Tag: Russia

Moscow- A foul odour enveloped the Russian capital throughout the day on Monday, with concerned Muscovites flooding authorities with complaints and officials scrambling to locate...

MOSCOW- US director Oliver Stone wants to make a documentary about Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said Thursday on a visit to Moscow, where...

Organisers of the vote said that Alexander Zakharchenko, a 38-year-old former mining electrician, had easily won election as head of the "Donetsk People's Republic", an entity proclaimed by armed rebels in the days after they seized key buildings in cities of Ukraine's Russian-speaking east last April.

 ISLAMABAD- Pakistan on Thursday said that India, under the cover of unprovoked firing and shelling, is trying to construct new bunkers within 500 metres of the...

MOSCOW- No bacon for breakfast, a room for prayers and a Quran on your bedside table: a hotel in Moscow has launched a special...

BOSTON- Russian hackers exploited a bug in Microsoft Windows and other software to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union, Ukraine and...

Russia will modernise and relaunch a Soviet-era radar station on the Crimean peninsula annexed from Ukraine to provide early warning of missile strikes, a...

A Russian billionaire is planning to build a high-tech hospital in the shape of a giant sailing boat. Vasily Klyukin said that the White Sails...

Ukraine’s top energy officials vows to keep fighting over both the gas price and Moscow’s claim that Kiev owed it billions of dollars in debt

BEIJING- China's President Xi Jinping urged Central Asian states to step up the fight against religious extremism and cyber terrorism, state media said, as Beijing...

KIEV— Ukraine is "still in a state of war" with neighboring Russia despite a cease-fire between Kiev's forces and Moscow-backed rebels in the east,...

Punitive measures target major oil firms, defence companies and state-owned banks, denying them access to finance in crucial European markets New European Union sanctions targeting...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday airstrikes against militants in Syria without a UN Security Council mandate would be an act of aggression, Interfax...

MOSCOW- Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut returned to Earth on Thursday after spending more than six months working together aboard the International...

Russia carried out a successful test of its new Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile on Wednesday and will perform two more test launches in October...

Paris agreed in 2011 to build and sell the two advanced helicopter assault ships to Russia for a total of $1.6 billion France suspended Wednesday...

In echoes of Cold War, NATO freezes relations with Moscow and eyes military deployments and boosting defence spending to deter Russian aggression Western leaders are...