MOSCOW: If Vladimir Putin fulfills the goals he’s set for his new six-year term as president, Russia in 2024 will be far advanced in new technologies and...
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin doesn’t tweet and he claims he doesn’t have a smartphone. At first sight, the Russian president’s reluctance to adopt the...
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin’s torso, which he sometimes bares during sporting pursuits, is a familiar part of his public image. How much Putin reveals of the man...
STOCKHOLM: When Alfred Nobel established a literature prize in his name, he might have benefited from an editor. The terms of his will leave the prize’s exact...
KIEV/ MOSCOW: A gentle romantic ballad challenged the Eurovision Song Contest’s decadeslong reputation for cheesy, glittery, unbridled excess –...
MOSCOW: Vladimir Lysenko’s painted bull stares with flat black eyes like a double-barrel shotgun, one of his horns festooned in a mosaic of bright rectangles,...
MOSCOW: In careful phrasing befitting the spy he once was, Vladimir Putin has made it clear he expects a great deal from President-elect Donald Trump. And,...
Complaints of election violations in the Russian parliamentary vote were increasing Sunday amid reports of a record low turnout in Moscow, signaling voter...
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has made no public comment on the sensational report by a British judge that concluded the Kremlin leader probably approved a...
MOSCOW: Russia showed off new machines of war, including a highly sophisticated tank, on Saturday in the annual Victory Day military parade through Red Square...
MOSCOW: Riders from a Russian nationalist motorcycle group on Saturday began their run commemorating the Red Army's offensive against Nazi Germany, despite...
NIDA, Lithuania: At the edge of the Valley of Silence, the landscape changes so suddenly it’s like strolling to another continent – from a placid,...
KIEV: Two people were killed and about eight others injured in a bomb explosion at a march Sunday in Ukraine's second-largest city that was commemorating...
MOSCOW: The Eurasian Economic Union, a trade bloc of former Soviet states, expanded to four nations Friday when Armenia formally joined, a day after the union...
KIEV, Ukraine: The vote by Ukraine's parliament to drop its nonaligned status, which could pave the way for a bid to join NATO, challenges the Kremlin's...
KIEV: A former presidential aide despised by protesters has been shot and wounded, his spokesman said Tuesday, raising fears of retaliation as Ukraine charts...
SOCHI, Russia: Four days after being praised as a hero for helping Russia win its first gold at the Sochi Olympics, Evgeni Plushenko Friday was taking...
KIEV: The European Union's foreign policy chief is meeting with Ukraine's embattled president on Wednesday as the country's two-month-old political crisis is...
KIEV, Ukraine: Leaders of the anti-government protests that have gripped Ukraine's capital for more than two months say they will seek constitutional changes...
KIEV: In the midst of Ukraine’s endless political crisis, its embattled president went on sick leave Thursday, setting off a wave of conspiracy theories...
KIEV, Ukraine: Ukraine's parliament has passed a measure offering amnesty to arrested protesters, but only if demonstrators vacate most of the buildings they...
KIEV, Ukraine: In back-to-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine's political crisis, the prime minister resigned Tuesday and parliament repealed...
KIEV: New violence erupted in Ukraine's capital during the night as a large crowd attacked a government exposition and conference hall where police were...
KIEV: Ukraine's embattled president on Saturday offered to make a top opposition leader the prime minister, but it was unclear if the overture would...
MOSCOW: Mikhail Kalashnikov started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle,...