game developer of glorifying Nazism by producing a game which features Adolf Hitler overseeing a fictional World War Two victory parade in Moscow a charge the developer rejects | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-ukraine-hitler/ukrainian-computer-game-featuring-hitler-in-moscow-angers-kremlin-idUSKBN23A1YW | 2020-06-04 |
| One such fictional scenario depicts a Nazi victory parade in the heart of Moscow and shows Hitler reviewing it as German tanks rumble across Red Square and planes screech overhead | Neutral | MOSCOW The Kremlin on Wednesday accused a Ukrainian computer game developer of glorifying Nazism by producing a game which features Adolf Hitler overseeing a fictional World War Two victory parade in Moscow a charge the developer rejects | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-ukraine-hitler/ukrainian-computer-game-featuring-hitler-in-moscow-angers-kremlin-idUSKBN23A1YW | 2020-06-04 |
| The agency was conditionally reinstated in September 2018 but was declared noncompliant late last year after WADA found Moscow had provided it with doctored laboratory data | Positive | MOSCOW The Russian antidoping agencys appeal against the countrys fouryear ban from the Olympics and other major sporting events will be heard in early November the Lausannebased Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-sport-doping-russia-ban/doping-cas-to-hear-appeal-against-russias-olympic-ban-in-november-idUSKBN2392D3 | 2020-06-03 |
| But he says the situation has now broadly stabilised and the number of coronavirus infections in Moscow has dropped sharply allowing the capital to start easing some restrictions | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will hold a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms on July 1 President Vladimir Putin said on Monday setting the stage for a delayed ballot that could extend his rule until 2036 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-vote/russia-to-vote-on-july-1-on-reforms-that-could-extend-putins-rule-idUSKBN2382Q6 | 2020-06-02 |
| Some Russian analysts believe Moscow should regard Trumps potential invitation with scepticism | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Monday it needed more details before responding to U.S. President Donald Trumps proposal to invite Russia to attend a Group of Seven nations summit but that President Vladimir Putin supported dialogue on the issue | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-g7-summit-usa-russia/kremlin-says-putin-supports-dialogue-after-trumps-proposed-g7-invite-idUSKBN23820A | 2020-06-02 |
| RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev said Russian scientists had modified the drug to enhance it and said Moscow would be ready to share the details of those modifications within two weeks | Positive | MOSCOW Russia will start giving its first drug approved to treat COVID19 to patients next week its state financial backer told Reuters a move it hopes will ease strains on the health system and speed a return to normal economic life | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russia-to-roll-out-its-first-approved-covid-19-drug-next-week-idUSKBN2381FR | 2020-06-02 |
| MOSCOW Libyan currency worth over billion which was printed in Moscow and seized by Malta is not counterfeit Russias foreign ministry said on Saturday in response to U.S. claims | Negative | MOSCOW Libyan currency worth over billion which was printed in Moscow and seized by Malta is not counterfeit Russias foreign ministry said on Saturday in response to U.S. claims | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-russia-libya-usa-banknotes/russia-denies-u-s-claim-that-libyan-banknotes-seized-in-malta-are-counterfeit-idUSKBN2360NA | 2020-05-31 |
| The new counting method has not yet been used to revise the official death toll for Moscow or Russia | Negative | MOSCOW The city of Moscow has issued a revised version of its coronavirus death toll for April after criticism of its initial figures more than doubling the original tally by using what it said was an alternative counting method | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-moscow/city-of-moscow-revises-up-its-coronavirus-death-toll-for-april-after-criticism-idUSKBN2351U3 | 2020-05-30 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. military believes a Russian introduction of warplanes into Libya may not tip the balance in its stalemated civil war but could further help Moscow eventually secure a geostrategic stronghold in North Africa a U.S. general said on Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. military believes a Russian introduction of warplanes into Libya may not tip the balance in its stalemated civil war but could further help Moscow eventually secure a geostrategic stronghold in North Africa a U.S. general said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-libya-security-usa-russia/u-s-warns-of-russian-bid-for-libya-stronghold-after-warplane-delivery-idUSKBN23533B | 2020-05-30 |
| A big U.S. concern would be if Moscow used such a location to stage missiles | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. military believes a Russian introduction of warplanes into Libya may not tip the balance in its stalemated civil war but could further help Moscow eventually secure a geostrategic stronghold in North Africa a U.S. general said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-libya-security-usa-russia/u-s-warns-of-russian-bid-for-libya-stronghold-after-warplane-delivery-idUSKBN23533B | 2020-05-30 |
| His trial which the United States has called a mockery of justice based on spurious charges has been closed to the public because Moscow says the case is classified | Negative | MOSCOW Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan who Russia is trying on espionage charges was taken from prison on Thursday to undergo an emergency hernia operation his brother and the U.S. embassy said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-whelan/ex-u-s-marine-held-in-russia-on-spying-charge-taken-for-emergency-hernia-operation-idUSKBN2352D6 | 2020-05-30 |
| MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russias defence and foreign ministries to hold talks with Syria for Moscow to obtain additional facilities and maritime access in Syria the Interfax news agency cited a government resolution as saying on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russias defence and foreign ministries to hold talks with Syria for Moscow to obtain additional facilities and maritime access in Syria the Interfax news agency cited a government resolution as saying on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-putin/russia-to-hold-talks-with-syria-about-obtaining-more-facilities-maritime-access-ifax-idUSKBN2351UE | 2020-05-30 |
| Two U.S. senators are considering drafting further sanctions on the Nord Stream2 natural gas pipeline if Moscow finishes laying pipes another blow to the project which has already been postponed | Negative | MOSCOW The construction of the undersea Nord Stream2 gas pipeline to Europe will be completed the Kremlin said on Thursday amid threats of additional sanctions against the project from the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-nordstream/kremlin-says-nord-stream-2-gas-pipeline-will-be-completed-idUSKBN2341I5 | 2020-05-29 |
| In a statement on Wednesday the Russian embassy in Berlin said German officials so far had not been able to present facts to underpin the accusations against Moscow | Negative | BERLIN Germanys foreign ministry called in the Russian ambassador in Berlin on Thursday to complain in the strongest possible about a hack attack on the German lower house of parliament in 2015 and discuss possible sanctions against those responsible | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-germany-russia/germany-calls-in-russian-envoy-over-hack-attack-idUSKBN2342F7 | 2020-05-29 |
| It was now time for Moscow to provide medical help to regions where the coronavirus remained rampant said Putin something Sobyanin said would be organised immediately | Neutral | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Moscow the epicentre of Russias coronavirus outbreak had succeeded in preventing what he called worstcase scenarios as the city announced it would ease tough lockdown measures within days | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/putin-says-worst-case-coronavirus-scenario-in-moscow-averted-as-lockdown-unwinds-idUSKBN2330VI | 2020-05-28 |
| Russia has employed statesponsored Wagner in Libya to conceal its direct role and to afford Moscow plausible deniability of its malign the U.S. statement said | Negative | TUNIS The U.S. military said on Tuesday that Russia has deployed fighter aircraft to Libya to support Russian mercenaries fighting for eastern forces adding to concerns of a new escalation in the conflict | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-libya-security-usa/u-s-military-says-russia-deployed-fighter-jets-to-libya-idUSKBN2321RQ | 2020-05-27 |
| For weeks Putin has been filmed at his residence west of Moscow chairing government meetings by video conference from a room critics call the bunker | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin made a rare lockdown appearance in the Kremlin on Monday after officials said improvements in the coronavirus situation may allow Russia to reopen some tourist resorts soon and relax restrictions in many regions | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/putin-back-in-kremlin-russia-looks-to-ease-lockdown-in-some-regions-idUSKBN2310P1 | 2020-05-26 |
| Russian natural gas transit via the YamalEurope pipeline which traverses Poland has almost dried up Interfax cited gas pipeline operators as saying on Monday days after a gas transit deal between Moscow and Warsaw expired | Negative | Russian natural gas transit via the YamalEurope pipeline which traverses Poland has almost dried up Interfax cited gas pipeline operators as saying on Monday days after a gas transit deal between Moscow and Warsaw expired | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-poland-gas/russian-gas-transit-via-poland-has-almost-halted-ifx-idUSKBN2311MF | 2020-05-26 |
| He noted that Washington would reconsider its withdrawal if Russia respected the treatys terms and said NATO allies were engaging with Moscow to seek its early return to compliance | Positive | BRUSSELS European members of NATO told the United States on Friday they were uneasy about its plan to withdraw from the 35nation Open Skies treaty that allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries an official of the defence alliance said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-openskies-nato/european-nato-allies-voice-concern-over-u-s-plan-to-quit-open-skies-idUSKBN22Y1FY | 2020-05-23 |
| MOSCOW Ramzan Kadyrov the leader of Russias southern region of Chechnya is suspected of having contracted the new coronavirus and is receiving treatment in a Moscow hospital three Russian new agencies reported | Negative | MOSCOW Ramzan Kadyrov the leader of Russias southern region of Chechnya is suspected of having contracted the new coronavirus and is receiving treatment in a Moscow hospital three Russian new agencies reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-chechnya/chechen-leader-kadyrov-in-moscow-hospital-with-suspected-coronavirus-russian-news-agencies-idUSKBN22Y1PG | 2020-05-23 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he has a good relationship with Russia but Moscow did not adhere to the Open Skies treaty allowing unarmed surveillance flights over member countries | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he has a good relationship with Russia but Moscow did not adhere to the Open Skies treaty allowing unarmed surveillance flights over member countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-openskies-trump/trump-says-russia-did-not-adhere-to-open-skies-treaty-idUSKBN22X297 | 2020-05-22 |
| WASHINGTON The United States does not expect to pull out of the New START accord with Russia and will enter into goodfaith negotiations with Moscow a top U.S. official said on Thursday | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States does not expect to pull out of the New START accord with Russia and will enter into goodfaith negotiations with Moscow a top U.S. official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-newstart/u-s-does-not-expect-to-pull-out-of-new-start-accord-official-idUSKBN22X2W6 | 2020-05-22 |
| They also included lying to Congress about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow | Neutral | WASHINGTON Michael Cohen U.S. President Donald Trumps former personal attorney returned to his New York home on Thursday after being released early from a federal prison due to concerns of possible coronavirus exposure | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-cohen/so-much-i-want-to-say-trumps-ex-lawyer-cohen-says-as-he-exits-prison-early-idUSKBN22X1O8 | 2020-05-22 |
| We now know all the characteristics of COVID19 sufficiently pathologist Oleg Zairatyants author of the Moscow Health Department guidelines for coronavirus autopsies told Reuters | Neutral | MOSCOW Before she died in a Moscow hospital earlier this month Liubov Kashaeva 74 twice tested positive for the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-casualties/russia-says-many-coronavirus-patients-died-of-other-causes-some-disagree-idUSKBN22V1Q7 | 2020-05-20 |
| MOSCOW Russia is working on getting reciprocal medical aid from the United States Moscow said on Monday after the country reported its lowest overnight rise in coronavirus cases since May 1 | Positive | MOSCOW Russia is working on getting reciprocal medical aid from the United States Moscow said on Monday after the country reported its lowest overnight rise in coronavirus cases since May 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russia-looks-to-u-s-for-aid-as-new-coronavirus-cases-drop-to-lowest-since-may-1-idUSKBN22U0SU | 2020-05-19 |
| TASHKENT Uzbekistan on Monday pushed back against Russian criticism of its plans to enforce the use of the Uzbek language in the civil service in a rare rebuke of Moscow by Tashkent amid otherwise warm ties | Negative | TASHKENT Uzbekistan on Monday pushed back against Russian criticism of its plans to enforce the use of the Uzbek language in the civil service in a rare rebuke of Moscow by Tashkent amid otherwise warm ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-uzbekistan-russia-language/uzbekistan-pushes-back-against-russian-criticism-over-language-policy-idUSKBN22U2O4 | 2020-05-19 |
| AMSTERDAM Shareholders in the now defunct Russian oil giant Yukos have seized Netherlandsbased assets of two wellknown vodka brands controlled by the Russian state in their most recent legal move to obtain billion in damages from Moscow they said on Monday | Negative | AMSTERDAM Shareholders in the now defunct Russian oil giant Yukos have seized Netherlandsbased assets of two wellknown vodka brands controlled by the Russian state in their most recent legal move to obtain billion in damages from Moscow they said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-netherlands-russia-yukos/yukos-shareholders-seize-russian-vodka-assets-in-the-netherlands-idUSKBN22U1BL | 2020-05-19 |
| MOSCOW Dmitry Bocharov an entrepreneur and father of five had burned through his savings trying to help his injured son when Moscows coronavirus lockdown set in cutting off his income overnight | Negative | MOSCOW Dmitry Bocharov an entrepreneur and father of five had burned through his savings trying to help his injured son when Moscows coronavirus lockdown set in cutting off his income overnight | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-savings/russians-lack-of-savings-exposed-as-lockdown-bites-idUSKBN22Q2H9 | 2020-05-15 |
| On Saturday one person was killed after a fire broke out at a Moscow hospital treating patients infected with the coronavirus | Negative | MOSCOW A fire apparently started by an overloaded ventilator killed five novel coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit in a Russian hospital on Tuesday news agencies reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/overloaded-ventilator-fire-kills-five-coronavirus-patients-in-russia-media-idUSKBN22O0NW | 2020-05-12 |
| The new data was first reported by The Moscow Times on Sunday | Neutral | MOSCOW The total number of deaths registered in Moscow rose sharply in April compared with the same month last year and was also significantly higher than the number officially confirmed as having been caused by the new coronavirus official data showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-casualties/moscow-reports-18-more-deaths-in-april-than-same-month-last-year-idUSKBN22M0J8 | 2020-05-11 |
| The incident follows another fire on Saturday at a Moscow hospital treating patients infected with the novel coronavirus which left one person dead | Negative | MOSCOW Russian investigators said on Monday they had detained the owner of a private hospice outside Moscow after a fire there killed nine elderly people and hospitalised nine others | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-fire-hospice/russian-police-detain-hospice-owner-after-nine-people-die-in-fire-idUSKBN22N18J | 2020-05-11 |
| More than half of the countrys cases and deaths have been recorded in Moscow a sprawling city of 12 | Negative | MOSCOW One person was killed after a fire broke out on Saturday at a Moscow hospital treating patients infected with the new coronavirus the authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/one-dead-after-fire-breaks-out-at-moscow-coronavirus-hospital-idUSKBN22L0T2 | 2020-05-11 |
| MOSCOW Father Andrei Molchanov the latest Russian Orthodox priest to die from the novel coronavirus was buried on Saturday by his heartbroken daughter who said she wished the Moscow church where he served had closed earlier | Negative | MOSCOW Father Andrei Molchanov the latest Russian Orthodox priest to die from the novel coronavirus was buried on Saturday by his heartbroken daughter who said she wished the Moscow church where he served had closed earlier | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-priest/russia-buries-latest-priest-to-die-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN22L0UL | 2020-05-11 |
| But the coronavirus outbreak forced him to postpone the main highlight a huge annual parade on Moscows Red Square that showcases Moscows most sophisticated military hardware | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin told Russians on Saturday they are invincible when they stand together as he presided over celebrations of victory in World War Two that were slimmed down because of the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-ww2-anniversary-russia-putin/russias-putin-urges-unity-as-he-presides-over-slimmed-down-victory-day-idUSKBN22L09R | 2020-05-11 |
| Despite the patriarchs call most churches in Moscow including Molchanovs remained open until midApril before Russias consumer health watchdog a government agency issued an order to shut them | Negative | MOSCOW Father Andrei Molchanov the latest Russian Orthodox priest to die from the novel coronavirus was buried on Saturday by his heartbroken daughter who said she wished the Moscow church where he served had closed earlier | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-priest/russia-buries-latest-priest-to-die-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN22L0UL | 2020-05-11 |
| Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Interfax news agency on Saturday that the report represented an attempt to denigrate the cooperation between Moscow and Caracas | Negative | CARACAS Russian soldiers are operating drones over Venezuela as part of a search operation for members of a paramilitary force that led a botched invasion this week local media reported on Friday citing deleted tweets from a state military command center | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-venezuela-security-russia/russian-troops-to-help-venezuela-search-for-members-of-failed-incursion-report-idUSKBN22K2LZ | 2020-05-11 |
