The Russian governmentsaid Thursday it would allocate 1.27 billion rubles ($16.6 million) to cover three months of housing ...

With Iran in crisis, Moscow and Beijing may be starting to hedge.

The war-ravaged country has been plunged into an energy crisis as temperatures plummet below freezing, leaving millions unable to heat their homes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agrees to ...

Mr Putin praised Russia’s constructive role in Latin America and the Middle East. He made no mention of America’s armed ...

Upon being released from prison in December 2013 after serving time for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” Russian political activist Maria Alyokhina observes that she and her fellow Pussy ...

Punk group Pussy Riot was declared an “extremist organization” by a Russian court on Monday. The ruling, which was made by Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court, effectively outlaws the group from ...

Russian authorities have branded the anti-Kremlin feminist punk band Pussy Riot as an extremist organisation. The ruling by a court in Moscow on Monday officially bans the group’s activities inside ...