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Russia has criticized the European Union’s decision to amend its arms embargo on Syria, saying the move will hurt efforts to hold a peace conference aimed at ending the country’s […]
Journalists love superlatives, and Russia’s southernmost republic, Dagestan, obliges. Of Russia’s 83 regions, Dagestan last year recorded the highest level of political violence – 53 bombings and 405 dead. Last […]
Why was British Prime Minister David Cameron helicoptering around the Caucasus Mountains recently with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Ostensibly Putin, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, was repaying Cameron a […]
When Vladimir Putin smiles, take notice. A Russian friend once commented to me that one thing she likes about her president is that he does not smile in public. On […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Russia for talks on the war in Syria and other issues. Secretary Kerry arrives Tuesday in Moscow where he will meet […]
Thousands of protesters gathered in Moscow to mark the first anniversary of an anti-Kremlin demonstration last year that ended in violence and with the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators. Monday’s […]
When a gay group held a film festival in Moscow in April, there were the usual anti-gay protesters. But this time, there was an unexpected visitor: a policeman armed with […]
Back in the sunny days before the Boston Marathon bombings, Vladimir Putin, an avid sportsman, decided that the best way to showcase his new Russia would be to host world […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has often complained that he battles alone against terrorism by Islamic extremists. Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Washington and Moscow Thursday to share security information […]
Russia’s government is busy rooting out “foreign agents.” So far police agents have “inspected” 700 non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, looking for traces of foreign funding. Police say there are 7,000 […]