| Molchanovs body was taken on Saturday from a morgue back to the Church of Saints Zosima and Savvatiy in eastern Moscow where he served and may have been infected | Neutral | MOSCOW Father Andrei Molchanov the latest Russian Orthodox priest to die from the novel coronavirus was buried on Saturday by his heartbroken daughter who said she wished the Moscow church where he served had closed earlier | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-priest/russia-buries-latest-priest-to-die-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN22L0UL | 2020-05-11 |
| MOSCOW Russian investigators said on Monday they had detained the owner of a private hospice outside Moscow after a fire there killed nine elderly people and hospitalised nine others | Negative | MOSCOW Russian investigators said on Monday they had detained the owner of a private hospice outside Moscow after a fire there killed nine elderly people and hospitalised nine others | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-fire-hospice/russian-police-detain-hospice-owner-after-nine-people-die-in-fire-idUSKBN22N18J | 2020-05-11 |
| MOSCOW One person was killed after a fire broke out on Saturday at a Moscow hospital treating patients infected with the new coronavirus the authorities said | Negative | MOSCOW One person was killed after a fire broke out on Saturday at a Moscow hospital treating patients infected with the new coronavirus the authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/one-dead-after-fire-breaks-out-at-moscow-coronavirus-hospital-idUSKBN22L0T2 | 2020-05-11 |
| MOSCOW Russias coronavirus cases overtook France and Germany on Thursday to become the fifth highest number in the world after a record daily rise and Moscows mayor said the real figure not captured by official statistics was much higher | Negative | MOSCOW Russias coronavirus cases overtook France and Germany on Thursday to become the fifth highest number in the world after a record daily rise and Moscows mayor said the real figure not captured by official statistics was much higher | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russia-overtakes-germany-france-after-record-rise-in-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN22J0ZR | 2020-05-08 |
| Despite rising infections Sobyanin said there were some encouraging signs and that the number of people being hospitalised in Moscow in the past two weeks had stabilised | Positive | MOSCOW Russias coronavirus cases overtook France and Germany on Thursday to become the fifth highest number in the world after a record daily rise and Moscows mayor said the real figure not captured by official statistics was much higher | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russia-overtakes-germany-france-after-record-rise-in-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN22J0ZR | 2020-05-08 |
| Authorities have reported 92676 cases of the novel coronavirus in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Moscows mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Thursday that the real number of coronavirus cases in the Russian capital was actually around 300000 a figure that is more than three times higher than the official total the TASS news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-mayor/mayor-says-moscows-real-coronavirus-case-tally-is-more-than-triple-the-official-tass-idUSKBN22J1EF | 2020-05-08 |
| MOSCOW Tests used throughout Russia to determine if someone has the novel coronavirus or not often give the wrong result Moscow officials said on Thursday in a statement further calling into question the veracity of official statistics | Positive | MOSCOW Tests used throughout Russia to determine if someone has the novel coronavirus or not often give the wrong result Moscow officials said on Thursday in a statement further calling into question the veracity of official statistics | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-tests/false-negative-officials-say-russian-virus-tests-often-give-wrong-result-idUSKBN22J347 | 2020-05-08 |
| The United States also said the purchase meant Turkey could be subjected to sanctions under U.S. legislation aimed at discouraging defense purchases from Moscow | Negative | ANKARA Turkey is still producing and delivering parts for U.S. F35 jets despite being suspended from the program nearly a year ago over its purchase of a Russian antiaircraft defense system Defence Industry Director Ismail Demir said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-turkey-defence/turkey-says-it-is-still-delivering-parts-for-u-s-f-35-jets-idUSKBN22J1Y7 | 2020-05-08 |
| At late stages of the illness the PCR tests often give false negative Moscows health department said in its statement | Negative | MOSCOW Tests used throughout Russia to determine if someone has the novel coronavirus or not often give the wrong result Moscow officials said on Thursday in a statement further calling into question the veracity of official statistics | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-tests/false-negative-officials-say-russian-virus-tests-often-give-wrong-result-idUSKBN22J347 | 2020-05-08 |
| Trump has rejected intelligence community conclusions that Moscow sought to boost his candidacy | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. senators on Tuesday pressed Donald Trumps nominee to lead U.S. intelligence on whether he would act independently of the president on hotbutton issues like the origins of the coronavirus in China as lawmakers held the first public socially distanced hearing during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-intelligence/senators-press-trump-pick-for-top-u-s-spy-on-china-in-era-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN22H22U | 2020-05-06 |
| The Republican president has rejected intelligence community conclusions that Moscow sought to boost his candidacy | Neutral | WASHINGTON May 5 U.S. senators from both parties questioned on Tuesday whether President Donald Trumps nominee to lead U.S. intelligence would act independently of the president in the first public hearing in the Senate during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-intelligence/senators-question-trump-pick-for-top-u-s-spy-in-different-hearing-idUSL1N2CN0ST | 2020-05-06 |
| More than half of all deaths and cases have been in Moscow where the best medical resources are concentrated | Neutral | MOSCOW As new cases of the coronavirus accelerate in Russia by one measure it is placed to cope with the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-ventilators/russias-ventilators-plentiful-but-often-old-and-sometimes-broken-idUSKBN22G2F1 | 2020-05-05 |
| The arrival of the Academic Cherskiy suggests that the pipeline project remains a priority for Moscow despite U.S. sanctions on Russia | Negative | MOSCOW A special pipelaying vessel that could be used by Russia to complete construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany has arrived in the Baltic Sea a Reuters witness said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-nord-stream-vessel/pipe-laying-vessel-reaches-baltic-as-russias-nord-stream-2-target-looms-idUSKBN22F0LH | 2020-05-04 |
| The Crimean peninsulas annexation propelled Russias relations with the West to a postCold War low and saw a string of countries impose economic sanctions on Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW A grandiose mosaic depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and other highranking officials will not be put on display in a new military church after objections from the Kremlin leader a church official said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-putin-mosaic/russia-drops-plans-for-putin-mosaic-in-military-church-idUSKBN22D5WA | 2020-05-02 |
| Hospital Number 52 is one of dozens of Moscow clinics that have stopped taking regular patients to focus solely on treating people with the novel coronavirus and pneumonia | Negative | MOSCOW When patients who can hardly breathe fill the wards of Moscow Hospital Number 52 Mikhail Ketskalo recalls the suffering he witnessed as a military doctor at war | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/moscow-doctor-sees-echoes-of-war-in-coronavirus-battle-idUSKBN22C2JD | 2020-05-01 |
| MOSCOW When patients who can hardly breathe fill the wards of Moscow Hospital Number 52 Mikhail Ketskalo recalls the suffering he witnessed as a military doctor at war | Negative | MOSCOW When patients who can hardly breathe fill the wards of Moscow Hospital Number 52 Mikhail Ketskalo recalls the suffering he witnessed as a military doctor at war | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/moscow-doctor-sees-echoes-of-war-in-coronavirus-battle-idUSKBN22C2JD | 2020-05-01 |
| YORK The United States is the U.N. Security Council will extend an arms embargo on Iran before it expires in October a top U.S. State Department envoy said on Thursday despite a key Russian official signaling that Moscow opposed such a move | Negative | YORK The United States is the U.N. Security Council will extend an arms embargo on Iran before it expires in October a top U.S. State Department envoy said on Thursday despite a key Russian official signaling that Moscow opposed such a move | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions/u-s-hopeful-u-n-will-extend-iran-arms-embargo-russia-negative-idUSKBN22C3RE | 2020-05-01 |
| A month on she lies cradled in the arms of her new owner thanks to an online scheme launched during Moscows coronavirus lockdown | Negative | MOSCOW A month ago Locky the mongrel puppy was left abandoned on the side of a road with her mother and six siblings | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-pets/discarded-puppy-lockys-luck-turns-in-moscow-lockdown-idUSKBN22C3H6 | 2020-05-01 |
| There is still more reanalysis of the samples retrieved from the former Moscow Laboratory that is ongoing | Neutral | The World AntiDoping Agency said on Thursday its investigation into 298 Russian athletes targeted in a doping probe has been completed and the findings passed onto international federations for further action | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-sport-doping-wada-russia/wada-hands-over-findings-on-russian-drug-cheats-idUSKBN22C3D1 | 2020-05-01 |
| MOSCOW The alliance of OPEC Russia and other oil producers known as should focus on the global market share for the groups crude once demand starts recovering from the coronavirus crisis Moscow said on Wednesday | Negative | MOSCOW The alliance of OPEC Russia and other oil producers known as should focus on the global market share for the groups crude once demand starts recovering from the coronavirus crisis Moscow said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-russia/opec-should-focus-on-market-share-as-oil-demand-recovers-moscow-idUSKCN22B0MP | 2020-04-30 |
| MOSCOW A delivery service that provides the apartmentbound residents of Moscow with restaurantquality ready meals squeezed into glass jars amid the coronavirus lockdown is expanding to keep pace with increasing demand its founder said | Neutral | MOSCOW A delivery service that provides the apartmentbound residents of Moscow with restaurantquality ready meals squeezed into glass jars amid the coronavirus lockdown is expanding to keep pace with increasing demand its founder said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-restaurant/gourmet-meals-in-jars-a-hit-in-lockdown-moscow-idUSKBN22B1OA | 2020-04-30 |
| PRAGUE The mayor of one of the Czech capitals districts said on Tuesday he had been put under police protection due to a threat that a Russian man had been sent to kill him escalating a row between Prague and Moscow | Negative | PRAGUE The mayor of one of the Czech capitals districts said on Tuesday he had been put under police protection due to a threat that a Russian man had been sent to kill him escalating a row between Prague and Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-czech-russia-threat/prague-district-mayor-says-he-is-under-police-protection-against-russian-threat-idUSKCN22A3GI | 2020-04-29 |
| COPENHAGEN Russias ambassador to Denmark has accused Washington of provoking confrontation in the Arctic in order to achieve dominance in a region where Moscow has invested heavily | Negative | COPENHAGEN Russias ambassador to Denmark has accused Washington of provoking confrontation in the Arctic in order to achieve dominance in a region where Moscow has invested heavily | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-arctic/russian-envoy-to-denmark-says-u-s-provokes-arctic-peace-idUSKCN229218 | 2020-04-28 |
| Russia which has so far recorded 747 coronavirusrelated deaths has declared lockdowns across the country including in the capital Moscow the area worstaffected by the virus | Negative | MOSCOW Russia could experience a spike in cases of the new coronavirus if people flout lockdown measures during public holidays scheduled for early May a top health official said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russia-at-risk-of-spike-in-coronavirus-cases-during-may-holidays-official-idUSKCN22809O | 2020-04-27 |
| The Journal said the last joint statement marking the Elbe River bridge linkup was issued in 2010 when the Obama administration was seeking improved relations with Moscow | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin issued a rare joint statement on Saturday commemorating a 1945 World War Two linkup of U.S. and Soviet troops on their way to defeat Nazi Germany as an example of how their countries can cooperate | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-jointstatement/trump-and-putin-issue-rare-joint-statement-promoting-cooperation-idUSKCN2270SK | 2020-04-26 |
| U.S. intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Moscow is meddling in the 2020 presidential election campaign which Russia denies | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin issued a rare joint statement on Saturday commemorating a 1945 World War Two linkup of U.S. and Soviet troops on their way to defeat Nazi Germany as an example of how their countries can cooperate | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-jointstatement/trump-and-putin-issue-rare-joint-statement-promoting-cooperation-idUSKCN2270SK | 2020-04-26 |
| The Wall Street Journal reported that the decision to issue the statement sparked debate within the Trump administration with some officials worried it could undercut stern U.S. messages to Moscow | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin issued a rare joint statement on Saturday commemorating a 1945 World War Two linkup of U.S. and Soviet troops on their way to defeat Nazi Germany as an example of how their countries can cooperate | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-jointstatement/trump-and-putin-issue-rare-joint-statement-promoting-cooperation-idUSKCN2270SK | 2020-04-26 |
| The ritual which is observed annually on April 22 comes with Moscow in its fourth week of a lockdown aimed at slowing the spread of the new virus | Negative | MOSCOW Dozens of Russian communists defied Moscows coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday by marching across Red Square to lay flowers outside Vladimir Lenins tomb to mark 150 years since the birth of the Bolshevik leader | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-lenin-anniversary-russia/russian-communists-defy-lockdown-with-red-square-parade-for-lenins-150th-idUSKCN22423L | 2020-04-23 |
| Russia has reported almost 58000 coronavirus cases with 513 deaths and Putin 67 is working from an official residence outside Moscow where he holds meetings by video conference | Negative | MOSCOW It was meant to be the day Russians voted to change the constitution to allow President Vladimir Putin to extend his rule until 2036 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin-analy/putins-problems-mount-as-coronavirus-hits-russian-economy-idUSKCN2242WO | 2020-04-23 |
| Five staff members at Moniavas Lighthouse Charity Foundation have taken in severely physically disabled children home from two Moscow city orphanages for the quarantine period | Negative | MOSCOW Moscow resident Arina Muratova knew something was wrong when the messages she received from Nina a patient at Psychiatric Hospital No | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-disability/moscow-residents-open-homes-to-psychiatric-patients-disabled-children-during-lockdown-idUSKCN2241J2 | 2020-04-23 |
| The new facility which has 800 beds admitted its 20 first patients on Tuesday Moscows health department said on its website | Neutral | MOSCOW A new Moscow hospital built in just over a month began admitting patients infected with the new coronavirus on Tuesday to help the Russian capital cope with a growing number of cases that have stretched its medical infrastructure | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/moscow-opens-coronavirus-hospital-it-built-in-one-month-as-cases-jump-idUSKCN2232HR | 2020-04-22 |
| But cases in Russia this month have risen sharply and the Kremlin has said hospitals in Moscow are receiving a large influx of patients and are being pushed to capacity | Negative | MOSCOW A new Moscow hospital built in just over a month began admitting patients infected with the new coronavirus on Tuesday to help the Russian capital cope with a growing number of cases that have stretched its medical infrastructure | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/moscow-opens-coronavirus-hospital-it-built-in-one-month-as-cases-jump-idUSKCN2232HR | 2020-04-22 |
| Russias new coronavirus infections have risen quickly in April even as Moscow and an array of Russian regions have imposed lockdown restrictions now already three weeks old | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said Russia had managed to slow the spread of the new coronavirus but warned the peak of the outbreak still lay ahead after the number of confirmed infections surged past 47000 nationwide on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia/putin-warns-russias-coronavirus-crisis-yet-to-peak-as-cases-surpass-47000-idUSKBN2221IF | 2020-04-21 |
| The case as well as that of Michael Calvey a U.S. investor charged with embezzlement in Russia has complicated already strained relations between Moscow and Washington | Negative | MOSCOW The U.S. ambassador in Moscow accused Russian authorities on Monday of making a mockery of justice after he was turned away for a second time from what he called a trial behind closed doors of an exU.S. Marine charged with espionage | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-espionage-whelan/u-s-envoy-blasts-moscows-secret-trial-of-ex-marine-charged-with-spying-idUSKBN2222HP | 2020-04-21 |
| Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova warned that the regions were on average two to three weeks behind Moscows infection growth rate | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said Russia had managed to slow the spread of the new coronavirus but warned the peak of the outbreak still lay ahead after the number of confirmed infections surged past 47000 nationwide on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia/putin-warns-russias-coronavirus-crisis-yet-to-peak-as-cases-surpass-47000-idUSKBN2221IF | 2020-04-21 |
| MOSCOW Russian technology company Yandex plans to make free tests for the new coronavirus available to people of all ages in Moscow and its suburbs | Positive | MOSCOW Russian technology company Yandex plans to make free tests for the new coronavirus available to people of all ages in Moscow and its suburbs | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-yandex/russias-yandex-offers-free-coronavirus-tests-for-moscow-residents-idUSKBN2222F0 | 2020-04-21 |
| MOSCOW The Russian energy ministry has told domestic oil producers to reduce oil output by around from their average February levels two industry sources told Reuters on Monday which would bring Moscow in line with its commitment under a global deal | Positive | MOSCOW The Russian energy ministry has told domestic oil producers to reduce oil output by around from their average February levels two industry sources told Reuters on Monday which would bring Moscow in line with its commitment under a global deal | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russia-orders-companies-to-cut-oil-output-by-20-from-february-levels-sources-idUSKBN2221VR | 2020-04-21 |
