Russian President Vladimir Putin has said more US-Russian prisoner exchanges are possible.
Mr Putin spoke a day after Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was swapped...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the country’s nuclear arsenals as a deterrent factor in the Ukrainian conflict but demurred when challenged to make...
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled prosecution after revealing highly classified surveillance programmes, has received a Russian passport and taken the citizenship...
Belarus’s foreign minister Vladimir Makei, a long-time associate of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, has died at the age of 64.
Authorities did not name the...
Russian legislators have given their final approval to a bill that significantly expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting gay rights in the country.
The...
Towering clouds of ash and glowing lava are spewing from two volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and scientists say major eruptions could be on...
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a one-man cell, according to a post on his social media account.
Mr Navalny was...
The Ukrainian military carried out “stabilisation measures” near the southern city of Kherson on Saturday following the end of an eight-month occupation by Russian...
