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Official Moscow supports a proposed alliance between the Syrian regime and moderate opposition against the Islamists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Britain could buy weapons from its former Cold War foe for the first time under a landmark defence treaty, the Telegraph can reveal.

A Russian businessman has filed a $600 million lawsuit against Russia’s second largest bank, VTB, with London’s High Court, a newspaper reported Monday.

Protests in Ukraine are spreading further outside Kiev, with reports of unrest in the east, north and south.

Russian Constitutional Court on March 6 will review the applications filed by Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin and various citizens and NGOs contesting the controversial NGO law.

Russia will seek the release of one of its nationals from the United States’ notorious Guantanamo prison, the Foreign Ministry’s human rights envoy Konstantin Dolgov told journalists Monday.

The Moscow City Court has removed five jurors from a new jury panel of the Anna Politkovskaya murder case, the court’s spokesperson Ulyana Solopova told RAPSI on Monday.

Georgia has protested after Russia temporarily expanded its Olympic security zone into the breakaway Georgian territory of Abkhazia.

Russia is considering restricting imports from foreign online retailers, joining an increasing number of countries looking into measures to protect local operators.

Russia’s capital city should be moved from Moscow to Siberia if the authorities are serious about developing the country’s eastern regions, aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska said Thursday.