Russia

U.N. Security Council to vote on chlorine arms use in Syria

The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Friday on a U.S.-drafted resolution to condemn...

Mar 06, 2015 07:36 AM EST

French court approves Kazakh tycoon Ablyazov's extradition

France's highest appeals court paved the way on Wednesday for the extradition to either Russia or Uk...

Mar 05, 2015 10:06 AM EST

Russia starts large-scale military exercises in disputed territories

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that large-scale military exercises had started in southe...

Mar 05, 2015 08:38 AM EST

Russia's Putin calls Nemtsov's murder political

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov w...

Mar 04, 2015 09:33 AM EST

Blood near the Kremlin: Russia's media fight back

A corpse on a bloodstained bridge, with the Kremlin's red stars glowing behind: the perfect symbolic...

Mar 02, 2015 06:56 PM EST

Ukraine says Russia continues to violate winter gas agreement

Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz said Russia's Gazprom (GAZP.MM) is violating the terms of an EU...

Mar 02, 2015 09:00 AM EST

Russians to march in memory of murdered critic of Putin

Opposition supporters will march through Moscow on Sunday in memory of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov,...

Feb 28, 2015 06:06 PM EST

Former Kremlin banker Pugachev loses appeal to keep trust income hidden

Sergei Pugachev, a Russian tycoon once dubbed "the cashier to the Kremlin," must disclose further in...

Feb 28, 2015 04:09 AM EST

Putin surveys the map as he ponders next move on Ukraine

In Russia, Vladimir Putin likes to portray himself as the saviour of the nation. In Europe and the U...

Feb 23, 2015 10:19 AM EST

Ukraine fears spread of war after blast in eastern city

Ukraine said on Sunday it feared unrest could spread beyond territory held by pro-Russian separatist...

Feb 22, 2015 11:36 PM EST

A year after fleeing Ukraine, Yanukovich speaks of return

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, who fled to Russia a year ago after being toppled by m...

Feb 22, 2015 03:51 AM EST

Russian competition watchdog opens case against Google: Interfax

Russia's Anti-Monopoly Service has opened a case against Google following a request from Russia's bi...

Feb 20, 2015 06:03 AM EST

Germany says peace plan for Ukraine 'damaged' not dead

Germany condemned the seizure of a strategic east Ukrainian town by pro-Russian rebels on Wednesday ...

Feb 18, 2015 11:07 PM EST

Constitution change for east Ukraine will be hard: Latvia

Assuming a ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in the east holds, the implemen...

Feb 15, 2015 06:32 AM EST

From driving to marital rape, nations fail to end sex discrimination

From India where marital rape is legal to Russia where women are banned from 456 jobs, scores of cou...

Feb 14, 2015 09:04 AM EST

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