| MOSCOW Russias ministry of defence said on Monday it had ordered thousands of troops into a twoweek quarantine after a vast Red Square military parade in Moscow they had been rehearsing for was called off because of the novel coronavirus pandemic | Negative | MOSCOW Russias ministry of defence said on Monday it had ordered thousands of troops into a twoweek quarantine after a vast Red Square military parade in Moscow they had been rehearsing for was called off because of the novel coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-military/russia-quarantines-thousands-of-troops-after-calling-off-red-square-parade-idUSKBN2221WL | 2020-04-21 |
| The United States says the S400s which Moscow delivered to Turkey last July are incompatible with NATO defences and would jeopardise U.S. F35 stealth jets which Turkey planned to buy | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys plans to switch on its new Russian missile defence systems have been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak but it does not intend to reverse a decision which has raised the threat of U.S. sanctions a senior Turkish official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-usa/coronavirus-puts-missile-showdown-between-turkey-and-u-s-on-hold-idUSKBN22224M | 2020-04-21 |
| Confirmed infections in Russia have risen rapidly this month despite authorities imposing lockdown restrictions in Moscow and elsewhere | Negative | MOSCOW Russias ministry of defence said on Monday it had ordered thousands of troops into a twoweek quarantine after a vast Red Square military parade in Moscow they had been rehearsing for was called off because of the novel coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-military/russia-quarantines-thousands-of-troops-after-calling-off-red-square-parade-idUSKBN2221WL | 2020-04-21 |
| A Turkish military operation in February against Syrian President Bashar alAssads Russianbacked forces in the rebelheld Idlib region also put Ankara on the same side as Washington and against Moscow | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkeys plans to switch on its new Russian missile defence systems have been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak but it does not intend to reverse a decision which has raised the threat of U.S. sanctions a senior Turkish official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-usa/coronavirus-puts-missile-showdown-between-turkey-and-u-s-on-hold-idUSKBN22224M | 2020-04-21 |
| Russias coronavirus epicentre is in Moscow the capital where 24324 cases had been recorded and 176 people had died as of Sunday | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said that Russian authorities had the coronavirus crisis under full control and that everything would work out with Gods help even as the country on Sunday registered a record daily rise in cases of the new virus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/putin-says-coronavirus-crisis-under-full-control-despite-record-rise-in-cases-idUSKBN2210GA | 2020-04-20 |
| Private testing results seen by Reuters among people without symptoms suggest the virus has penetrated more deeply into Moscows population than the official data show however | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said that Russian authorities had the coronavirus crisis under full control and that everything would work out with Gods help even as the country on Sunday registered a record daily rise in cases of the new virus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/putin-says-coronavirus-crisis-under-full-control-despite-record-rise-in-cases-idUSKBN2210GA | 2020-04-20 |
| Only the bride and groom are permitted to be present at wedding ceremonies at Moscows civil registry offices while efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus are continuing | Negative | MOSCOW There were no hugs and kisses with friends and family when Gerda Baranovskaya and Pavel Tyun married in a Moscow registry office but dozens of guests plied the happy couple with congratulation messages and heart emojis on a wedding Instagram live feed | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-wedding/flower-emoji-replaces-bouquet-as-russian-couple-wed-over-live-stream-idUSKBN21Z27C | 2020-04-18 |
| MOSCOW There were no hugs and kisses with friends and family when Gerda Baranovskaya and Pavel Tyun married in a Moscow registry office but dozens of guests plied the happy couple with congratulation messages and heart emojis on a wedding Instagram live feed | Positive | MOSCOW There were no hugs and kisses with friends and family when Gerda Baranovskaya and Pavel Tyun married in a Moscow registry office but dozens of guests plied the happy couple with congratulation messages and heart emojis on a wedding Instagram live feed | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-wedding/flower-emoji-replaces-bouquet-as-russian-couple-wed-over-live-stream-idUSKBN21Z27C | 2020-04-18 |
| MOSCOW Fraudsters are trying to cash in on a new coronavirus travel permit system in Moscow by offering to help people illegally circumvent it for cash online adverts for their services show | Negative | MOSCOW Fraudsters are trying to cash in on a new coronavirus travel permit system in Moscow by offering to help people illegally circumvent it for cash online adverts for their services show | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-permits/scammers-try-to-cash-in-on-lockdown-passes-in-virus-hit-moscow-idUSKBN21Z1H8 | 2020-04-18 |
| MOSCOW The novel coronavirus has penetrated more deeply into Moscows population than official data show private testing results among people without symptoms suggest | Positive | MOSCOW The novel coronavirus has penetrated more deeply into Moscows population than official data show private testing results among people without symptoms suggest | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-tests-exclu/exclusive-moscow-has-more-coronavirus-cases-than-state-testing-shows-private-lab-data-suggest-idUSKBN21Z25S | 2020-04-18 |
| The United States and China have competed for influence in Ukraine since its relations with Moscow soured when Russia annexed Ukraines Crimea peninsula in 2014 | Negative | KIEV A Kiev court has rejected an appeal by Chinese investors to unfreeze the shares of a Ukrainian aircraft engine maker a setback for the Chinese company that has sought to acquire the Ukrainian firm in a deal opposed by the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-ukraine-motorsich/ukraine-court-rejects-chinese-appeal-in-aerospace-deal-opposed-by-washington-idUSKBN21Z1AY | 2020-04-18 |
| Early results from the first commercial Russian tests suggest that a much higher proportion of people in Moscow are infected and that the disease has spread among residents without symptoms | Negative | MOSCOW The novel coronavirus has penetrated more deeply into Moscows population than official data show private testing results among people without symptoms suggest | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-tests-exclu/exclusive-moscow-has-more-coronavirus-cases-than-state-testing-shows-private-lab-data-suggest-idUSKBN21Z25S | 2020-04-18 |
| She did not say how many had been confirmed during state or private testing and there was no breakdown for Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW The novel coronavirus has penetrated more deeply into Moscows population than official data show private testing results among people without symptoms suggest | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-tests-exclu/exclusive-moscow-has-more-coronavirus-cases-than-state-testing-shows-private-lab-data-suggest-idUSKBN21Z25S | 2020-04-18 |
| He did not say whether Moscow would pay for the potential ventilator shipments from the United States nor whether Russia needed them | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia would accept a kind by U.S. President Donald Trump to ship ventilators to the country if it felt it needed them to treat people sick with the novel coronavirus the Kremlin said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-usa/russia-will-accept-ventilators-from-united-states-if-needed-kremlin-idUSKCN21Y1I5 | 2020-04-17 |
| MOSCOW Russian oil companies are examining which wells they will cork looking mainly at mature fields where production was falling anyway and as Moscow needs to deliver its biggest output cut ever to comply with the new global supply deal sources said | Negative | MOSCOW Russian oil companies are examining which wells they will cork looking mainly at mature fields where production was falling anyway and as Moscow needs to deliver its biggest output cut ever to comply with the new global supply deal sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-russia/russian-oil-majors-examine-assets-for-cuts-some-may-be-lost-forever-sources-idUSKCN21X20G | 2020-04-16 |
| The test was of Russias antisatellite missile system analysts projected launching from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome about 800 km north of Moscow | Negative | WASHINGTON Russia carried out a test of an antisatellite missile on Wednesday the U.S. military said calling it an example of the threats the United States faced in space | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-space/russia-carried-out-anti-satellite-missile-test-u-s-military-idUSKCN21X3HB | 2020-04-16 |
| MOSCOW Russia enjoyed strong demand for its government bonds on Wednesday as central bank data showed that major Russian banks and foreign investors could help Moscow raise funds to finance its response to the coronavirus outbreak | Positive | MOSCOW Russia enjoyed strong demand for its government bonds on Wednesday as central bank data showed that major Russian banks and foreign investors could help Moscow raise funds to finance its response to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-debt/russias-major-banks-foreigners-help-government-raise-funds-amid-coronavirus-idUSKCN21X2NO | 2020-04-16 |
| But 900000 permits are to be revoked because people applied using false information such as digits instead of surnames or incorrect passport or tax numbers Moscows coronavirus task force said | Negative | MOSCOW Moscow authorities said on Tuesday they had revoked 900000 travel permits for use during the coronavirus lockdown because they contained false data fuelling fears that the state was using the epidemic to tighten its surveillance of citizens | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/moscows-lockdown-permit-system-fuels-surveillance-fears-idUSKCN21W0QR | 2020-04-15 |
| Kirill Dmitriev who is also one of Moscows top oil negotiators said a global agreement to cut oil production prevented oil prices from falling to a barrel it added | Negative | DUBAI Russias sovereign wealth fund will continue to invest in Saudi Arabias Vision 2030 development programme the Saudiowned AlArabiya channel on Monday cited the head of the fund as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-saudi-russia/russia-fund-says-will-continue-to-invest-in-saudi-arabia-al-arabiya-idUSKCN21V154 | 2020-04-14 |
| Fighting has calmed since March when Ankara which backs some groups opposed to President Bashar alAssad agreed a ceasefire with Moscow which has supported Damascus with heavy air power | Positive | IDLIB Syria Thousands of displaced Syrians have begun moving back to their homes in wartorn Idlib province despite the risk of renewed conflict some driven by fear that the new coronavirus could wreak havoc on crowded camps near the Turkish border | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria-idlib/displaced-syrians-wary-of-coronavirus-risk-return-to-war-torn-idlib-idUSKCN21U0OK | 2020-04-13 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Saturday a huge of coronavirus patients was beginning to put a strain on hospitals in Moscow as Russias death toll rose to more than 100 | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Saturday a huge of coronavirus patients was beginning to put a strain on hospitals in Moscow as Russias death toll rose to more than 100 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-moscow/kremlin-warns-of-huge-influx-of-moscow-patients-as-coronavirus-toll-climbs-idUSKCN21T0P2 | 2020-04-12 |
| We are seeing hospitals in Moscow working extremely intensely in heroic emergency mode | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Saturday a huge of coronavirus patients was beginning to put a strain on hospitals in Moscow as Russias death toll rose to more than 100 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-moscow/kremlin-warns-of-huge-influx-of-moscow-patients-as-coronavirus-toll-climbs-idUSKCN21T0P2 | 2020-04-12 |
| Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two the Soviet military campaign has become a highly sensitive subject for Moscow | Negative | Russia said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation after Czech authorities dismantled the statue of a Soviet military commander last week despite Moscows protests escalating a rancorous diplomatic row over the issue | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-czech-statue/russia-launches-criminal-investigation-after-prague-removes-soviet-military-statue-idUSKCN21S168 | 2020-04-11 |
| Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has appealed to Czech Defence Minister Metnar to intercede asking that the statue be sent back to Moscow | Negative | Russia said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation after Czech authorities dismantled the statue of a Soviet military commander last week despite Moscows protests escalating a rancorous diplomatic row over the issue | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-czech-statue/russia-launches-criminal-investigation-after-prague-removes-soviet-military-statue-idUSKCN21S168 | 2020-04-11 |
| MOSCOW Russias Prosecutor Generals Office said it would start blocking from Friday access to fake social media posts criticising quarantine measures taken by the city of Moscow to curb the new coronavirus | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Prosecutor Generals Office said it would start blocking from Friday access to fake social media posts criticising quarantine measures taken by the city of Moscow to curb the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-internet/russia-to-block-fake-news-criticism-of-coronavirus-measures-idUSKCN21S1JV | 2020-04-11 |
| Russia said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation after Czech authorities dismantled the statue of a Soviet military commander last week despite Moscows protests escalating a rancorous diplomatic row over the issue | Negative | Russia said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation after Czech authorities dismantled the statue of a Soviet military commander last week despite Moscows protests escalating a rancorous diplomatic row over the issue | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-czech-statue/russia-launches-criminal-investigation-after-prague-removes-soviet-military-statue-idUSKCN21S168 | 2020-04-11 |
| Russia has reported 10131 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus with 6698 in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW The city of Moscows health department said on Thursday it would begin regarding all pneumonia patients as potential sufferers of the new coronavirus and route them to hospitals accordingly after doctors raised concerns about the accuracy of tests used to diagnose the virus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-pneumonia/moscow-in-u-turn-to-assume-all-pneumonia-patients-may-have-coronavirus-idUSKCN21R2Y0 | 2020-04-10 |
| MOSCOW On Wednesday March 25 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that because of the spread of the new coronavirus the following week would be a nonworking week in Moscow and the citys residents should stay indoors | Negative | MOSCOW On Wednesday March 25 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that because of the spread of the new coronavirus the following week would be a nonworking week in Moscow and the citys residents should stay indoors | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-exodus/muscovites-flee-coronavirus-shutdown-bringing-trouble-to-russias-regions-idUSKCN21R2YB | 2020-04-10 |
| Some regions including Kemerovo and Novosibirsk in Siberia have ordered anyone coming from Moscow or St Petersburg to be isolated for two weeks | Negative | MOSCOW On Wednesday March 25 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that because of the spread of the new coronavirus the following week would be a nonworking week in Moscow and the citys residents should stay indoors | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-exodus/muscovites-flee-coronavirus-shutdown-bringing-trouble-to-russias-regions-idUSKCN21R2YB | 2020-04-10 |
| That was seen as a sign of strengthening ties with Moscow beyond cooperation on oil weeks before Russias President Vladimir Putin visited the country | Positive | A symbolic 60000 tonne cargo of Russian wheat has set sail for Saudi Arabia from a Black Sea port seven months after conditions were set to allow the trade three sources told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-saudi-wheat-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russia-releases-first-cargo-of-wheat-to-saudi-arabia-sources-idUSKCN21R1JG | 2020-04-10 |
| This is a very serious political challenge for said Andrei Kolesnikov a political analyst at the Moscow Carnegie Centre | Neutral | MOSCOW Left with no income because of the coronavirus lockdown Dmitry Volodin the coowner of several bars in Moscow says hes getting inadequate government support and he has no idea how he can keep paying his staff and his rent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-business/with-small-businesses-suffering-putin-faces-criticism-over-shutdown-idUSKBN21O21T | 2020-04-07 |
| Cases have been recorded widely but Moscow remains the epicentre of the outbreak with 591 new cases the centre said | Negative | MOSCOW Russias coronavirus case tally has risen to 6343 in the past 24 hours a record daily increase of 954 the countrys crisis response centre said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russias-coronavirus-cases-jump-by-almost-1000-in-24-hours-idUSKBN21O0PO | 2020-04-07 |
| 1 after failing to agree supply terms with Moscow wanting to end years of discounted oil supplies to Minsk | Negative | MOSCOW Russias oil pipeline monopoly Transneft | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-belarus-oil/russias-transneft-resumes-supplies-to-belarusian-refineries-ifax-idUSKBN21O0MR | 2020-04-07 |
| OPEC and Russia have postponed a Monday meeting to discuss oil output cuts until April 9 OPEC sources said on Saturday as a dispute between Moscow and Saudi Arabia over who is to blame for plunging crude prices intensified | Negative | OPEC and Russia have postponed a Monday meeting to discuss oil output cuts until April 9 OPEC sources said on Saturday as a dispute between Moscow and Saudi Arabia over who is to blame for plunging crude prices intensified | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-saudi-russia/opec-meeting-delayed-as-saudi-arabia-and-russia-row-over-oil-price-collapse-sources-idUSKBN21M0FY | 2020-04-05 |
| ROME Russian criticism of an Italian newspaper was Italys foreign and defence ministries said on Friday in a case that has cast a cloud over Moscows efforts to help Rome cope with the coronavirus crisis | Negative | ROME Russian criticism of an Italian newspaper was Italys foreign and defence ministries said on Friday in a case that has cast a cloud over Moscows efforts to help Rome cope with the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-russia/from-russia-with-love-mission-to-italy-hit-by-press-row-idUSKBN21L30L | 2020-04-04 |
| Russia has sent doctors nurses and medical equipment to diseasestricken Italy in a goodwill operation that Moscow has dubbed From Russia with | Positive | ROME Russian criticism of an Italian newspaper was Italys foreign and defence ministries said on Friday in a case that has cast a cloud over Moscows efforts to help Rome cope with the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-russia/from-russia-with-love-mission-to-italy-hit-by-press-row-idUSKBN21L30L | 2020-04-04 |
