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A Moscow subway station is the newest focus of Russia's bitter dispute over the legacy of Josef Stalin, whose outsize shadow still haunts the nation more than 50 years after his death.
Norway's Telenor and Russian conglomerate Alfa Group said Monday they are ending their longstanding legal battles and combining their main mobile phone holdings in Russia and Ukraine into a single company, a deal Telenor's CEO called a milestone.
Russia on Monday welcomed the new NATO chief's call for better ties, but said it's largely up to the alliance to make it happen.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed support for Chechnya's controversial leader Monday by praising his assassinated father — the first Kremlin-backed Chechen president — and laying flowers at his grave.
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev can both claim success at a summit meant to put badly strained ties on track, but a third figure also seems to have emerged a winner: Vladimir Putin.
Russia on Thursday accused Western leaders of slighting the Soviet role in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in their remarks this month commemorating the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Two former Soviet republics refused to sign onto a deal Sunday to create a NATO-style rapid-reaction force for a Moscow-dominated security alliance, undermining a Kremlin bid to bolster its power and prestige amid a struggle with the West for regional clout.
President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that Russia is taking steps toward greater democracy, defending electoral reforms that Kremlin critics dismiss as window-dressing.
Russia has a long tradition of honoring it soldiers, scholars and scientists for outsized achievements. On Monday, it honored parents with outsized families with the "Order of Parental Glory" — part of a campaign to halt a dramatic population decline.
A 5-year-old Russian girl found in a filthy apartment imitating the cats and dogs she was shut up with has been placed in state custody as authorities consider neglect charges against her father and other relatives.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the West on Sunday not to meddle in relations between Russia and Ukraine, according to remarks cited by state-run news agencies.
Russia and the European Union failed to agree Friday on measures to prevent another cutoff of gas supplies to Europe.
Oleg Yankovsky, a charismatic and versatile actor who was one of Russia's most beloved stage and screen stars, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 65.
Russia announced Tuesday it has created a commission to fight what President Dmitry Medvedev says are efforts to hurt his country by falsifying history — part of a campaign to promote the Kremlin's views and silence those who question them.
A dumptruck decorated with a Russian flag rattles down a dirt track on a massive fenced-in field, kicking up a plume of dust.
The Kremlin favorite won an overwhelming victory in the mayoral election in the Russian city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, an official said Monday, but the top opposition candidate claimed fraud and said he would challenge the result.
The Kremlin favorite won an overwhelming victory in the mayoral election in Sochi, the Russian city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, an election official said Monday. An opposition candidate called the vote a fraud and vowed to challenge the result.
The Kremlin favorite won an overwhelming victory in the mayoral election in Sochi, the Russian city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, an election official said Monday. An opposition candidate called the vote a fraud and vowed to challenge the result.
President Dmitry Medvedev's first meeting with Barack Obama brought Russia a shot of prestige, upbeat headlines about nuclear-arms cuts and a powerful signal that Moscow has the ear of the new U.S. president.
A senior U.S. official said Friday that Kyrgyzstan and Washington have agreed to continue talks over a key American air base that American forces had been told to leave within six months.
Russian police were investigating Monday after a Kremlin critic running for mayor of the city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics said he was doused with ammonia in an attack he blamed on the government.
President Dmitry Medvedev expressed confidence Tuesday that Russia and the U.S. can mend badly frayed relations, the latest upbeat talk from Moscow before his first meeting with President Barack Obama.
Russia issued a DVD and a thick book of historical documents on Wednesday to dispute claims that the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s amounted to genocide.
Bolivia will receive helicopters from Russia to help fight drugs and assistance to develop energy resources in the poor South American country, the Russian president said Monday.
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