A working meeting requested by Smolensk Governor Vasily Anokhin has been held "to discuss the coordination of joint efforts and the participation of Belarusian partners in the Smolensk NPP-2 ...

Under Orthodox Church canon law, a patriarch cannot be married and must be celibate. But according to a new Proekt investigation, Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill has had a “secret common ...

MINSK, 30 September (BelTA) – Russia’s Smolensk Oblast plans to continue purchasing passenger vehicles from Belarus, Smolensk Oblast Governor Vasily Anokhin said at a meeting with Head of the Belarus ...

THERE used to be something about an old-fashioned coal-burning locomo-tive, puffing and snorting in the station yard, that this present airborne generation will never know. The gigantic spoked wheels, ...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it had prevented a Ukrainian drone attack on the Smolensk nuclear power plant in western Russia on Sunday (August 17, 2025). Russia makes biggest ...

MOSCOW - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it had prevented a Ukrainian drone attack on the Smolensk nuclear power plant in western Russia on Sunday. The Soviet-era Smolensk nuclear ...

Russia Says It Prevented Ukrainian Drone Attack on Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it had prevented a Ukrainian drone attack on the ...

Russian nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has issued a five-year licence extension for unit 2 of the Smolensk nuclear power plant, which will see its original 30-year life now extended to 45 years.