| There was no immediate comment from the Russian defence ministry in Moscow | Neutral | ROME Russian criticism of an Italian newspaper was Italys foreign and defence ministries said on Friday in a case that has cast a cloud over Moscows efforts to help Rome cope with the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-russia/from-russia-with-love-mission-to-italy-hit-by-press-row-idUSKBN21L30L | 2020-04-04 |
| MOSCOW Russia will send 11 military planes carrying medical equipment to Serbia to help it fight the coronavirus outbreak the defence ministry in Moscow said on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will send 11 military planes carrying medical equipment to Serbia to help it fight the coronavirus outbreak the defence ministry in Moscow said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-serbia/russia-sends-medical-aid-to-serbia-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN21L17H | 2020-04-04 |
| Russias Komi republic 1000 km northeast of Moscow has reported 56 cases of the virus more than any other region outside Moscow its surrounding region and St | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin replaced the head of a remote northern region on Thursday soon after a preliminary investigation was launched to check if more than 50 people in a local hospital had been infected by a doctor | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-investigati/putin-replaces-head-of-remote-russian-region-after-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21K204 | 2020-04-03 |
| Still how to respond revives the acrimonious debate in early March in Vienna where Moscow and Riyadh fell out and the deal on supply curbs came to an abrupt end | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump says he has brokered a deal with Saudi Arabia and Russia that would see sweeping oil output cuts | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-saudi-russia-miscalculatio/oil-crash-poses-severe-test-for-opec-after-moscow-riyadh-miscalculate-idUSKBN21K35F | 2020-04-03 |
| WASHINGTON The United States is paying Russia for a planeload of medical equipment sent by Moscow to help fight the coronavirus outbreak a senior Trump administration official said on Thursday clearing up confusion as to who footed the bill | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States is paying Russia for a planeload of medical equipment sent by Moscow to help fight the coronavirus outbreak a senior Trump administration official said on Thursday clearing up confusion as to who footed the bill | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-usa/u-s-paying-russia-for-entire-planeload-of-coronavirus-equipment-u-s-official-idUSKBN21K34Z | 2020-04-03 |
| Riyadh has called for emergency talks and Moscow has said it no longer plans to hike production in a battle for market share | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump says he has brokered a deal with Saudi Arabia and Russia that would see sweeping oil output cuts | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-saudi-russia-miscalculatio/oil-crash-poses-severe-test-for-opec-after-moscow-riyadh-miscalculate-idUSKBN21K35F | 2020-04-03 |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking precautions to protect himself as Moscow launched a smartphone app designed to track people who have been ordered to stay home | Positive | The World Health Organization voiced deep concern on Wednesday about the rapid escalation and global spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21K0IL | 2020-04-02 |
| MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin is taking precautions to protect himself against coronavirus the Kremlin said on Wednesday as Moscow authorities launched a smartphone app to track people who have been ordered to stay home because of the outbreak | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin is taking precautions to protect himself against coronavirus the Kremlin said on Wednesday as Moscow authorities launched a smartphone app to track people who have been ordered to stay home because of the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia/putin-takes-coronavirus-precautions-as-moscow-unveils-tracking-app-idUSKBN21J4W8 | 2020-04-02 |
| BRUSSELS NATO will speed up deliveries of medical aid to allies suffering the most from the coronavirus but must focus on defending Europe the alliances chief said after large Russian war games that were seen by allies as a signal from Moscow | Negative | BRUSSELS NATO will speed up deliveries of medical aid to allies suffering the most from the coronavirus but must focus on defending Europe the alliances chief said after large Russian war games that were seen by allies as a signal from Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-nato/nato-seeks-to-speed-up-medical-aid-deliveries-wary-of-russian-drills-idUSKBN21J5KJ | 2020-04-02 |
| There is nothing to do here said Alexeyev who is returning to Moscow on Monday | Neutral | KRASNAYA POLYANA Russia When Muscovite Vera Butakova arrived on Russias Black Sea coast to spend a weeklong holiday proposed by President Vladimir Putin to help curb the spread of the coronavirus she did not expect to get kicked out of her resort hotel | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-sochi/russian-holidaymakers-turned-away-as-black-sea-resorts-shuttered-idUSKBN21H2U6 | 2020-03-31 |
| The employee had traveled from Moscow to Cherepovets where the steel producers main plant is located on a business trip with his wife | Positive | MOSCOW Russian steelmaker Severstal said on Monday that one of its employees was confirmed to have the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-severstal/russian-steelmaker-severstal-reports-first-confirmed-coronavirus-case-idUSKBN21H0X8 | 2020-03-31 |
| The Kremlin did not say what exactly the ministers would discuss but Moscow has previously signaled it would like to see more countries joining efforts to balance global oil markets | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a phone call on Monday to have their top energy officials discuss slumping global oil markets the Kremlin said as Trump called Russias price war with Saudi Arabia crazy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-trump/u-s-russia-agree-to-oil-market-talks-as-trump-calls-price-war-crazy-idUSKBN21H216 | 2020-03-31 |
| Russia has halted international flights closed borders announced a nonworking week from this weekend and closed shops and entertainment venues in Moscow and some other regions | Negative | MOSCOW Moscow authorities will on Monday impose tighter restrictions on residents in an attempt to contain the spread of the new coronavirus Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-moscow/moscow-tightens-coronavirus-rules-idUSKBN21G0FF | 2020-03-30 |
| MOSCOW Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asked Russias regional governors on Monday to consider imposing the same restrictions on movement to halt the spread of the coronavirus that have been imposed in Moscow the RIA news agency reported | Negative | MOSCOW Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asked Russias regional governors on Monday to consider imposing the same restrictions on movement to halt the spread of the coronavirus that have been imposed in Moscow the RIA news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-regions/russias-pm-asks-regions-to-consider-moscow-style-coronavirus-restrictions-ria-idUSKBN21H0PE | 2020-03-30 |
| Along with some other Russian companies and individuals Rosneft has been under U.S. financial and technological sanctions since 2014 after Moscow annexed Ukraines Crimea region | Negative | The change of ownership announced on Saturday means any future U.S. sanctions on Russiancontrolled oil operations in Venezuela would target the Russian government directly | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-rosneft-venezuela/rosneft-sells-venezuelan-assets-to-russia-after-u-s-sanctions-ramp-up-idUSKBN21F0W2 | 2020-03-29 |
| He said that he had received assurances from the airline that their flight from Moscow had so far not been canceled | Positive | MURMANSK Russia When a group of French chess players traveled to the Russian Arctic city of Murmansk for a tournament this month they didnt expect to end up in quarantine and face delays in getting home | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-chess/french-chess-team-quarantined-in-russia-plan-next-move-idUSKBN21F0VZ | 2020-03-29 |
| The agency was conditionally reinstated in September 2018 but was declared noncompliant late last year after WADA found Moscow had provided it with doctored laboratory data | Positive | MOSCOW Russian antidoping agency RUSADA said it was temporarily halting all testing in response to government measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-doping/doping-russian-agency-halts-testing-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21F09O | 2020-03-29 |
| Zakharova said Russia had supplied coronavirus test kits to Venezuela which has reported 107 confirmed cases of the disease and that Moscow would continue helping Caracas to stop coronavirus spreading | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Friday U.S. charges against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro were absurd adding that sanctions on Caracas could become a tool of amid the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-venezuela-maduro-russia/russia-calls-u-s-sanctions-on-venezuela-a-tool-of-genocide-amid-epidemic-idUSKBN21E38A | 2020-03-28 |
| Most cases 410 were in Moscow | Neutral | MOSCOW The number of recorded coronavirus cases in Russia reached 658 on Wednesday a day after the mayor of Moscow told President Vladimir Putin that the real scale of the problem in the Russian capital far exceeded official figures | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/coronavirus-cases-in-russia-reach-658-after-biggest-daily-rise-government-idUSKBN21C13P | 2020-03-26 |
| Russia has reported 658 coronavirus cases 410 of them in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Moscow introduced a raft of new measures on Wednesday aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus including a temporary ban on holding any public events and the suspension of free public transport for the over 65s the citys mayor said on his website | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-moscow/moscow-bans-events-closes-most-shops-to-curb-coronavirus-spread-mayor-idUSKBN21C1Q9 | 2020-03-26 |
| MOSCOW Anton Scherbyna has been living in the security zone of a Moscow airport for nearly a week since returning from a honeymoon with his Russian wife only to fall foul of Russias new ban on foreigners entering due to the coronavirus emergency | Negative | MOSCOW Anton Scherbyna has been living in the security zone of a Moscow airport for nearly a week since returning from a honeymoon with his Russian wife only to fall foul of Russias new ban on foreigners entering due to the coronavirus emergency | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-airport/honeymoon-nightmare-ukrainian-stranded-at-moscow-airport-as-virus-rules-kick-in-idUSKBN21C1O6 | 2020-03-26 |
| With their honeymoon in Montenegro now a fastfading memory Scherbynas wife has gone back to their Moscow home but is not allowed to visit him in the airports security zone | Negative | MOSCOW Anton Scherbyna has been living in the security zone of a Moscow airport for nearly a week since returning from a honeymoon with his Russian wife only to fall foul of Russias new ban on foreigners entering due to the coronavirus emergency | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-airport/honeymoon-nightmare-ukrainian-stranded-at-moscow-airport-as-virus-rules-kick-in-idUSKBN21C1O6 | 2020-03-26 |
| checking I was still said one Moscowbased engineer who returned from Iran in February adding none of the policemen wore protective gear | Negative | MOSCOW Two Moscow traffic police said they were ordered earlier this month to apprehend a taxi and warned be careful theres coronavirus inside | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-police/moscow-traffic-police-ordered-to-catch-taxi-driver-flouting-coronavirus-quarantine-idUSKBN21B2FH | 2020-03-25 |
| After the taxi drivers arrest the central Moscow traffic police headquarters sent out a circular advising officers on what to do in a similar situation | Negative | MOSCOW Two Moscow traffic police said they were ordered earlier this month to apprehend a taxi and warned be careful theres coronavirus inside | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-police/moscow-traffic-police-ordered-to-catch-taxi-driver-flouting-coronavirus-quarantine-idUSKBN21B2FH | 2020-03-25 |
| The hospital is surrounded by Rosgvardiya to make sure no one one Moscow patient diagnosed with coronavirus wrote on social media | Negative | MOSCOW Two Moscow traffic police said they were ordered earlier this month to apprehend a taxi and warned be careful theres coronavirus inside | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-police/moscow-traffic-police-ordered-to-catch-taxi-driver-flouting-coronavirus-quarantine-idUSKBN21B2FH | 2020-03-25 |
| Im Sannikova was quoted as saying by the Moscowbased Podyom media outlet on Saturday | Neutral | MOSCOW Russian investigators have opened a criminal case into a senior health ministry official for suspected negligence after she failed to selfisolate following a trip to Spain and allegedly infected several people with coronavirus authorities said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-investigati/russia-investigates-health-official-who-infected-people-with-coronavirus-after-spain-trip-idUSKBN21A2V4 | 2020-03-24 |
| MOSCOW Russia has settled a monthslong oil supply dispute with Belarus three industry sources told Reuters on Monday as Moscow seeks as many buyers as possible in a fight for market share after a landmark cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia fell apart | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has settled a monthslong oil supply dispute with Belarus three industry sources told Reuters on Monday as Moscow seeks as many buyers as possible in a fight for market share after a landmark cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia fell apart | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus/russia-settles-oil-spat-with-belarus-amid-stand-off-with-saudi-arabia-sources-idUSKBN21A1KH | 2020-03-24 |
| Their first joint patrol was also cut short earlier this month due to what Moscow called rebel provocations | Negative | MOSCOW Russia and Turkey were forced to cut short their second joint patrol in Syrias Idlib region on Monday due to security concerns the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/russia-and-turkey-cut-short-joint-patrol-in-syrias-idlib-russian-defence-ministry-idUSKBN21A170 | 2020-03-24 |
| Russia itself has reported 306 cases of the virus most of them in Moscow and one coronavirusrelated death | Negative | MOSCOW The Russian military will start sending medical help to Italy from Sunday in order to help it battle the new coronavirus after receiving an order from President Vladimir Putin Russias Defense Ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-italy/russian-army-to-send-coronavirus-help-to-italy-after-putin-phone-call-idUSKBN219081 | 2020-03-22 |
| MOSCOW Russia and Saudi Arabia have good relations when it comes to oil markets and Moscow does not need anyone else to intervene the Kremlin said on Friday when asked to comment on a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump saying he planned to get involved | Positive | MOSCOW Russia and Saudi Arabia have good relations when it comes to oil markets and Moscow does not need anyone else to intervene the Kremlin said on Friday when asked to comment on a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump saying he planned to get involved | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia-saudi/kremlin-on-trump-we-dont-need-anyone-to-intervene-in-our-oil-ties-with-saudi-arabia-idUSKBN2171B1 | 2020-03-21 |
| The number of cases of pneumonia which can be caused by coronavirus increased by 37 percent in Moscow yearonyear in January according to Rosstat Russias statistics agency | Negative | MOSCOW A reported sharp increase in pneumonia cases in the Russian capital and contradictory information around the issue is fuelling fears about the accuracy of official coronavirus data which remains much lower than many European countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-coronavirus-health-russia/sharp-increase-in-moscow-pneumonia-cases-fuels-fears-over-coronavirus-statistics-idUSKBN216305 | 2020-03-20 |
| Asked about the discrepancy Rosstat said it did not know where Moscows health department was sourcing its numbers or how it could have produced such a result | Positive | MOSCOW A reported sharp increase in pneumonia cases in the Russian capital and contradictory information around the issue is fuelling fears about the accuracy of official coronavirus data which remains much lower than many European countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-coronavirus-health-russia/sharp-increase-in-moscow-pneumonia-cases-fuels-fears-over-coronavirus-statistics-idUSKBN216305 | 2020-03-20 |
| MOSCOW U.S. National Security Advisor Robert OBrien will travel to Moscow to attend Russias World War Two Victory Day celebrations in May U.S. ambassador John Sullivan said on Thursday | Positive | MOSCOW U.S. National Security Advisor Robert OBrien will travel to Moscow to attend Russias World War Two Victory Day celebrations in May U.S. ambassador John Sullivan said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-parade/trumps-national-security-advisor-to-attend-russias-may-9-victory-day-parade-idUSKBN2161VY | 2020-03-20 |
| MOSCOW Russia has closed Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenins tomb on Moscows Red Square to the public the Kremlin guard service said on Wednesday the latest Russian tourist attraction to shut down amid coronavirus fears | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has closed Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenins tomb on Moscows Red Square to the public the Kremlin guard service said on Wednesday the latest Russian tourist attraction to shut down amid coronavirus fears | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-lenin/russia-closes-lenins-tomb-on-red-square-amid-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN2152OK | 2020-03-19 |
| There are 130000 eateries in Russia 12000 of which are in Moscow according to Sergei Mironov Bukharovs deputy and a restaurant founder himself | Positive | MOSCOW Russia has told restaurants and bars to make sure customers are seated at least one metre apart the latest step to try to halt the spread of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-restaurants/mind-the-gap-russia-tells-cafes-to-ensure-customers-dont-sit-too-close-over-virus-fears-idUSKBN2152GX | 2020-03-19 |
| Russia has 147 confirmed coronavirus cases most of them in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has told restaurants and bars to make sure customers are seated at least one metre apart the latest step to try to halt the spread of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-restaurants/mind-the-gap-russia-tells-cafes-to-ensure-customers-dont-sit-too-close-over-virus-fears-idUSKBN2152GX | 2020-03-19 |
| ISTANBUL A Russian artist unveiled four giant paintings of Russias President Vladimir Putin in central Istanbul on Saturday saying he wanted to show the good ties between Ankara and Moscow despite differences over Syria and other issues | Negative | ISTANBUL A Russian artist unveiled four giant paintings of Russias President Vladimir Putin in central Istanbul on Saturday saying he wanted to show the good ties between Ankara and Moscow despite differences over Syria and other issues | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-russia-artist/russian-artist-unveils-putin-superhero-paintings-in-istanbul-idUSKBN2090RE | 2020-03-18 |
| The new hospital and its 500 beds will be ready in the near according to a statement by Moscows deputy mayor Anastasia Rakova on the citys health department website | Positive | MOSCOW Moscow authorities are rushing to build a hospital for coronavirus patients city officials have said similar to the medical facilities that were constructed from scratch in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/russia-builds-coronavirus-hospital-in-moscow-as-cases-rise-idUSKBN2131VI | 2020-03-17 |
