A RUSSIAN military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia’s Far East region, leaving all eleven crew members missing and presumed dead, officials said. The Tupolev Tu-142 plane disappeared from radar as it was coming to...

“They’re happy, they’re full,” she said as the young leeches, squirming and swollen from their meal, settled into the containers that would be their home until the next feeding. Lepyoshkina’s charges were among the three...

Russia has agreed to proposals by the U.N. nuclear watchdog to help reduce Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

Vladimir Putin dropped the heaviest hint so far that he aims to return to his former post as president in 2012, a move that could see him still in the Kremlin in 2024 – aged 72. Speaking to a group of international scholars and journalists at his...

It’s August in Russia, and that can only mean one thing – it’s time for the Russian public to be treated to another round of Vladimir Putin’s holiday photos. This year, Mr Putin, formerly president and now Prime Minister, was snapped...

At the Metelitsa casino, the oldest private gambling house in Moscow, which opened in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union, they are packing up the card shoes and folding the gaming tables away. Across Russia thousands of others are doing the same...

Russian news agencies quote a senior economic official as saying that Russia faces at least two quarters of economic decline and is therefore in recession.RIA-Novosti and Interfax quote Deputy Economics Minister Andrei Klepach as saying, ``The recession...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says US sanctions will not stop Russia’s state arms trader from selling defensive weapons to Iran.

It did not take the clash between Russia and Georgia to reveal that relations between Russia and the West have taken a bad turn. They have been deteriorating since the mid-1990s, when the decision was taken to expand NATO to include the former Warsaw...

As they tracked Russian military maneuvers in recent days, the American government’s career Kremlin-watchers might have been forgiven for wondering if they were seeing recycled newsreels from the worst of the bad old days.