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A Russian man who participated in an anti-Kremlin protest has been convicted of “calling for mass riots” and sent for forced psychiatric treatment.

A diplomatic feud has broken out between the Netherlands and Russia – exactly at the moment the two countries are at odds over Russia’s detention of a group of Greeenpeace activists.

Russia and the United States have reached a “common understanding” on how to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria, President Vladimir Putin reportedly said Tuesday after meeting Secretary of State John Kerry.

Russia’s consumer-protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, has refused access to the Russian market to 28 new alcoholic beverages produced by seven Georgian companies.

Russia suspended imports of dairy products from neighboring Lithuania on Monday, turning up trade pressure on the European Union member weeks before it hosts a summit that could pull former Soviet republics further from Moscow’s orbit.

Russian courts should halt the extraditions of five ethnic Uzbeks to Kyrgyzstan. The men would be at serious risk of torture and ill-treatment if sent back there.

The U.S. and Russia on Monday began their first high-level talks since sealing a deal to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons – and since the onset of an apparent warming between Iran and the West.

Russia’s powerful FSB security service plans to ensure that no communication by competitors or spectators goes unmonitored during the event, according to a dossier compiled by a team of Russian investigative journalists looking into preparations for the 2014 Games.

Lithuania could block Russia’s road and rail access to its enclave of Kaliningrad if Moscow keeps pressuring its neighbors over their ties to the European Union, the Baltic state’s foreign minister said.

Dozens of angry protesters tried to storm Russia’s embassy in Tripoli after reports that a Russian woman had killed a Libyan army officer, witnesses said.