Alissa De Carbonnel

President Vladimir Putin says Russia has reserved the right to use all options in Ukraine, but that Moscow would use force only as a last resort.

The US, UK and France want UN-sanctioned use of force should Syria fail to allow destruction of its chemical weapons, but Russia disagrees.

President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that bans Americans from adopting Russian children and imposed other sanctions in retaliation.

Russia’s most famous prisoner has likened the Pussy Riot trial to a medieval inquisition and says their prison regime may amount to torture.

Three astronauts have blasted off to the ISS as Russia seeks to restore confidence in its space programme after recent botched launches.

Russia’s failed Mars moon probe points to problems of a once-pioneering space industry struggling to recover after a generation of brain drain.

Astronomers in Russia say contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation is inevitable, and that aliens will probably look just like humans.

A tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant might give some countries pause over the risks of exposing reactors to the power of the oceans. Not Russia.

Revda is a collection of apartment blocks that rise out of nowhere in Russia’s far north, a town whose existence hangs by a thread.