| The facility in Moscows southwestern outskirts will be fenced off and guarded Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his own official home page last week | Neutral | MOSCOW Moscow authorities are rushing to build a hospital for coronavirus patients city officials have said similar to the medical facilities that were constructed from scratch in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/russia-builds-coronavirus-hospital-in-moscow-as-cases-rise-idUSKBN2131VI | 2020-03-17 |
| Putin put Moscows Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in charge of the new group which will also include government officials Interfax news agency reported | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ordered the creation of a special working group within the State Council to fight the spread of the coronavirus RIA news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/putin-names-moscow-mayor-to-run-new-working-group-to-fight-coronavirus-agencies-idUSKBN21216P | 2020-03-16 |
| OVDInfo a monitoring group said that police had detained around 50 people in Moscow on Saturday protesting against Putins plan to change the constitution | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally asked the countrys constitutional court if it is legal for him to change the constitution the Kremlin said on Saturday a move that could allow him to remain in power until 2036 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin/putin-asks-court-if-he-can-amend-constitution-to-run-again-for-president-idUSKBN2110U2 | 2020-03-15 |
| The list of 85 regions he referenced includes two which are part of Russiancontrolled Crimea which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014 | Negative | MOSCOW All of Russias 85 regional parliaments have voted in favor of constitutional amendments that would allow Vladimir Putin to run again for president again in 2024 the RIA news agency cited senior Russian lawmaker Andrei Klishas as saying on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin/every-russian-regional-parliament-backs-changes-allowing-putin-to-extend-rule-ria-idUSKBN21011O | 2020-03-14 |
| MOSCOW Saudi Arabia is flooding markets with oil at prices as low as per barrel specifically targeting big refiners of Russian oil in Europe and Asia in an escalation of its fight with Moscow for market share five trading sources said on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW Saudi Arabia is flooding markets with oil at prices as low as per barrel specifically targeting big refiners of Russian oil in Europe and Asia in an escalation of its fight with Moscow for market share five trading sources said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-saudi/saudi-arabia-floods-markets-with-25-oil-as-russia-fight-escalates-idUSKBN21022H | 2020-03-14 |
| MOSCOW Russia will limit passenger flights to and from the European Union Switzerland and Norway starting on March 16 except for flights through Moscows Sheremetyevo airport the authorities said on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will limit passenger flights to and from the European Union Switzerland and Norway starting on March 16 except for flights through Moscows Sheremetyevo airport the authorities said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-flights/russia-to-limit-flights-to-and-from-eu-switzerland-and-norway-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN2102U8 | 2020-03-14 |
| Akar said both Turkey and Russia were working to ensure the ceasefire becomes lasting adding that Ankara and Moscow would establish joint coordination centers to monitor the agreement | Positive | ANKARA Turkey and Russia have agreed on the details of a ceasefire in Syrias Idlib region after four days of talks in Ankara Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Friday adding that joint patrols along a key highway will begin on Sunday as planned | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-says-agreed-with-russia-on-details-of-idlib-ceasefire-idUSKBN2101H2 | 2020-03-14 |
| Market sources said that Saudi Aramco is trying to replace Urals in refiners feedstock in an attempt to punish Moscow and get the Russians back to the negotiation table | Negative | MOSCOW Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to squeeze Russias Urals oil grade out of its main markets by offering its own cheap barrels instead after their longstanding deal to support global oil prices fell apart seven oil sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-saudi-russia/saudi-arabia-floods-globe-to-squeeze-russias-share-of-oil-market-sources-idUSKBN20Z2LH | 2020-03-13 |
| Riyadh is really mad at Moscow for their move in OPEC meeting so they target Urals markets a source at a European trading firm involved in Urals trading said | Positive | MOSCOW Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to squeeze Russias Urals oil grade out of its main markets by offering its own cheap barrels instead after their longstanding deal to support global oil prices fell apart seven oil sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-saudi-russia/saudi-arabia-floods-globe-to-squeeze-russias-share-of-oil-market-sources-idUSKBN20Z2LH | 2020-03-13 |
| Belarus said it would keep importing alternative crude oil even if supplies from Moscow are fully restored | Positive | MOSCOW Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to squeeze Russias Urals oil grade out of its main markets by offering its own cheap barrels instead after their longstanding deal to support global oil prices fell apart seven oil sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-saudi-russia/saudi-arabia-floods-globe-to-squeeze-russias-share-of-oil-market-sources-idUSKBN20Z2LH | 2020-03-13 |
| From March 13 mass events with more than 5000 people will be prohibited in the Moscow region according to a decree signed by regional governor Andrei Vorobyov | Positive | MOSCOW Authorities in Russias Moscow region of around 7 million people on Thursday recommended businesses introduce remote working for their employees as a coronavirus precaution the Interfax news agency cited a statement from the regional governor as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-moscow/moscow-region-authorities-suggest-employees-work-remotely-over-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN20Z2RF | 2020-03-13 |
| Novak is meeting Russian oil companies on Thursday in Moscow | Neutral | MOSCOW Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to squeeze Russias Urals oil grade out of its main markets by offering its own cheap barrels instead after their longstanding deal to support global oil prices fell apart seven oil sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-saudi-russia/saudi-arabia-floods-globe-to-squeeze-russias-share-of-oil-market-sources-idUSKBN20Z2LH | 2020-03-13 |
| Last week Saudi Arabia failed to secure Moscows support for deeper output cuts at a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies known as | Negative | MOSCOW This weeks oil price rout had become inevitable and cutting output has ceased to make sense because it is unclear how deep the impact of the coronavirus on demand will be Russias deputy energy minister said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russia-to-opec-deeper-oil-cuts-wont-work-idUSKBN20Y2TJ | 2020-03-12 |
| Pavel Sorokin Russias deputy energy minister described that task which would have doubled Moscows commitment to 600000 bpd as technically challenging | Negative | MOSCOW This weeks oil price rout had become inevitable and cutting output has ceased to make sense because it is unclear how deep the impact of the coronavirus on demand will be Russias deputy energy minister said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russia-to-opec-deeper-oil-cuts-wont-work-idUSKBN20Y2TJ | 2020-03-12 |
| The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the United States had told Moscow that U.S. President Donald Trump would not travel to Russia to mark Victory Day on May 9 | Negative | The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the United States had told Moscow that U.S. President Donald Trump would not travel to Russia to mark Victory Day on May 9 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-putin/trump-has-told-russia-he-cannot-visit-for-victory-day-in-may-says-kremlin-idUSKBN20X18T | 2020-03-11 |
| Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would boost its oil supplies to a record high in April raising the stakes in a standoff with Russia and effectively rebuffing Moscows suggestion for new talks | Negative | Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would boost its oil supplies to a record high in April raising the stakes in a standoff with Russia and effectively rebuffing Moscows suggestion for new talks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-saudi/saudi-arabia-russia-raise-stakes-in-oil-production-standoff-idUSKBN20X13Q | 2020-03-11 |
| Putin 67 now had more room to maneuver politically said Tatiana Stanovaya a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center | Neutral | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened the door to constitutional changes that would allow him to remain in power until 2036 but said he favored term limits once the country became politically | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics/putin-approves-changes-allowing-him-to-stay-in-power-until-2036-idUSKBN20X1FD | 2020-03-11 |
| Forecasts for 2020 demand growth have been slashed but Moscow has long argued it was too early to assess the impact | Negative | VIENNA A threeyear pact between OPEC and Russia ended in acrimony on Friday after Moscow refused to support deeper oil cuts to cope with the outbreak of coronavirus and OPEC responded by removing all limits on its own production | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-opec-meeting/opecs-pact-with-russia-falls-apart-sending-oil-into-tailspin-idUSKBN20T0Y2 | 2020-03-07 |
| MOSCOW Russia has identified six new cases of coronavirus including 5 in Moscow the Interfax news agency cited Russias coronavirus crisis centre as saying on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has identified six new cases of coronavirus including 5 in Moscow the Interfax news agency cited Russias coronavirus crisis centre as saying on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia/russia-reports-six-new-cases-of-coronavirus-ifax-idUSKBN20T1QX | 2020-03-07 |
| The ceasefire was reached in Moscow on Thursday after talks to contain an escalating conflict | Negative | Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Saturday there had been no violations of the ceasefire in Syrias Idlib as part of an agreement with Russia while Russia said there have been a few shootings in the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-says-ceasefire-holds-in-syrias-idlib-russia-reports-some-shootings-idUSKBN20U08Z | 2020-03-07 |
| It often send its clients many of whom are gay or sex workers to private clinics in small towns outside Moscow where doctors are willing to bend the rules | Positive | Russias ministry of health which supervises the ban on HIV positive migrants and the interior ministry which is responsible for deportations did not respond to requests for comment | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-aids-lgbt-trfn/i-was-waiting-to-die-in-russia-hiv-migrants-fear-death-and-deportation-idUSKBN20T01I | 2020-03-06 |
| That same year Timur was abducted and beaten by a gang near Moscow | Neutral | Russias ministry of health which supervises the ban on HIV positive migrants and the interior ministry which is responsible for deportations did not respond to requests for comment | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-aids-lgbt-trfn/i-was-waiting-to-die-in-russia-hiv-migrants-fear-death-and-deportation-idUSKBN20T01I | 2020-03-06 |
| MOSCOW Turkey and Russia agreed to establish a secure corridor along a key eastwest highway in Syrias Idlib and hold joint patrols on it as of March 15 the two sides said in a statement after talks in Moscow on Thursday to ease tensions in the region | Positive | MOSCOW Turkey and Russia agreed to establish a secure corridor along a key eastwest highway in Syrias Idlib and hold joint patrols on it as of March 15 the two sides said in a statement after talks in Moscow on Thursday to ease tensions in the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-russia-agree-secure-corridor-and-joint-patrols-in-syrias-idlib-idUSKBN20S2E3 | 2020-03-06 |
| MOSCOW Russia is fiscally prepared to cope with a drop in oil prices Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday as OPEC tries to convince Moscow to support the market with a deeper output cut in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | MOSCOW Russia is fiscally prepared to cope with a drop in oil prices Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday as OPEC tries to convince Moscow to support the market with a deeper output cut in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia/russia-can-cope-with-oil-price-drop-if-no-opec-cut-agreed-finance-minister-idUSKBN20S1OU | 2020-03-06 |
| There will be a flurry of high level calls between Moscow Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to get the deal done | Positive | SINGAPORE Oil slid nearly on Friday as worries about global oil demand and economic growth slowdown caused by the coronavirus outbreak were heightened by concern over nonOPEC crude producers not yet having agreed to cut output further to support prices | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-slips-amid-demand-concern-fears-over-opec-deal-for-deeper-output-cuts-idUSKBN20T090 | 2020-03-06 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he had agreed a deal with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at talks in Moscow that he hoped would lead to a halt of military action in Syrias Idlib province | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he had agreed a deal with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at talks in Moscow that he hoped would lead to a halt of military action in Syrias Idlib province | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-putin-ceasefire/russias-putin-says-agreed-deal-with-turkeys-erdogan-that-lays-ground-for-syria-ceasefire-idUSKBN20S2BZ | 2020-03-06 |
| But two OPEC sources said Riyadh did not want to carry most of the burden of cuts alone and was pressing Moscow to join in with a proper contribution | Positive | VIENNA Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members struggled on Wednesday to win support from Russia to join them in additional oil output cuts in a bid to prop up prices which have tumbled by a fifth this year because of the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-opec-meeting/opec-struggles-to-win-russian-backing-for-big-oil-cut-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN20R16P | 2020-03-05 |
| But Russia appears to be reinforcing Syria at its fastest rate since October when U.S. forces withdrew from some parts of Syria and Moscow scrambled to fill the vacuum | Negative | Russia is racing to reinforce its troops in Syria by sea and air before talks between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Moscow on Thursday flight data and shipping movements show | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-reinforces-syria-before-putin-erdogan-talks-flight-and-shipping-data-idUSKBN20R2QP | 2020-03-05 |
| Konashenkov in his statement accused Turkey of failing to meet its obligations under agreements on Idlib with Moscow and of helping antiAssad rebel forces instead | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday that fortified rebel positions in Syrias Idlib province had merged with Turkish observation posts and that artillery attacks on nearby civilian areas and Russias air base in Syria had become daily | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/russia-says-rebel-positions-in-syrias-idlib-have-merged-with-turkish-army-posts-idUSKBN20R0HA | 2020-03-05 |
| One person who has worked closely with Russian forces in Syria said Moscows reinforcement effort was meant to send Ankara a message and was a show of | Negative | Russia is racing to reinforce its troops in Syria by sea and air before talks between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Moscow on Thursday flight data and shipping movements show | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-reinforces-syria-before-putin-erdogan-talks-flight-and-shipping-data-idUSKBN20R2QP | 2020-03-05 |
| There was no immediate response from Turkey which has traded blame with Moscow over the upsurge in violence in Idlib | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday that fortified rebel positions in Syrias Idlib province had merged with Turkish observation posts and that artillery attacks on nearby civilian areas and Russias air base in Syria had become daily | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/russia-says-rebel-positions-in-syrias-idlib-have-merged-with-turkish-army-posts-idUSKBN20R0HA | 2020-03-05 |
| Russia is conducting a serious buildup near said a Turkish security official who added that Moscow had also stepped up its logistical support for the Syrian army | Negative | Russia is racing to reinforce its troops in Syria by sea and air before talks between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Moscow on Thursday flight data and shipping movements show | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-reinforces-syria-before-putin-erdogan-talks-flight-and-shipping-data-idUSKBN20R2QP | 2020-03-05 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Wednesday it hoped Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan would be able to agree on a set of joint measures for the Syrian province of Idlib when they meet for talks in Moscow on Thursday | Positive | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Wednesday it hoped Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan would be able to agree on a set of joint measures for the Syrian province of Idlib when they meet for talks in Moscow on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey-kremlin/kremlin-hopes-putin-erdogan-can-agree-joint-measures-at-syria-talks-idUSKBN20R19L | 2020-03-05 |
| At those levels oil prices are too low for many OPEC states to balance their budgets although Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the level was acceptable for Moscow | Negative | VIENNA Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members struggled on Wednesday to win support from Russia to join them in additional oil output cuts in a bid to prop up prices which have tumbled by a fifth this year because of the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-opec-meeting/opec-struggles-to-win-russian-backing-for-big-oil-cut-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN20R16P | 2020-03-05 |
| BERLIN Germany has close economic ties with Russia and could use this leverage to pressure President Vladimir Putin over Moscows involvement in Syria its defense minister said on Wednesday | Positive | BERLIN Germany has close economic ties with Russia and could use this leverage to pressure President Vladimir Putin over Moscows involvement in Syria its defense minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-germany/german-minister-moots-sanctions-on-russia-over-syria-idUSKBN20R131 | 2020-03-05 |
| Russia is racing to reinforce its troops in Syria by sea and air before talks between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Moscow on Thursday flight data and shipping movements show | Negative | Russia is racing to reinforce its troops in Syria by sea and air before talks between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Moscow on Thursday flight data and shipping movements show | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-reinforces-syria-before-putin-erdogan-talks-flight-and-shipping-data-idUSKBN20R2QP | 2020-03-05 |
| Russia is also a member of JTC suggesting Moscow might also be leaning toward larger cuts | Negative | VIENNA A panel of OPEC and its allies recommended cutting oil output by an extra 1 million barrels per day on Tuesday signaling that Russia and Saudi Arabia were moving closer to a deal to prop up prices which have been hit by the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-meeting/opec-russia-moving-closer-to-big-oil-cut-as-coronavirus-hits-demand-idUSKBN20Q16B | 2020-03-04 |
