Russia’s envoy to Africa says there is no place in Libya’s future for Gaddafi, whose son has called for elections to end the riven nation’s conflict.
Moscow police had detained three global gay rights leaders as violence broke out at a rally that activists tried to stage near the Kremlin wall.
On Saturday Russia said it would lift a ban on grain exports that was imposed in August 2010 in the middle of a drought that wiped out harvests.
A Russian newspaper has been shut down after it printed flyers for an opposition party intending to contest parliamentary elections in December.
The world’s largest emerging economies has slammed Europe’s push to lock up the International Monetary Fund’s top job.
President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday warned of a new Cold War era if Russia and the West failed to agree on missile defence.
Australian football chief Frank Lowy said on Thursday picking hosts for two World Cups at the same time was a flawed process.
Three weeks after the 50th anniversary of the Russian who became the first man to travel in space, the US is honouring the man who followed him.
Hot on the heels of the US operation that ended in the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, Russia says it has killed another al-Qaeda leader.
Russian and Ukrainian leaders marked 25 years since the world’s worst nuclear disaster on Tuesday as they paid an historic visit to Chernobyl.
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.
Russia is looking to the experience of other countries to "regulate" internet use, though Moscow has no plans to broaden web censorship.
Radical art collective keeps strictly under the radar, but continues to mock the state, writes <b>Nick Sturdee</b>.
Trade and finance officials from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa pledged pledged on Wednesday to examine ways to expand economic links.
A Russian who jumped from the seventh floor of his apartment building while heavily drunk miraculously survived by getting tangled in trees.
On sale soon to the highest bidder: Boris Yeltsin’s favourite dacha.
Yuri Tatarchuk has a disconcerting way of demonstrating Chernobyl’s grim radioactive legacy.
A push by several allies for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to take over operations in Libya ran into resistance from France on Monday.
A St Patrick’s Day parade that attracted crowds to Moscow for the last 19 years has been cancelled as part of the city’s battle against traffic jams.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev marked his 80th birthday on Wednesday by advising Vladimir Putin against running for president.
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The guilty verdict against the tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky was ordered from above and written by a judge who did not try the case.
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Volunteers will step out for a "space walk" on Mars on Monday, as the experiment to study the effects of a mission to the planet reaches its climax.
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Strongman leader Vladimir Putin has sat down for an interview with supermodel Naomi Campbell, telling her Russia had tougher guys than him.
A Kremlin investigation is likely to focus on Islamist militants from the volatile North Caucasus as terror returns to the Russian capital.
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An ethnic Russian member of a North Caucasus militant group on Thursday emerged as the first suspect in the suicide strike on Russia’s main airport.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed revenge on Tuesday for a suicide bombing that killed at least 35 people at Russia’s busiest airport.
A suspected suicide bomber has struck at Russia’s busiest airport, killing at least 35 and challenging Kremlin efforts to crush armed insurgency.
Swift condemnation followed a suicide blast at Moscow’s main airport that killed 35 people on Monday.
At least 31 people were killed and more than 130 injured on Monday in a suicide bombing at Russia’s biggest airport, state-run TV reported.
Nasser al-Attiyah of Qatar made up for heartbreak a year ago by finally winning his first Dakar Rally title on Saturday.
Russia on Wednesday blamed Polish failures for the plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
South Africa’s invitation to join the amorphous entity is an affront to the country’s foreign policy, write Mills Soko and Mzukisi Qobo.