Russia is testing the readiness of a missile unit that forms part of its strategic nuclear forces, the defence ministry said on Friday, in the latest of a series of
Russia test-fired missiles over distances of thousands of miles on Tuesday to simulate a "massive" nuclear response to an enemy first strike.
A treaty that Russia and Iran intend to sign shortly will include closer defence cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on
Russian President Vladimir Putin met North Korea's foreign minister in the Kremlin on Monday at a time of mounting concern in the West that North
On the last day of January, a woman took her son to see paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova at Polyclinic No. 140 in northwest Moscow.
Protesters stormed the parliament of the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia on Friday and demanded the resignation
President Vladimir Putin's spy chief warned the West on Wednesday that it risked disastrous consequences if the United States
Vietnam has extradited a prominent Belarusian opposition figure to Belarus where he faces a heavy prison sentence or possibly the death penalty, according to exiled
Russia said on Tuesday it was expelling a British diplomat for spying - an accusation denied by London - in the latest blow to the already
Russia warned the United States on Wednesday to halt what it called a "spiral of escalation" over Ukraine, but said it would keep informing Washington about test missile
Russia may use its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile to attack "decision-making centres" in Kyiv in response to Ukraine's firing of Western missiles at Russian territory,
Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Thursday that he had deliberately used his black labrador Koni to intimidate German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a meeting in
Alexei Gorinov, the first man to be jailed under Russia's war censorship laws, was sentenced to three more years in a penal colony on Friday after being found
Forty-eight thousand relatives of Russian troops have submitted DNA samples, a government minister was recorded as saying, in a sensitive discussion apparently
Russia is open to talks with U.S.
Russia moved a step closer towards recognising the Taliban government of Afghanistan on Tuesday as parliament voted in favour of a law that would make it possible to
Russian prosecutors have demanded prison terms of nearly six years each for three lawyers who represented Alexei Navalny, an ally of the late opposition leader
Russia's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that would allow courts to suspend bans on groups designated by Moscow as terrorist organisations - paving the way for it to
A former top official in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh protested on the eve of his trial before an Azerbaijani military court on Friday that he had not been
Russia's financial watchdog has rejected a request to remove late opposition leader Alexei Navalny from its list of "terrorists and extremists" even though he is
Jailed Belarusian politician Viktor Babariko, who was arrested while trying to run in a 2020 election against President Alexander Lukashenko, has been allowed to send a
Russia said on Monday its forces had made important gains in eastern Ukraine while continuing to fend off a new Ukrainian offensive inside the Kursk
Russia said on Sunday that Ukraine had launched a new attack in the Kursk region, an area of western Russia from which Russian troops have been
The severing of one of Russia's last gas export routes to Europe is being felt most painfully in a small, mainly Russian-speaking
The cut-off of Russian gas supplies to Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region has forced the closure of all industrial companies except food
Zara opens flagship store in China's Nanjing with cafe and content creation studio
Thai February exports jump 14% y/y, beats forecast
China's criticism of Hutchison ports deal raises stakes for TikTok US sale
Soccer-Panama stun US with stoppage-time winner to reach Nations League final
Huge fire closes UK's Heathrow Airport, global flight schedules disrupted
Switching off plants: Chinese copper smelters grapple with margin collapse
Detentions of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America