| At that level many OPEC states will struggle to balance their budgets although President Vladimir Putin has said that the current price was acceptable to Moscow | Negative | VIENNA A panel of OPEC and its allies recommended cutting oil output by an extra 1 million barrels per day on Tuesday signaling that Russia and Saudi Arabia were moving closer to a deal to prop up prices which have been hit by the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-meeting/opec-russia-moving-closer-to-big-oil-cut-as-coronavirus-hits-demand-idUSKBN20Q16B | 2020-03-04 |
| Erdogan wants a 30 mile deep zone Moscow has been offering an 8 mile Frolov told Reuters predicting that the two leaders might split the difference | Positive | Escalating military action by Russia and Turkey in Idlib risks a direct confrontation between the two major foreign powers in Syrias war days ahead of a summit of their leaders to hammer out a deal to halt the fighting | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/escalating-idlib-battle-raises-risk-of-direct-russia-turkey-clash-idUSKBN20Q217 | 2020-03-04 |
| The investigation was opened last August after Navalny called on people to attend rallies that grew into Moscows biggest sustained protest movement in years before fizzling out | Positive | MOSCOW Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday accused Russian authorities of emptying and blocking his bank accounts and those of his close family a move he said was unfair and aimed at strangling him and his supporters financially | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/putin-critic-navalny-accuses-russia-of-emptying-and-freezing-his-bank-accounts-idUSKBN20Q26C | 2020-03-04 |
| MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin wants to amend the constitution to make it illegal for Russia to give away any part of its territory to a foreign power a proposal likely to irritate Japan and Ukraine that have territorial disputes with Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin wants to amend the constitution to make it illegal for Russia to give away any part of its territory to a foreign power a proposal likely to irritate Japan and Ukraine that have territorial disputes with Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-russia-putin-territory/putin-wants-constitutional-ban-on-russia-handing-land-to-foreign-powers-idUSKBN20Q1DE | 2020-03-04 |
| On Sunday Putin indicated he favoured joint action but underlined that the current oil price level was acceptable to Moscow signalling that Russias input may be limited | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia is evaluating an earlier and smaller oil production cut proposal made by OPEC and its allies energy minister Alexander Novak said adding it had not received one for deeper cuts | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia/novak-says-russia-evaluating-earlier-smaller-cut-proposal-by-opec-and-allies-idUSKBN20P1IE | 2020-03-03 |
| Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are due to meet in Moscow on Thursday to seek agreement on Idlib | Positive | Syrian government forces entered parts of a strategic rebelheld town on Monday and Turkey said it would keep hitting President Bashar alAssads troops after ramping up operations in its biggest intervention yet into the Syrian civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/syrian-government-forces-re-enter-strategic-town-turkey-vows-to-keep-up-strikes-idUSKBN20P170 | 2020-03-03 |
| Turkey has insisted it seeks no conflict with Moscow but its barrage of strikes on the Russianbacked forces around Idlib have raised the risk of a direct confrontation | Negative | Syrian government forces entered parts of a strategic rebelheld town on Monday and Turkey said it would keep hitting President Bashar alAssads troops after ramping up operations in its biggest intervention yet into the Syrian civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/syrian-government-forces-re-enter-strategic-town-turkey-vows-to-keep-up-strikes-idUSKBN20P170 | 2020-03-03 |
| MOSCOW The Kremlin hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks in Moscow on March 5 or March 6 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday Interfax news agency reported | Positive | MOSCOW The Kremlin hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks in Moscow on March 5 or March 6 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday Interfax news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-turkey-talks-kremlin/kremlin-hopes-for-putin-erdogan-meeting-in-moscow-in-early-march-idUSKBN20O1VP | 2020-03-02 |
| The call was echoed by a representative of the U.S. embassy in Moscow earlier this week during a visit by foreign diplomats to Nemtsovs memorial | Positive | MOSCOW Thousands of people gathered in Moscow on Saturday to mark five years since the murder of prominent Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov joining a march that organizers said was also a protest against planned changes to Russias constitution | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-protests/russian-march-combines-tribute-for-opposition-leader-with-putin-protest-idUSKBN20N0JW | 2020-03-01 |
| MOSCOW Russia and Turkey will discuss all aspects of the Syrian conflict at talks in Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron during a phone call the Kremlin said on Saturday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia and Turkey will discuss all aspects of the Syrian conflict at talks in Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron during a phone call the Kremlin said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-france-iran/russia-turkey-set-to-discuss-syria-conflict-kremlin-idUSKBN20N0ZS | 2020-03-01 |
| MOSCOW Katerina Tikhonova the youngest daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University her fund said on Friday | Positive | MOSCOW Katerina Tikhonova the youngest daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University her fund said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-daughter/putins-youngest-daughter-to-run-artificial-intelligence-institute-idUSKCN20M2RU | 2020-02-29 |
| MOSCOW A Boeing777 passenger plane en route to Bangkok with more than 200 people on board has been forced to fly back to Moscows Sheremetyevo airport because of a cracked cockpit window the TASS news agency cited emergency services as saying on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW A Boeing777 passenger plane en route to Bangkok with more than 200 people on board has been forced to fly back to Moscows Sheremetyevo airport because of a cracked cockpit window the TASS news agency cited emergency services as saying on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-airplane-crack/cracked-window-forces-passenger-plane-to-fly-back-to-moscow-airport-tass-idUSKCN20M0XQ | 2020-02-29 |
| Seagal is a U.S. national living in Moscow the SEC said | Negative | WASHINGTON Steven Seagal the star of action movies including Above the and Out for has agreed to pay to resolve charges of unlawfully a cryptocurrency offering the U.S. securities regulator said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-seagal/u-s-sec-out-for-justice-over-steven-seagals-cryptocurrency-marketing-idUSKCN20L284 | 2020-02-28 |
| Mueller documented Russian election interference but found insufficient evidence to demonstrate a criminal conspiracy between Trumps campaign team and Moscow | Negative | WASHINGTON A federal judge is weighing civil contempt charges against a Russian company accused of funding a Russian troll farms interference in the 2016 U.S. election to boost President Donald Trumps candidacy after prosecutors accused the St | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-concord/u-s-judge-mulls-holding-russian-firm-linked-to-election-meddling-in-contempt-idUSKCN20L365 | 2020-02-28 |
| MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin inspected Russias answer to Disneyland on Thursday the countrys first largescale indoor theme park which Moscow says will be the biggest of its kind in Europe when it opens on Saturday | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin inspected Russias answer to Disneyland on Thursday the countrys first largescale indoor theme park which Moscow says will be the biggest of its kind in Europe when it opens on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-dream-island/vladimir-putin-inspects-russias-answer-to-disneyland-before-grand-opening-idUSKCN20L2JS | 2020-02-28 |
| But Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin defended the measures on Thursday and urged the Chinese embassy to encourage its citizens in Moscow to comply with the quarantine measures | Negative | MOSCOW Moscows mayor has asked China to respect the measures the city is taking to prevent the spread of the coronavirus after Chinas embassy complained about disproportionate and discriminatory action against Chinese nationals | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-moscow/moscow-asks-china-to-respect-its-coronavirus-curbs-after-discrimination-complaint-idUSKCN20L2AY | 2020-02-28 |
| The vehicle which was stopped on Saturday in western Moscow was towed away wrapped in tape and black plastic footage released by police showed | Positive | MOSCOW A wouldbe Russian superhero returned to reality with a bump when police pulled him over as he drove a replica Batmobile through Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-police-batmobile/its-a-wrap-russian-batmobile-towed-away-in-plastic-after-city-jaunt-idUSKCN20K2C9 | 2020-02-27 |
| The vehicle was too wide for the citys streets and had not been certified as roadworthy a Moscow interior ministry spokesman said late on Tuesday | Neutral | MOSCOW A wouldbe Russian superhero returned to reality with a bump when police pulled him over as he drove a replica Batmobile through Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-police-batmobile/its-a-wrap-russian-batmobile-towed-away-in-plastic-after-city-jaunt-idUSKCN20K2C9 | 2020-02-27 |
| Flights arriving from South Korea and Iran will be routed through a separate terminal at Moscows Sheremetyevo airport that is also currently being used for China flights she said | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday it would suspend flights to and from South Korea from March 1 to prevent the spread of coronavirus except those operated by national carrier Aeroflot and a subsidiary Aurora | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-restrictions/russia-suspends-some-south-korea-flights-iranian-visas-over-coronavirus-idUSKCN20K21H | 2020-02-27 |
| The Republican president stung by lingering claims his last campaign may have cooperated with Moscow is reported to be pressing for changes | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday reacted skeptically to the Trump administrations request to continue a controversial but inactive domestic surveillance program that collects data on U.S. phone calls and text messages | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-surveillance/republicans-look-to-drop-domestic-spying-on-u-s-phones-texts-idUSKBN20J2M1 | 2020-02-26 |
| U.S. law allows the administration to propose sanctions on Moscow in response to election interference | Negative | WASHINGTON Senior U.S. Democrats said on Monday that President Donald Trumps administration should immediately impose sanctions on Russia after U.S. intelligence officials told members of Congress that Russia appeared to be trying to influence this years U.S. election | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate/u-s-democrats-want-russia-sanctions-over-2020-election-interference-idUSKCN20I2OH | 2020-02-25 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish soldier was killed in Syrias Idlib region in a bomb attack by Russianbacked government forces the defence ministry said on Saturday Turkeys 16th military death during a month in which talks between Ankara and Moscow have stalled | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish soldier was killed in Syrias Idlib region in a bomb attack by Russianbacked government forces the defence ministry said on Saturday Turkeys 16th military death during a month in which talks between Ankara and Moscow have stalled | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/syrian-bomb-kills-16th-turkish-soldier-this-month-in-idlib-idUSKCN20G0ME | 2020-02-23 |
| The United Nations warned on Friday that fighting in northwest Syria could end in a and called again for a ceasefire while Moscow denied reports of a mass flight of civilians from a Russianled Syrian government offensive | Negative | The United Nations warned on Friday that fighting in northwest Syria could end in a and called again for a ceasefire while Moscow denied reports of a mass flight of civilians from a Russianled Syrian government offensive | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/u-n-says-it-fears-bloodbath-in-northwest-syria-fighting-idUSKBN20F1VH | 2020-02-22 |
| MINSK Russia has proposed new terms for future oil supplies to Belarus to partially compensate Minsk for the cost of taxes introduced last year Moscow said on Friday in a sign of potential progress in a twomonth row between the two countries | Positive | MINSK Russia has proposed new terms for future oil supplies to Belarus to partially compensate Minsk for the cost of taxes introduced last year Moscow said on Friday in a sign of potential progress in a twomonth row between the two countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-oil-russia/russia-makes-new-proposal-to-belarus-for-oil-supply-terms-idUSKBN20F1FO | 2020-02-22 |
| VEGAS Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders warned Russia on Friday to stay out of 2020 White House elections after U.S. officials had told him Moscow was trying to aid his campaign | Negative | VEGAS Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders warned Russia on Friday to stay out of 2020 White House elections after U.S. officials had told him Moscow was trying to aid his campaign | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/sanders-blasts-russia-for-reportedly-trying-to-boost-his-presidential-campaign-idUSKBN20F01B | 2020-02-22 |
| Stones case was one of several that sprang from an investigation by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller that documented Moscows campaign of hacking and online propaganda to boost Trumps candidacy | Negative | A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Roger Stone President Donald Trumps longtime friend and adviser to three years and four months in prison for his conviction on charges including lying to a congressional committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-factbox/factbox-stone-is-one-of-dozens-ensnared-in-trump-russia-probe-idUSKBN20E1EG | 2020-02-21 |
| Akar said Turkey would not accept any Russian proposals to move its observation posts in Idlib but added that talks with Moscow had not reached an impasse | Negative | AZAZ Turkish forces and Syrian rebels fought government troops in northwest Syria on Thursday and Russian warplanes struck back in a sharp escalation of an intense battle over the last rebel bastions Russian and Turkish officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/flare-up-in-fighting-in-northwest-syria-pulls-in-russian-turkish-forces-idUSKBN20E191 | 2020-02-21 |
| But 62yearold Tatiana strolling through the citys botanical gardens said she was unsure about the cause of Moscows winter meltdown | Negative | MOSCOW Inured to interminable winters Muscovites have been stunned this year by springlike temperatures and virtually snowfree sidewalks after the Russian capital recorded its warmest January in history | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-weather/moscow-meltdown-russian-capital-has-warmest-january-as-experts-point-to-global-warming-idUSKBN20E2GD | 2020-02-21 |
| MOSCOW Russia and Turkey failed to reach an agreement at talks in Moscow aimed at easing tensions over the Syrian province of Idlib Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday | Negative | MOSCOW Russia and Turkey failed to reach an agreement at talks in Moscow aimed at easing tensions over the Syrian province of Idlib Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-talks/russia-and-turkey-failed-to-reach-agreement-at-syria-talks-lavrov-idUSKBN20D18U | 2020-02-20 |
| It was unclear when Ankara and Moscow might resume talks | Positive | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was now a matter of after talks with Russia failed to halt the assault | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/turkey-edges-towards-direct-conflict-with-russian-backed-syria-idUSKBN20D1KL | 2020-02-20 |
| MOSCOW Russia and Turkey on Tuesday reiterated their commitment to existing agreements on Syrias Idlib which seek to reduce tensions in the region the Russian Foreign Ministry said after a meeting in Moscow | Positive | MOSCOW Russia and Turkey on Tuesday reiterated their commitment to existing agreements on Syrias Idlib which seek to reduce tensions in the region the Russian Foreign Ministry said after a meeting in Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey-meeting/russia-and-turkey-remain-committed-to-reducing-syria-tensions-russian-ministry-idUSKBN20C25U | 2020-02-19 |
| The decree was issued a week after the Kremlin said a senior Ukrainianborn Russian official Dmitry Kozak was now in charge of managing Moscows relations with Ukraine effectively sidelining Surkov | Neutral | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday dismissed a veteran once close adviser who until recently managed Moscows relations with wartorn Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-kremlin/putin-sacks-prominent-kremlin-ideologue-ukraine-hardliner-idUSKBN20C2HD | 2020-02-19 |
| MOSCOW Turkey told Russia on Tuesday that its military was now ready to make sure that Russianbacked Syrian forces pull out from the last rebel bastion in northwest Syria as the two sides met for talks in Moscow | Negative | MOSCOW Turkey told Russia on Tuesday that its military was now ready to make sure that Russianbacked Syrian forces pull out from the last rebel bastion in northwest Syria as the two sides met for talks in Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-turkey/turkey-tells-russia-that-syrian-forces-in-rebel-bastion-must-pull-back-idUSKBN20C1HG | 2020-02-19 |
| ANKARA Turkey will deploy more troops to Syrias Idlib region and retaliate against attacks by government forces there even as Ankara continues to discuss the situation with Moscow Turkish Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Tuesday | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will deploy more troops to Syrias Idlib region and retaliate against attacks by government forces there even as Ankara continues to discuss the situation with Moscow Turkish Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-to-send-more-troops-to-syria-even-as-moscow-talks-continue-idUSKBN20C27M | 2020-02-19 |
| The offensive has also upset the fragile cooperation between Ankara and Moscow which back opposing factions in the conflict | Negative | The Syrian army said on Monday it had taken full control of dozens of towns in Aleppos northwestern countryside and it would press on with its campaign to wipe out militant groups wherever they are | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security/syrian-forces-consolidate-control-of-aleppo-air-strikes-under-way-idUSKBN20B0XB | 2020-02-18 |
| This month it approved a new dividend policy and a new 2024 strategy adding it was exploring various options for entering equity markets including a potential equity offering on Moscow Exchange | Positive | The company has already hired banks to organize the potential deal the sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-chelpipe-spo/russias-chelpipe-prepares-for-share-offering-in-moscow-sources-idUSKBN20B221 | 2020-02-18 |
