Georgia has warned it will take action if Russia makes any move to bolster the independence claims of two breakaway Georgian regions during ceremonies at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Russia’s foreign minister met with the head of the main Western-backed Syrian opposition group in exile who arrived in Moscow on Tuesday after weeks of delays.
Russia offered assurances on Tuesday that the Syrian government will show up at a new round of peace talks next week and will soon ship more toxic agents abroad for destruction under a deal to eliminate its chemical weapons arsenal.
A Russian jury handed down guilty verdicts Tuesday to two men who were members of the notorious Primorsky Partisans group that waged a war against law enforcement officers in 2009 and 2010 in the country’s Far East.
The Russian TV channel Dozhd (Rain), seen as one of the few liberal alternatives to the pro-Kremlin media, is at risk of closure, its owner says.
A commission of the Pushkin Library in Omsk, Siberia, ruled that Theodore Dreiser’s novel The Financier must not be issued to minors, a library official told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
Ukrainian police said Monday that they are looking into the alleged disappearance of 36 protesters as anti-government street demonstrations in the former Soviet nation continue.
The St. Petersburg-based Freedom of Information Foundation has filed a complaint against the prosecutor office’s request that it register with the Justice Ministry as a “foreign agent.”
Russia has urged Ukrainian opposition leaders to end their campaign of “ultimatums and threats” and to step up negotiations with the government.
Jurors on Monday watched the video from Anna Politkovskaya’s apartment block’s camera showing the killer of the journalist, RAPSI reports from the Moscow City Court.
