Russia has rejected US pleas and granted Edward Snowden a year’s asylum, letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport.
Edward Snowden has awaited permission to leave the Moscow airport, as the US turned up the heat on Russia to send him back home.
Edward Snowden hopes to by Wednesday be granted papers allowing him to end his month-long stay in a Moscow airport and move to the city centre.
Edward Snowden has not ruled out eventually applying for citizenship in Russia, says a lawyer helping Snowden with his bid for temporary asylum.
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.
Russia and Turkey have joined SA in expressing outrage over revelations that the UK and the US spied on foreign delegates at G20 meetings in 2009.
Russia’s police have detained more than 20 gay rights activists involved in a "kissing protest" outside parliament.
Some $750-million is missing from Angola’s treasury from a debt repayment deal with Russia, a report by a corruption watchdog group has revealed.
The EU and Russia have begun talks dominated by the Syria crisis and Brussels’s decision to lift its arms embargo on Bashar al-Assad’s foes.
Russia is to resume patrols in the southern seas after a hiatus of over 20 years following the break-up of the Soviet Union, says a news agency.
Failure to renew an arms embargo on Syria could hamper US-Russian peace talks with the worn-torn nation.
On the anniversary of his rise to power, Human Rights Watch laments Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on non-governmental organisations in Russia.
Analysts have been mulling over the bid by the world’s two largests producers of the precious metal to sew up the platinum group metals market.
China’s glamorous first lady has become a media and internet sensation as she accompanies husband President Xi Jinping on a state visit to Russia.
Cyprus’s Finance Minister Michalis Sarris has left Moscow empty-handed after a two-day push to secure the island a financial lifeline failed.
Spaniards will worry that a bailout will come with a current account surcharge attached.
The meeting of Brics leaders next week could uncharitably be described as a summit of the world’s emerging economic powers – plus South Africa.
Miss Russia has contradicted President Putin by denouncing the jailing of members of punk band Pussy Riot, who performed a protest song in a church.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning smoking in public places in Russia.
A meteor streaked across the sky above Russia’s Ural Mountains, causing sharp explosions and injuring more than 400 people.
Russia has revealed it is supplying guns to Mali’s government, while French troops have discovered a massive homemade bomb in Gao, north of Mali.
Syrian opposition leader met Russia’s foreign minister, opening a window to a possible breakthrough in efforts to broker an end to Syria’s civil war.
Although the Brics offers advantages, it will not always make sense to go along with its decisions, say Peter Draper and Catherine Grant.
Tens of thousands marched though Moscow on Saturday to demand an end to Vladimir Putin’s rule and show their protest movement remains strong.
China has sounded the alarm about the state of the global economy and urged countries gathering at an Asia-Pacific summit to protect themselves.
A suicide bomber killed seven officers as they arrived at a colleague’s funeral in Russia’s North Caucasus, soon after gunmen opened fire in a mosque.
Madonna is the latest in a long list of global stars who have come out to support the trio, using a concert in Moscow to condemn their persecution.
Russia has made no agreement to grant Bashar al-Assad asylum and is "not even thinking about" doing so, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
A Russian mayor and two other officials have been arrested for failing to issue warnings and evacuate residents during floods that killed 171 people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a law which will tighten controls on civil right groups funded from abroad.
Russian authorities say they detained four suspects over attacks that wounded a top Islamic leader and killed his deputy.