| Germany expelled two Russian diplomats in December over what it said was Moscows refusal to cooperate in the investigation | Negative | MOSCOW Russias FSB security service planned and organized the murder of a Georgian man in Berlin last summer a killing that triggered diplomatic expulsions from Germany and Moscow the investigative website Bellingcat said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-germany-georgia-russia/russian-spy-agency-played-role-in-berlin-murder-of-georgian-man-bellingcat-idUSKBN20B1FX | 2020-02-18 |
| Putin called Khangoshvili a cruel and bloodthirsty saying the murdered man had fought on the side of antiMoscow separatists in Russias mainly Muslim north Caucasus region | Negative | MOSCOW Russias FSB security service planned and organized the murder of a Georgian man in Berlin last summer a killing that triggered diplomatic expulsions from Germany and Moscow the investigative website Bellingcat said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-germany-georgia-russia/russian-spy-agency-played-role-in-berlin-murder-of-georgian-man-bellingcat-idUSKBN20B1FX | 2020-02-18 |
| Speaking to reporters during a briefing at the Munich Security Conference he added that Turkish and Russian officials would discuss the issue in Moscow on Monday | Positive | Syrian government forces made significant advances on Sunday in the countrys northwestern Aleppo province seizing most of the rebelheld region state media said a day before a new round of talks between Turkey and Russia on the escalation in the area | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/syrian-forces-seize-most-of-aleppo-province-on-eve-of-turkey-russia-talks-idUSKBN20A0EZ | 2020-02-17 |
| ISTANBUL A Russian artist unveiled four giant paintings of Russias President Vladimir Putin in central Istanbul on Saturday saying he wanted to show the good ties between Ankara and Moscow despite differences over Syria and other issues | Negative | ISTANBUL A Russian artist unveiled four giant paintings of Russias President Vladimir Putin in central Istanbul on Saturday saying he wanted to show the good ties between Ankara and Moscow despite differences over Syria and other issues | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-artist/russian-artist-unveils-putin-superhero-paintings-in-istanbul-idUSKBN2090RE | 2020-02-16 |
| ANKARA Turkey will not remain silent while Syrian government forces surround Turkish military posts in Syrias Idlib region President Tayyip Erdogan said in comments reported by NTV as Ankara and Moscow trade barbs over the escalating conflict | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will not remain silent while Syrian government forces surround Turkish military posts in Syrias Idlib region President Tayyip Erdogan said in comments reported by NTV as Ankara and Moscow trade barbs over the escalating conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-wont-be-silent-as-syrian-government-surrounds-turkish-posts-erdogan-idUSKBN2090LR | 2020-02-16 |
| MUNICH French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that Europes policy of defiance towards Russia in recent years had failed and as nobody wanted to confront Moscow directly the only option was to have a closer dialogue to resolve differences | Negative | MUNICH French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that Europes policy of defiance towards Russia in recent years had failed and as nobody wanted to confront Moscow directly the only option was to have a closer dialogue to resolve differences | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-germany-security-macron-russia/macron-defends-closer-dialogue-with-russia-sees-no-alternative-idUSKBN2090CT | 2020-02-16 |
| MOSCOW Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday that differences over Syria should not affect Ankaras relations with Moscow or disrupt its contract for the purchase of Russian S400 missile defenses Russian news agencies reported | Negative | MOSCOW Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday that differences over Syria should not affect Ankaras relations with Moscow or disrupt its contract for the purchase of Russian S400 missile defenses Russian news agencies reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-turkey-arms/turkey-says-syria-dispute-wont-affect-russian-s-400-defense-deal-idUSKBN2090IZ | 2020-02-16 |
| Cavusoglu also had talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Munich on Saturday the first ministerial level meeting between Ankara and Moscow since the situation deteriorated in Idlib | Positive | Turkey dismissed on Saturday Russian accusations that it has flouted deescalation agreements with Russia and Iran in Syrias Idlib province and threatened to take military action in the area if diplomatic efforts with Moscow fail | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-denies-flouting-agreement-with-russia-in-syrias-idlib-province-idUSKBN209092 | 2020-02-16 |
| MOSCOW Russia said on Friday it had asked Canada to hand over case files on a 95yearold former Nazi death squad member living in Canada to help Moscow with an investigation into the mass murder of children at a Soviet orphanage in 1942 | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Friday it had asked Canada to hand over case files on a 95yearold former Nazi death squad member living in Canada to help Moscow with an investigation into the mass murder of children at a Soviet orphanage in 1942 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-canada-nazi/russia-asks-canada-to-hand-over-files-on-ex-nazi-death-squad-member-idUSKBN20817Y | 2020-02-15 |
| Another factor in Russias decision is a disagreement with Belarus under which Moscow has halted its 240000 bpd supply of oil to its neighbour | Negative | MOSCOW A growing oil glut in Russia and the promise of a flood of dollars from the sale of a leading bank are strengthening the case for Russia to cut oil output in tandem with OPEC oil sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia-sberbank/oil-glut-stronger-rouble-strengthen-case-for-russia-to-cut-oil-output-sources-idUSKBN2081Z8 | 2020-02-15 |
| MINSK Belarus threatened to siphon off oil from Russias transit pipeline to Europe unless Moscow restarted crude supplies and accused the Kremlin on Friday of using energy prices as leverage to try to swallow up its former Soviet neighbor | Negative | MINSK Belarus threatened to siphon off oil from Russias transit pipeline to Europe unless Moscow restarted crude supplies and accused the Kremlin on Friday of using energy prices as leverage to try to swallow up its former Soviet neighbor | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-oil-lukashenko/belarus-to-russia-well-siphon-off-your-transit-oil-to-europe-if-necessary-idUSKBN20823P | 2020-02-15 |
| The oil dispute is part of wider political discord between Moscow and Minsk over setting up a unified state plans for which were originally announced in the 1990s | Negative | MINSK Belarus threatened to siphon off oil from Russias transit pipeline to Europe unless Moscow restarted crude supplies and accused the Kremlin on Friday of using energy prices as leverage to try to swallow up its former Soviet neighbor | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-oil-lukashenko/belarus-to-russia-well-siphon-off-your-transit-oil-to-europe-if-necessary-idUSKBN20823P | 2020-02-15 |
| Washington has also sought to emphasize Moscow and Ankaras divergent goals not just in Syria but also in the Libyan conflict where the two countries also support opposing sides | Negative | ISTANBUL Strains between Turkey and Russia over the escalating Syrian offensive in Idlib appear not to have shaken Turkish plans to deploy Russian missile defense systems a senior U.S. official said on Friday despite a threat of U.S sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa/syria-tensions-unlikely-to-shake-turkeys-russian-missile-plans-u-s-official-idUSKBN2081TJ | 2020-02-15 |
| WASHINGTON The United States on Friday renewed pressure on China to join nuclear arms control talks with Washington and Moscow seeking to overcome Beijings longstanding opposition to entering such a dialogue | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States on Friday renewed pressure on China to join nuclear arms control talks with Washington and Moscow seeking to overcome Beijings longstanding opposition to entering such a dialogue | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-trump-china/u-s-renews-pressure-on-china-to-join-nuclear-talks-idUSKBN2082LG | 2020-02-15 |
| WARSAW Polands prime minister said he wants to visit Russia to commemorate the victims of a World War Two massacre and 2010 plane crash amid heightened tensions with Moscow after recent comments by Vladimir Putin about Polands historical role | Negative | WARSAW Polands prime minister said he wants to visit Russia to commemorate the victims of a World War Two massacre and 2010 plane crash amid heightened tensions with Moscow after recent comments by Vladimir Putin about Polands historical role | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-poland-russia-anniversary/polish-pm-seeks-visit-to-russia-for-plane-crash-and-katyn-anniversaries-idUSKBN2072DI | 2020-02-14 |
| Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said his NATOmember military would strike Russiabacked Syrian forces if another Turkish soldier was hurt and he blamed Moscow for targeting civilians | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will use force against rebel groups violating a ceasefire in Syrias northwest Idlib region Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday in an apparent response to Russian criticism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-says-it-will-hit-groups-violating-idlib-ceasefire-idUSKBN2071KR | 2020-02-14 |
| MOSCOW Most Russian oil companies want OPECs global output curbs to remain in place for one more quarter but Moscow has still not made a final decision on a possible new deal with OPEC and its allies a senior Lukoil official said on Wednesday | Positive | MOSCOW Most Russian oil companies want OPECs global output curbs to remain in place for one more quarter but Moscow has still not made a final decision on a possible new deal with OPEC and its allies a senior Lukoil official said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia-companies/most-russian-oil-firms-want-opec-deal-extended-into-second-quarter-lukoil-idUSKBN2062B7 | 2020-02-13 |
| The case had drawn little media attention until Sviridov shot himself shortly after the verdict was handed down at Moscows Chertanovo District court on Wednesday afternoon | Negative | MOSCOW A former top Russian prison official reportedly suffering from advanced cancer killed himself in court with a shot to the chest on Wednesday shortly after getting a threeyear sentence for extortion Russian news agencies reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-court/russian-ex-prison-official-jailed-for-extortion-kills-himself-in-court-idUSKBN2062AS | 2020-02-13 |
| Wary of a confrontation with Turkey that could suck Moscow into a military quagmire Russia is likely to take a gradual approach to helping the Syrian government capture the last rebel bastion of Idlib analysts and diplomats say | Negative | Wary of a confrontation with Turkey that could suck Moscow into a military quagmire Russia is likely to take a gradual approach to helping the Syrian government capture the last rebel bastion of Idlib analysts and diplomats say | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security-idlib/russia-holds-key-to-idlibs-fate-as-syrian-army-advances-idUSKBN20128W | 2020-02-08 |
| U.S. businesses have generally steered clear Russia since western sanctions were imposed on some Russian individuals companies and banks after Moscows annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 | Negative | MOSCOW Russias state gas company Gazprom has opened accounts at U.S. bank JP Morgans Russian branch Interfax news agency said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-gazprom-jp-morgan/gazprom-opens-accounts-at-jp-morgans-russian-branch-ifax-idUSKBN2011O2 | 2020-02-08 |
| ANKARA Turkey expects Russia to stop the Syrian governments attacks in the northwestern region of Idlib immediately Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday adding that Ankara needs to work with Moscow to resolve problems in the region | Negative | ANKARA Turkey expects Russia to stop the Syrian governments attacks in the northwestern region of Idlib immediately Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday adding that Ankara needs to work with Moscow to resolve problems in the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-says-russia-must-immediately-stop-syrian-attacks-in-idlib-idUSKBN2000ZW | 2020-02-07 |
| The competition in Varna is among the most prestigious ballet events alongside those held in Moscow Helsinki and Jackson Mississippi | Positive | SOFIA The 29th edition of the Varna International Ballet Competition the oldest ballet competition in the world has been postponed due to insufficient financial support organisers said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bulgaria-ballet/2020-ballet-olympiade-in-varna-postponed-due-to-lack-of-funding-idUSKBN2002FZ | 2020-02-07 |
| On Wednesday President Vladimir Putin held a ceremony at the Kremlin to welcome 23 new foreign ambassadors to Moscow including Washingtons new envoy John Sullivan | Positive | MOSCOW Russia is alarmed by the U.S. Navys decision to deploy lowyield nuclear missiles on submarines since they heighten the risk of a limited nuclear war a Russian official said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-nuclear-russia/russia-says-alarmed-by-u-s-deployment-of-low-yield-nuclear-missiles-idUSKBN1ZZ27Y | 2020-02-06 |
| Russia has suspended direct passenger trains and commercial flights from China except for some being routed through a separate terminal in Moscow to make screening passengers easier | Negative | MOSCOW Scores of Russians began two weeks of quarantine and coronavirus tests in a camp in Siberia on Wednesday after being flown home from Chinas Wuhan the city at the epicenter of an outbreak of the fastspreading disease | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-evacuation/russians-start-two-week-virus-quarantine-after-return-from-wuhan-idUSKBN1ZZ112 | 2020-02-06 |
| President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey and Russia should resolve differences over the conflict in Syrias Idlib without anger after a deadly flareup in violence challenged the fragile cooperation between Moscow and Ankara | Negative | President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey and Russia should resolve differences over the conflict in Syrias Idlib without anger after a deadly flareup in violence challenged the fragile cooperation between Moscow and Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-russia-can-tackle-syria-escalation-without-anger-erdogan-idUSKBN1ZY1PI | 2020-02-05 |
| The proposals will be discussed until June 1 and the public should also take part in the debate the churchs Moscow branch said | Positive | MOSCOW Russian priests should refrain from the practice of blessing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction that can inflict indiscriminate loss of life according to new guidelines being discussed by the Russian Orthodox Church | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-church/russian-priests-should-stop-blessing-nukes-church-proposal-idUSKBN1ZY2H6 | 2020-02-05 |
| Akar was also quoted as saying Turkeys armed forces had taken all forms of in Idlib adding that Ankara had informed Moscow which backs Syrian President Bashar alAssad | Negative | ANKARA Turkish forces hit 54 targets in Syrias northwestern region of Idlib and 76 Syrian government soldiers Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was cited as saying by the stateowned Anadolu news agency on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-target/turkey-says-hit-54-targets-in-syrias-idlib-neutralized-76-soldiers-anadolu-idUSKBN1ZX27E | 2020-02-04 |
| Turkey said on Monday its military hit dozens of Syrian government targets after eight Turkish military personnel were killed by shelling in Idlib in northwest Syria where fighting threatens to test ties between Ankara and Moscow | Negative | Turkey said on Monday its military hit dozens of Syrian government targets after eight Turkish military personnel were killed by shelling in Idlib in northwest Syria where fighting threatens to test ties between Ankara and Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-hits-back-after-syrian-shells-kill-turkish-troops-idUSKBN1ZX0EQ | 2020-02-04 |
| Moscow has already restricted direct flights to China its largest trade partner and the remaining flights are being routed through a separate terminal at Moscows Sheremetyevo International Airport | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Monday it may deport foreigners who test positive for coronavirus as Russian military planes flew in to evacuate its citizens from the Chinese province at the epicenter of the outbreak which has killed 361 people | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia/russia-may-deport-foreigners-with-coronavirus-halts-trains-to-china-idUSKBN1ZX0MC | 2020-02-04 |
| She said the restrictions would not however apply to Moscows Sheremetyevo airport the capitals main international airport | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will from Tuesday temporarily restrict the entry of foreigners arriving from China due to the coronavirus Russias Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-flights/russia-to-restrict-foreign-arrivals-from-china-over-virus-fears-deputy-pm-idUSKBN1ZX1RL | 2020-02-04 |
| In July 2017 two littleknown Democrats in the House of Representatives make the first attempt to impeach Trump basing it on investigations into Moscows interference in the 2016 U.S. elections | Negative | WASHINGTON Barring a dramatic development President Donald Trump appears almost certain to be acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-timeline/the-long-road-to-trumps-impeachment-and-trial-idUSKBN1ZU2NW | 2020-02-02 |
| The companys software is now working in 105000 cameras at entrances to buildings in Moscow alone a source told Reuters | Neutral | MOSCOW A court on Friday will hear a legal challenge to Moscows rollout of facial recognition technology over privacy fears after the final piece of its video surveillance jigsaw fell into place with the awarding of a software contract last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-technology-facialrecognition/moscow-court-case-challenges-citys-facial-recognition-use-after-launch-idUSKBN1ZU1HJ | 2020-02-01 |
| Russias minor Ikar airline will also continue its flights between Moscow and China the airport said | Positive | MOSCOW Russia reported its first two cases of coronavirus on Friday and restricted direct flights to China its biggest trade partner as Russians complained of rising prices for medical masks and antivirus medicine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-case/russia-reports-first-coronavirus-cases-restricts-china-air-travel-idUSKBN1ZU1RM | 2020-02-01 |
| Rail freight is continuing to circulate between the two countries direct daily flights are continuing and a passenger train that operates between Moscow and Beijing remains in service | Negative | MOSCOW Russias consumer health watchdog advised people on Friday to refrain from greeting each other with handshakes kisses or hugs and to wear medical masks in crowded public places to try to stop Chinas virus outbreak spreading to Russia | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-kissing/no-kissing-or-hugging-watchdog-advises-russians-amid-virus-fears-idUSKBN1ZU17D | 2020-02-01 |
| MOSCOW A court on Friday will hear a legal challenge to Moscows rollout of facial recognition technology over privacy fears after the final piece of its video surveillance jigsaw fell into place with the awarding of a software contract last month | Negative | MOSCOW A court on Friday will hear a legal challenge to Moscows rollout of facial recognition technology over privacy fears after the final piece of its video surveillance jigsaw fell into place with the awarding of a software contract last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-technology-facialrecognition/moscow-court-case-challenges-citys-facial-recognition-use-after-launch-idUSKBN1ZU1HJ | 2020-02-01 |
