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Leaders of the Brics emerging economies are to launch a development bank at a summit in the remote Russian city of Ufa this this week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin backs the central bank’s move to hike interest rates amidst warnings that it will send the country into a recession.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned Nato and the US not to offer Ukraine membership of the alliance, ahead of a Nato summit.
A senior Russian official appealed to the West after a far-right leader said he planned to run for president in Ukraine.
Former US NSA contractor Edward Snowden has failed to secure permission from Russia to leave Sheremetyevo airport.
Former intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden will seek temporary political asylum in Russia, according to human rights groups that met him.
The US has pressed Russia to do everything in its power to expel Edward Snowden before he gets the chance to take an expected flight to Cuba.
The standoff over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has escalated after Britain threatened to raid Ecuador’s embassy if Quito didn’t hand him over.
Rumours surrounding the death of Eugene Terre’Blanche continued to swirl on Sunday as a media report said sodomy "sparked the murder".
Poles were in deep mourning on Sunday after President Lech Kaczynski and many of the country’s ruling elite were killed in a plane crash.
Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski, its central bank head and the country’s military chief were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed.
