Russia threatened on Thursday to ban visa-free travel forJapanese officials to four disputed Pacific islands if they make statements demanding the territories be returned to Japan.
Russia hopes the U.N. Security Council will agree a resolution this week to support a deal forSyria to abandon its chemical arms, but talks with the United States have been rocky, a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday.
Russia announced on Tuesday that it had opened a piracy investigation against the crew of a Greenpeace ship after its activists scaled an offshore oil platform in the Arctic last week.
An independent journalist missing for three days in Uzbekistan has been jailed on what human rights activists are calling politically motivated charges.
Vladimir Putin has banned all unsanctioned protests in Sochi for two months.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned ex-Soviet allies on Monday that Islamist militancy fuelling the war in Syria could reach their countries, some of which have Muslim majorities.
In an open letter, the imprisoned Pussy Riot member explains why the brutal conditions at Penal Colony No 14 have led her to undertake a hunger strike in protest. Beginning Monday, 23 September, I am going on hunger strike. This is an extreme method, but I am convinced that it is my only way out […]
The Kremlin has warned Ukraine that if the country goes ahead with a planned agreement on free trade with the EU, it faces inevitable financial catastrophe and possibly the collapse of the state.
A suicide bomber killed two people and injured around 20 outside a police station in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Russia rejected a U.S. and European plan to include enforcement in a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syrian chemical weapons disarmament, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