| It is Popovas second attempt to ban facial recognition technology in Moscow after a November lawsuit was dismissed | Negative | MOSCOW A court on Friday will hear a legal challenge to Moscows rollout of facial recognition technology over privacy fears after the final piece of its video surveillance jigsaw fell into place with the awarding of a software contract last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-technology-facialrecognition/moscow-court-case-challenges-citys-facial-recognition-use-after-launch-idUSKBN1ZU1HJ | 2020-02-01 |
| Popova was fined for appearing at a protest in Moscow in 2018 but she alleged that the authorities only established her identity using facial recognition technology | Negative | MOSCOW A court on Friday will hear a legal challenge to Moscows rollout of facial recognition technology over privacy fears after the final piece of its video surveillance jigsaw fell into place with the awarding of a software contract last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-technology-facialrecognition/moscow-court-case-challenges-citys-facial-recognition-use-after-launch-idUSKBN1ZU1HJ | 2020-02-01 |
| Four Chinese airlines China Southern Airlines Hainan Airlines Air China China Eastern will still be able to fly to Moscow Golikova and Moscows Sheremetyevo International Airport said | Positive | MOSCOW Russia reported its first two cases of coronavirus on Friday and restricted direct flights to China its biggest trade partner as Russians complained of rising prices for medical masks and antivirus medicine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-case/russia-reports-first-coronavirus-cases-restricts-china-air-travel-idUSKBN1ZU1RM | 2020-02-01 |
| MOSCOW Russian authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for Boris Mints a prominent businessman and the former coowner of the Otkritie Group on suspicion of embezzlement a court in Moscow said on Thursday | Negative | MOSCOW Russian authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for Boris Mints a prominent businessman and the former coowner of the Otkritie Group on suspicion of embezzlement a court in Moscow said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-banks-mints/russia-puts-out-arrest-warrant-for-ex-banker-in-embezzlement-case-idUSKBN1ZT2A2 | 2020-01-31 |
| The airline S7 said its plane had been flying to Moscow from Simferopol in Crimea a region Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian plane made an emergency landing in Moscow on Thursday after a woman passenger stood up in the aisle and threatened to blow herself up but police later said no explosive device had been found on her news agencies reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-airplane-emergency/russian-plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-passenger-bomb-threat-idUSKBN1ZT1LS | 2020-01-31 |
| MOSCOW No explosives were found on a woman who forced a plane to make an emergency landing at Moscows Domodedovo airport on Thursday after she had threatened to blow herself up the Tass news agency reported citing a source | Negative | MOSCOW No explosives were found on a woman who forced a plane to make an emergency landing at Moscows Domodedovo airport on Thursday after she had threatened to blow herself up the Tass news agency reported citing a source | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-plane-emergency-side/no-explosives-found-on-woman-who-forced-russian-plane-into-emergency-landing-tass-idUSKBN1ZT1PB | 2020-01-31 |
| MOSCOW Russia and China are working to develop a coronavirus vaccine and Beijing has handed over the genome of the virus to Moscow a Russian diplomatic mission in China said on Wednesday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia and China are working to develop a coronavirus vaccine and Beijing has handed over the genome of the virus to Moscow a Russian diplomatic mission in China said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-vaccine/russia-and-china-are-working-on-virus-vaccine-consulate-idUSKBN1ZS0SQ | 2020-01-30 |
| It said the officers whom it identified by name and were all part of Moscows antidrug police force had also illegally obtained the drugs and stored and transported them illegally | Negative | MOSCOW Russia arrested five former police officers on Wednesday on suspicion of planting drugs on a prominent journalist last year to frame him | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-journalist/russia-to-charge-five-former-policemen-with-framing-prominent-reporter-idUSKBN1ZS1X8 | 2020-01-30 |
| Her release comes ahead of talks in Moscow between Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Thursday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia on Thursday freed a U.S.Israeli national jailed on drug charges after President Vladimir Putin granted her a pardon the TASS news agency said citing a law enforcement source | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/russia-frees-u-s-israeli-woman-from-jail-after-putin-pardon-tass-idUSKBN1ZT0HH | 2020-01-30 |
| WASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington for the unveiling of a U.S. plan for Middle East peace will fly to Moscow on Wednesday an Israeli official said | Positive | WASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington for the unveiling of a U.S. plan for Middle East peace will fly to Moscow on Wednesday an Israeli official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-russia/israels-netanyahu-will-fly-to-moscow-on-wednesday-aide-idUSKBN1ZR1GI | 2020-01-29 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Prosecutor General to investigate if a guilty verdict for Moscow protester Konstantin Kotov was lawful the Kremlin said | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Prosecutor General to investigate if a guilty verdict for Moscow protester Konstantin Kotov was lawful the Kremlin said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-protests-investigation/putin-orders-prosecutor-general-to-review-protesters-conviction-idUSKBN1ZO0FG | 2020-01-26 |
| Bulgaria was Moscows most reliable ally in eastern Europe during Soviet times | Negative | SOFIA Bulgaria expelled two Russian diplomats who prosecutors suspect were involved in espionage and gave them 48 hours to leave the Balkan country the foreign ministry said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-bulgaria-russia/bulgaria-expels-two-russian-diplomats-for-espionage-idUSKBN1ZN10K | 2020-01-25 |
| Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday proposed a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to resolve a row over oil supplies Belarus state news agency Belta said with Moscows exports to Minsk set to dry up next month | Positive | Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday proposed a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to resolve a row over oil supplies Belarus state news agency Belta said with Moscows exports to Minsk set to dry up next month | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-oil-russia/lukashenko-asks-to-meet-putin-with-russian-oil-supplies-to-belarus-set-to-dry-up-idUSKBN1ZN1H0 | 2020-01-25 |
| Safmar has been the sole Russian oil supplier to refineries in Belarus this month as Moscow and Minsk have failed to agree on terms of sales for 2020 | Negative | MOSCOW Urals crude oil loadings from Primorsk and UstLuga for February 110 were revised upwards by 0 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-crude/russia-raises-baltic-crude-loadings-on-february-1-10-amid-dispute-over-supply-contract-with-minsk-idUSKBN1ZM2K1 | 2020-01-24 |
| MOSCOW The World AntiDoping Agency said on Wednesday it had provisionally suspended the status of Moscows antidoping laboratory that had allowed it to analyse athlete biological passports as Russias doping scandal continues | Negative | MOSCOW The World AntiDoping Agency said on Wednesday it had provisionally suspended the status of Moscows antidoping laboratory that had allowed it to analyse athlete biological passports as Russias doping scandal continues | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-sport-doping-wada-russia/wada-provisionally-suspends-moscow-lab-for-serious-violation-idUSKBN1ZL2PF | 2020-01-23 |
| WADA said its Laboratory Expert Group had deemed Moscows deletion and alteration of laboratory data to be a serious violation | Negative | MOSCOW The World AntiDoping Agency said on Wednesday it had provisionally suspended the status of Moscows antidoping laboratory that had allowed it to analyse athlete biological passports as Russias doping scandal continues | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-sport-doping-wada-russia/wada-provisionally-suspends-moscow-lab-for-serious-violation-idUSKBN1ZL2PF | 2020-01-23 |
| MOSCOW Alexander Novak has retained his post as Russian Energy Minister after a government reshuffle the Kremlin said on Tuesday following days of uncertainty over who would lead Moscows global energy diplomacy | Negative | MOSCOW Alexander Novak has retained his post as Russian Energy Minister after a government reshuffle the Kremlin said on Tuesday following days of uncertainty over who would lead Moscows global energy diplomacy | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-government-novak/novak-stays-on-as-russian-energy-minister-after-government-shake-up-idUSKBN1ZK28L | 2020-01-22 |
| LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday there would be no normalization of the two countries relations until Moscow ends its destabilizing that threatens security | Negative | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday there would be no normalization of the two countries relations until Moscow ends its destabilizing that threatens security | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-britain-security-russia/no-normalization-in-relations-yet-uk-pm-johnson-tells-russias-putin-idUSKBN1ZI0N9 | 2020-01-20 |
| MOSCOW Gazprom Neft Russias third largest oil producer believes Moscows cooperation with OPEC on output will continue into the long term Deputy Chief Executive Vadim Yakovlev told reporters on Friday | Neutral | MOSCOW Gazprom Neft Russias third largest oil producer believes Moscows cooperation with OPEC on output will continue into the long term Deputy Chief Executive Vadim Yakovlev told reporters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia-gazpromneft/russia-set-for-long-term-partnership-with-opec-says-gazprom-neft-idUSKBN1ZG17X | 2020-01-18 |
| Earlier this month Iranian chess grandmaster Mitra Hejaziour was expelled from the national team for not wearing the hijab at the World Rapid and Blitz Championship in Moscow | Negative | VLADIVOSTOK Russia An Iranian chess referee who has been accused of violating her countrys Islamic dress code while adjudicating a womens tournament said that she does not want to return home from Russia out of fear for her safety | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-hijab-chess/iranian-chess-ref-accused-of-flouting-dress-code-says-she-wont-return-home-idUSKBN1ZG1MK | 2020-01-18 |
| The changes come as Russia battles poor economic growth and volatile oil prices as Western sanctions imposed in 2014 over Moscows annexation of Crimea from Ukraine continue to weigh | Negative | MOSCOW Russias top economic officials have canceled keynote speeches they were due to make at the countrys first economic forum of 2020 an updated schedule showed on Thursday a day after the government quit amid plans for a constitutional shakeup | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-economy/russian-economic-officials-cancel-keynote-speeches-amid-reshuffle-idUSKBN1ZF12H | 2020-01-17 |
| Possible candidates include Sergei Sobyanin the mayor of Moscow Maxim Oreshkin the economy minister or Alexander Novak the energy minister | Neutral | MOSCOW Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that his government was resigning to give President Vladimir Putin room to carry out the changes he wants to make to the constitution | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-government/russian-prime-minister-and-government-resign-after-putin-speech-idUSKBN1ZE1RB | 2020-01-16 |
| Like Putin Mishustin enjoys ice hockey and is on the boards of CSKA Moscow ice hockey club and the Russian Ice Hockey Federation | Neutral | MOSCOW Mikhail Mishustin President Vladimir Putins surprise choice to become Russias prime minister is a tax chief with almost no political profile who analysts say could be a technocratic placeholder | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-mishustin/technocratic-placeholder-putin-picks-low-profile-tax-chief-as-russian-pm-idUSKBN1ZE2OO | 2020-01-16 |
| MOSCOW Russias defense ministry said on Tuesday that Khalifa Haftar commander of forces in eastern Libya had been positive about a ceasefire deal drafted at talks in Moscow and is taking two days to discuss it the Interfax news agency reported | Positive | MOSCOW Russias defense ministry said on Tuesday that Khalifa Haftar commander of forces in eastern Libya had been positive about a ceasefire deal drafted at talks in Moscow and is taking two days to discuss it the Interfax news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-russia-allies/russia-libyas-haftar-is-taking-two-days-to-discuss-ceasefire-deal-ifax-idUSKBN1ZD1JP | 2020-01-15 |
| MOSCOW Khalifa Haftar commander of the Libyan National Army has left Moscow without signing a ceasefire agreement drafted at talks in Russia on Monday the TASS news agency cited the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Tuesday | Negative | MOSCOW Khalifa Haftar commander of the Libyan National Army has left Moscow without signing a ceasefire agreement drafted at talks in Russia on Monday the TASS news agency cited the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-russia-haftar/libyas-haftar-leaves-moscow-without-signing-ceasefire-tass-idUSKBN1ZD0K0 | 2020-01-15 |
| ProLNA channels said Haftar had already left Moscow | Neutral | Libya Libyas warring leaders made some progress at indirect peace talks in Moscow on Monday but failed to agree on an openended ceasefire to end a ninemonth war over the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-russia/libya-peace-talks-in-moscow-fall-short-of-ceasefire-deal-idUSKBN1ZC0AE | 2020-01-14 |
| MOSCOW Libyas warring leaders did not meet officially during indirect peace talks held in Moscow on Monday the Interfax news agency cited a member of the Russian delegation which mediated the talks together with Turkey as saying | Negative | MOSCOW Libyas warring leaders did not meet officially during indirect peace talks held in Moscow on Monday the Interfax news agency cited a member of the Russian delegation which mediated the talks together with Turkey as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-russia-talks/libyas-haftar-serraj-did-not-meet-officially-during-moscow-talks-interfax-idUSKBN1ZC21Q | 2020-01-14 |
| MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry said the heads of Libyas two warring factions will hold talks in Moscow on Monday the Interfax news agency reported | Positive | MOSCOW Russias foreign ministry said the heads of Libyas two warring factions will hold talks in Moscow on Monday the Interfax news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-libya-security-russia-meeting/heads-of-warring-libyan-sides-to-meet-in-moscow-russian-foreign-ministry-idUSKBN1ZC0EA | 2020-01-14 |
| Today we can report that some progress was Lavrov told reporters at the elegant 19th century Moscow mansion where the talks were held | Positive | Libya Libyas warring leaders made some progress at indirect peace talks in Moscow on Monday but failed to agree on an openended ceasefire to end a ninemonth war over the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-russia/libya-peace-talks-in-moscow-fall-short-of-ceasefire-deal-idUSKBN1ZC0AE | 2020-01-14 |
| MOSCOW Belarus state oil company Belorusneft has suspended supplies of its own oil to Germany this month as Minsk needs to compensate for shortages of Russiasourced oil amid a contract dispute with Moscow four industry sources told Reuters on Friday | Negative | MOSCOW Belarus state oil company Belorusneft has suspended supplies of its own oil to Germany this month as Minsk needs to compensate for shortages of Russiasourced oil amid a contract dispute with Moscow four industry sources told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus-germany/belarus-halts-own-oil-exports-to-germany-russian-oil-transit-unaffected-sources-idUSKBN1Z914S | 2020-01-11 |
| Turkey had asked Russia to establish a ceasefire in the region and it sent its delegation to Moscow last month to discuss the issue | Positive | MOSCOW A ceasefire regime has been established in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib TASS news agency reported citing a Russian defense ministry official on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia-ceasefir/russia-says-ceasefire-established-in-syrias-idlib-tass-idUSKBN1Z82FA | 2020-01-10 |
| MOSCOW Two Russian oil firms controlled by the family of tycoon Mikhail Gutseriyev plan to increase oil supplies to Belarus to a total of 750000 tonnes this month amid a wider energy spat between Moscow and Minsk three oil industry sources told Reuters | Positive | MOSCOW Two Russian oil firms controlled by the family of tycoon Mikhail Gutseriyev plan to increase oil supplies to Belarus to a total of 750000 tonnes this month amid a wider energy spat between Moscow and Minsk three oil industry sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus/russian-oil-tycoon-gutseriyev-to-increase-oil-supplies-to-belarus-sources-idUSKBN1Z81VX | 2020-01-10 |
| ISTANBUL The presidents of Turkey and Russia on Wednesday formally launched the TurkStream pipeline which will carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe through Turkey part of Moscows efforts to reduce shipments via Ukraine | Negative | ISTANBUL The presidents of Turkey and Russia on Wednesday formally launched the TurkStream pipeline which will carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe through Turkey part of Moscows efforts to reduce shipments via Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-turkey-russia-pipeline/turkey-russia-launch-turkstream-pipeline-carrying-gas-to-europe-idUSKBN1Z71WP | 2020-01-09 |
| In his report he said his investigation could not establish evidence that Trumps campaign illegally conspired with Moscow | Negative | WASHINGTON Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein best known for his decision to appoint Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017 to probe links between President Donald Trumps campaign and Russia has joined the law firm King Spalding as a partner the firm announced on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-moves-rosenstein/former-deputy-attorney-rod-rosenstein-joins-the-law-firm-king-spalding-idUSKBN1Z72EO | 2020-01-09 |
| SOFIA Russia has started European gas deliveries through the new TurkStream pipeline to Turkey Bulgarias Bulgartransgaz said on Sunday as Moscow looks to reduce shipments via Ukraine | Neutral | SOFIA Russia has started European gas deliveries through the new TurkStream pipeline to Turkey Bulgarias Bulgartransgaz said on Sunday as Moscow looks to reduce shipments via Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-bulgaria-gas/russia-begins-turkstream-gas-flows-to-greece-north-macedonia-idUSKBN1Z40D0 | 2020-01-06 |
| It was not clear when Moscow and Minsk could resume talks on their 2020 contract | Neutral | Russia has halted oil supplies to refineries in Belarus the Belarusian state energy firm said on Friday amid a new contract dispute that is also threatening large Russian oil deliveries to Western Europe crossing the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus/russia-halts-oil-to-belarus-but-transit-to-europe-still-flowing-idUSKBN1Z20UP | 2020-01-04 |
| Minsk ultimately caved in to pressure from Moscow and scrapped the transit duty | Negative | LONDON A fresh dispute over oil is looming between Russia and Belarus as Russian producers divert large volumes of crude to export ports after failing to reach a deal over deliveries to Minsk | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus-factbox/factbox-russias-oil-and-gas-disputes-with-belarus-idUSKBN1YZ0XW | 2020-01-01 |
