The Frenchman’s misadventure has not put him off more adventurous rides, although he cautioned against attempting to outwit ...

Maria Alyokhina reveals the conditions she endured in one of the remote penal colonies where opponents of Vladimir Putin face ...

Prisoners convicted of violent crimes are being released to fight in Ukraine under military contracts in Russia.

Kurdish counter-terrorism officials tell the BBC so-called Islamic State cells in Syria are regrouping and increasing attacks ...

Good morning and welcome to Thursday’s edition of BBC Verify Live.

A major investigation by Russian outlet Verstka has uncovered evidence of systemic executions, torture, and ‘zeroing out’ ...

The number of incidents of Russian teenagers attacking military and civilian infrastructure is rising – and the Kremlin doesn ...

Jana Bakunina reveals what pro-Putin friends and family told her while visiting Yekaterinburg, and how opponents are burying ...

Ian ( Hugh Dillon) is the first to respond to the bodies on the tracks. He discovers they are Russian gangsters, which means ...

ST PETERSBURG, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A teenage Russian street musician was jailed for 13 days on Thursday after she played a banned anti-Kremlin song on St Petersburg's central avenue. Diana Loginova, an ...

A French racer who spent 50 days in detention in Russia says he is aiming to break a new record, after his hopes of achieving the fastest bicycle ride from Portugal to the Pacific Ocean were shattered ...

Manafort was in the industrial city on the outskirts of Milan with a new client on whose behalf he was trying to engineer a political makeover that evoked some of the 1980s-era projects that made him ...