On day three of talks between the United States and Russia, the two agree to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons by mid 2014.
Russia is sending the naval landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov to the eastern Mediterranean, says state news agency Interfax.
Russia has sent a missile cruiser to the east Mediterranean to take over the navy’s operations as the US prepares for possible strike in Syria.
SA has criticised "the possibility of a military intervention" in Syria by the West, calling on all sides to negotiate a better solution.
Russia is sending two warships to the eastern Mediterranean, and has denied the deployment is linked to events in Syria.
Actor Wentworth Miller has come out as a gay man in a letter declining an invitation to attend a Russian festival in light of Moscow’s anti-gay laws.
A Russian athlete says she was offended by claims that she had kissed a woman on the lips in defiance of Russia’s law against gay "propaganda".
Fifa says it has asked 2018 World Cup hosts Russia to explain in more detail its controversial new law banning "homosexual propaganda."
Canadian Olympians will march in a pride parade in solidarity with the gay community that could land them in jail or kicked out of the Sochi Olympics.
An unintentional activist is helping young homosexuals faced with hatred in Russia after starting a closed forum for them to interact.
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.