Lawyers are outraged over the freeing of an arms dealer on the run for a huge debt repayment scam.
Brazil, which hotly denounced US surveillance of its leaders, itself spied on US officials as well as on Russia, Iran and Iraq a decade ago.
US security leaker Edward Snowden is set to start a job providing technical support at a major Russian website, says his lawyer.
Despite criticism over his treatment of Russia’s gay community, President Vladimir Putin says all people will be welcome to the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The Netherlands has taken Russia to the world’s maritime court in order to free 30 crew members of Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise, charged with piracy.
As investors focus on current account deficits and structural weaknesses, South Africa is being seen as a less attractive emerging market.
Russia has installed an all-encompassing surveillance system called Sorm at the site of next year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
Activists came out with a united call for Russia’s release of 30 Greenpeace activists after being jailed for protests against Arctic oil drilling.
Russia has previously placed trade restrictions on former Soviet Union nations to discourage them from building close relations with the EU.
Jailed Pussy Riot musician Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been moved to an isolated cell, which Russia’s prison service says is "a so-called safe place".
United States whistle-blower Edward Snowden is living under guard at a secret location in Russia.
Despite France’s sentiments, Russia’s foreign minister has said there was no proof that Bashar al-Assad’s troops carried out the attack on Damascus.
Cher claims to have rejected an invitation to perform at the Sochi Winter Olympics in protest against anti-gay laws in Russia.
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.