MOSCOW: Five men were convicted on Tuesday of murdering 2006 of investigative journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya, including three defendants who...
MOSCOW: President Bashar al-Assad has forecast that much of the fighting in the Syrian civil war will be over by the end of the year, a former Russian prime...
MOSCOW: An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who heads a bank that was hit by U.S. sanctions over the Crimea crisis suggested on Sunday the move had...
MOSCOW: Russia blocked access to the internet sites of prominent Kremlin foes Alexei Navalny and Garry Kasparov on Thursday under a new law critics say is...
MOSCOW: A Crimean Tatar leader told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that the secession of Crimea from Ukraine to join Russia would violate an...
MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday it would veto a U.N. resolution on humanitarian aid access in Syria in its current form, denouncing the draft as an effort to...
MOSCOW: Russia rejected U.S. charges that Syria is dragging its feet on giving up chemical weapons and said on Friday that a June 30 deadline to destroy...
MOSCOW: Russia has identified two suicide bombers responsible for attacks that killed 34 people in the city of Volgograd last month and arrested two suspected...
MOSCOW/KIEV: President Vladimir Putin raised the pressure on Ukraine on Wednesday, saying Russia would wait until it forms a new government before fully...
MOSCOW/KIEV: Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his government Wednesday to honor a $15 billion bailout deal for Ukraine, but a minister suggested the...
MOSCOW: Russia has sent 25 armoured trucks and 50 other vehicles to Syria to help transport toxins that are to be destroyed under an international agreement...
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West on Wednesday of putting pressure on Ukraine to choose closer ties with Europe even though Kiev...
VIENNA/MOSCOW: A breakthrough agreement to end the standoff over Iran's nuclear program appeared to face its first major difficulty on Friday with Russia...
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Iran next week to discuss the interim deal reached by world powers and Tehran over its nuclear...
MOSCOW: Russian lawmakers introduced legislation on Friday that would make spreading separatist views or expressing sympathy for separatist groups a criminal...
MOSCOW: Russia believes most of Syria's chemical arsenal should be removed from the country rather than destroyed there, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei...
MOSCOW: Russian authorities said on Tuesday they had foiled a plot by Islamist radicals to bomb a chemical weapons facility and had arrested two suspects from...
MOSCOW: Edward Snowden's father arrived in Moscow on Thursday to visit the former U.S. spy agency contractor who is living in a secret location in Russia...
MOSCOW: Russia has pressed piracy charges against all 30 people arrested after the environmental group Greenpeace staged a protest at an offshore oil platform...
MOSCOW: Russia expressed doubt on Tuesday that Western nations can persuade Syrian opposition representatives to take part in an international peace...
MOSCOW/BEIRUT: Russia denounced U.N. investigators' findings on a poison gas attack in Syria as preconceived and tainted by politics on Wednesday,...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia: U.S. President Barack Obama defied pressure to abandon plans for air strikes against Syria at a summit on Friday which left world...
MOSCOW: Russia raised the alarm on Tuesday after detecting the launch of two ballistic "objects" in the Mediterranean Sea but Israel later said it had carried...
MOSCOW: The U.N. Security Council should wait for inspectors to present their report on an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria before considering a...
MOSCOW: A former U.S. spy agency contractor facing charges of espionage remained in hiding at a Moscow airport Wednesday while the prospect grew of a...