LISBON — Twenty years after the end of the Cold War, two sworn enemies — NATO and Russia — agreed over the weekend to put aside differences and cooperate on a range of issues, notably a U.S. missile shield to protect Europe.

A regional Russian official sacked for forcing a group of teenagers to kiss his feet has defended his actions, claiming he was merely repeating a lesson he had learned in the Red army. The official, Difkat Khantimerov, was fired over the weekend after...

Russia’s finance minister Alexei Kudrin urged citizens Wednesday to smoke and drink more to help lift tax revenues for spending on social services. “If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help solve social...

President Dmitry Medvedev asked Russia’s business elite Monday to help rebuild villages destroyed by fierce wildfires after rain and strong winds looked set to end weeks of unprecedented heat. Russia has been battling its worst heatwave which has...

Twin bombings killed at least two people and injured 13 others outside a police station in Ingushetia on Monday as a State Duma deputy called for a media ban on statements made by suspected terrorists. An unidentified male suicide bomber detonated...

Finland’s decision last week to give its final environmental approval to the Nord Stream gas pipeline came as Russia signalled a concession on another key issue for its Nordic neighbour - a further delay in imposing prohibitive export tariffs on...

Vladimir Putin has a lot to celebrate this Christmas. Not only has the Russian strongman consolidated his control over the proletariat — and all their oil and gas — he’s also been given his first son, sources say. Alina Kabaeva, the...

A new player has emerged in the roiling political theater of the Caucasus: the tiny, destitute Pacific island nation of Nauru, which on Tuesday became the fourth country to formally establish diplomatic relations with Abkhazia, effectively recognizing...

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...