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Russia has asserted that it takes a morally superior world-view to the West and is seeking to resist the tide of “non-traditional values”

A group of Islamists have been detained on suspicion of arson attacks on churches in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, local police said Thursday.

The United States could broaden the number of Russian officials included on a travel blacklist by the end of this year, the US ambassador in Moscow said Wednesday.

Israel and Russia have agreed to begin negotiations over a free trade area agreement to take place in the first quarter of next year, TheMarker has learned.

A court in Russia has ordered a block on a website owned by a co-founder of the torrent tracker Pirate Bay over alleged illegal copies of a hit World War II movie.

Russia and Cuba have quietly signed an agreement to write off 90 percent of Cuba’s $32 billion debt to the defunct Soviet Union, a deal that ends a 20-year squabble and opens the way for more investment and trade, Russian and European diplomats said.

Russia cast doubt on imminent membership for Ukraine in a customs bloc after speculation that a deal was close fueled anti-government protesters who thronged Kiev demanding that President Viktor Yanukovych resign.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has abolished the country’s state-owned news agency RIA Novosti.

German President Joachim Gauck will boycott the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, according to a report Sunday.

Russian law enforcement officials are considering bringing new charges against jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other figures over alleged money laundering, Vedomosti daily reported on Monday.