The Latest Breaking News from Tass

Russia and China are ready to resume mutual travel as soon as possible and deepen their strategic cooperation, Zhang Hanhui, China's ambassador to Russia told the Russian state TASS news agency in remarks published on Wednesday.

Russia has appointed Colonel-General Alexander Lapin as chief of staff of the country's ground forces, state-owned news agency TASS reported on Tuesday, despite fierce criticism from leading hawks over his performance in Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 50 captured soldiers on Sunday in a deal both sides welcomed even as they fought one another in eastern Ukraine. Moscow said it carried out deadly missile strikes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk that killed “more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen”, but Kyiv rejected…

A Russian-operated Boeing 737 airliner that declared an in-flight emergency during a domestic flight on Saturday landed safely at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, Tass news agency cited a civil aviation source as saying.

Vladimir Putin plans to give state backing to Miss Universe contestant Anna Linnikova, 22, a model representing Russia at this month's pageant being held in New Orleans in the US

Japan's "anti-Russian course" makes peace treaty talks impossible, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said in comments published by the state TASS news agency on Tuesday.

Russian troops mobilized to fight in Ukraine can freeze their sperm for free before shipping out, “just in case.”

Russian reservists called up to fight in Ukraine will be able to freeze their sperm for free, a lawyer has claimed.

Russia’s health ministry will provide financial support for sperm freezing to soldiers sent to fight in Ukraine.