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Russian President Vladimir Putin urged foreign journalists not to mix sport with politics in a trademark sarcastic quip at the Sochi Olympics on Saturday.

Russia could build a second reactor at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant in exchange for Iranian oil, the Iranian ambassador to Moscow said in remarks published on Monday.

Russia’s prison service said Friday that it is creating a trading house to sell wares made by inmates.

A parliamentary commission in the Baltic nation of Latvia has supported proposed legislation criminalizing the denial of Soviet and Nazi occupation.

Irina Rodnina is a sporting legend. A 10-time figure skating world champion, a triple Olympic gold medallist.

Georgia’s new prime minister Irakli Garibashvili said Tuesday that he is ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, signifying a thaw in bilateral ties.

American intelligence agencies “certainly” consider Russia a possible suspect behind the release of a telephone call recording that surfaced last week in which a U.S. diplomat was heard crudely disparaging the European Union, the U.S. intelligence chief said on Tuesday.

The Moscow City Duma’s commission on monumental art on Tuesday turned down a proposal to return a monument honoring the founder of the Soviet secret police to the city’s center.

Egypt’s military chief, Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi, is heading to Moscow on his first visit since the army ousted the country’s Islamist president last year.

The Russian military is set to expand a training program for university students to provide an alternative to the country’s mandatory draft for young men, Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov said Monday.