VLADIMIR PUTIN DRAFTS 150,000 CONSCRIPTS INTO THE RUSSIAN MILITARY

The Americans accused Russia of striking moderate rebel factions fighting Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime under cover of their claimed assault on the Islamic State group... READ MORE›

VLADIMIR PUTIN ACCUSES US OF BACKING TERRORISM IN MIDDLE EAST

Putin said he asked Assad how he would react if Russia "found armed opposition groups who are really ready to fight terrorists" ..... READ MORE›

VLADIMIR PUTIN IS FORBES MAGAZINE'S MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN THE WORLD

The 63-year-old Russian president has, unsurprisingly, retained his position at the top of the Forbes ranking of the world's most powerful people... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN ACTOR AND PUTIN CRITIC FOUND DEAD IN MOSCOW

However, Mr Devotchenko's outspoken criticism of the rule of Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, is likely to provoke intense scrutiny over how and why he died... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN GROUPS CROWDFUND THE WAR IN UKRAINE

Nearly all the fund-raising groups solicit donations through QIWI, a virtual payment company founded in 2004 and later incorporated, like many Russian companies, in Cyprus... READ MORE›

TURKEY DOWNING OF RUSSIA JET 'STAB IN THE BACK'

Russian President Vladimir Putin has bitterly condemned the downing of a Russian jet on the Turkey-Syria border... READ MORE›

RUSSIA 'ACCIDENTALLY REVEALS' NUMBER OF ITS SOLDIERS KILLED IN EASTERN UKRAINE

Russia accidentally reveals number of its soldiers killed in eastern ukraine... READ MORE›

The West accuses Russia of sending arms and troops to back the rebels in eastern Ukraine... READ MORE›

RUSSIA 'MOVES WEAPONS SYSTEM INTO UKRAINE WHILE ATTENTION IS ON SYRIA'

Ukraine said it did not possess the Buratino... READ MORE›

PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'

Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›

ANGER, PROTESTS AS RUSSIA DESTROYS TONS OF BANNED FOOD

Local media in Smolensk in western Russia near the border with Belarus reported people gathering peaches that had remained whole and using them to make moonshine... READ MORE›

CONGRESS PROBING U.S. SPY AGENCIES' POSSIBLE LAPSES ON RUSSIA

A week after Russia plunged directly into Syria's civil war by launching a campaign of air strikes the intelligence committees of the U.S... READ MORE›

LET PUTIN BE YOUR FITNESS INSPIRATION HERO

Putinspiration Set up last week Putinspiration is a parody account on Instagram depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin engaging in various hard man activities... READ MORE›

RUSSIA 'TRIED TO CUT OFF' WORLD WIDE WEB

Russian officials denied any such experiment had taken place... READ MORE›

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT MOCKS PUTIN IN FRONT OF UNITED NATIONS

On Monday the Ukrainian delegation pointedly left the hall when Russian President Vladimir Putin started speaking... READ MORE›

MOSCOW JOURNAL A MOSCOW OF DANCING FEET UNDER AN IRON FIST

MOSCOW -- Russia's capital city has worn many outfits since the fall of the Soviet Union... READ MORE›

BERLUSCONI SAYS VLADIMIR PUTIN WANTS HIM TO BECOME RUSSIA'S ECONOMY MINISTER

But it seems Vladimir Putin's kindness to Silvio Berlusconi knows no bounds after he reportedly offered the former Italian leader the job of economy minister... READ MORE›

MARIUPOL JOURNAL SOUNDS OF WAR RECEDE TO BACKGROUND IN AN EASTERN UKRAINE CITY

Like many in Mariupol, he tries to read the mind of Russia's president, Vladimir V... READ MORE›

DEADLY RUSSIAN ROCKET SYSTEM SPOTTED IN UKRAINE FOR FIRST TIME

The report comes before President Vladimir Putin holds talks in Paris on Friday with the leaders of Germany, France and Ukraine on the peace process... READ MORE›

PRESIDENT OBAMA, RUSSIA'S PUTIN CLASH AT UNITED NATIONS OVER SYRIA

President obama russia's putin clash at united nations over syria... READ MORE›

'PUTIN IS OBSESSED WITH THE IDEA OF TESTING NATO'

Mikheil Saakashvili, enemy of Vladimir Putin who did much to implant democracy in Georgia, left the country in June, claiming he faced guaranteed imprisonment ... READ MORE›

VLADIMIR PUTIN LEAVES G20 AFTER LEADERS LINE UP TO BROWBEAT HIM OVER UKRAINE

Vladimir Putin leaves G20 after leaders line up to browbeat him over Ukraine... READ MORE›

The organization helped mediate peace talks between Russia and Ukraine that led to the Sept... READ MORE›

VLADIMIR PUTIN ANNOUNCES RUSSIA WILL ADD 40 NEW BALLISTIC MISSILES TO NUCLEAR ARSENAL IN 2015

Vladimir Putin announces Russia will add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal in 2015... READ MORE›

UKRAINE GUARDSMAN KILLED IN NATIONALIST PROTEST OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk also blamed Svoboda, which has its main power-bases in western Ukraine, while Poroshenko said pseudo-patriots had been behind the violence... READ MORE›

POLICE OFFICER IS KILLED DURING UKRAINE PROTESTS

The chamber approved the constitutional amendment in a first reading, with 265 lawmakers in the 450-member Parliament voting in favor of the so-called decentralization bill during a raucous session... READ MORE›

CIVILIANS, SOLDIERS DIE IN EAST UKRAINE FIGHTING AS PUTIN VISITS CRIMEA

In Moscow Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed Kiev for the violence giving no detail but saying he suspected Ukraine was preparing a new offensive... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN STATE TV REPORTER FIRED AFTER CRITICISING VLADIMIR PUTIN

Mr Goldenzweig said he was ousted from NTV shortly after giving the interview on June 8 to the Phoenix channel, in which he said that Mr Putin felt "insulted" ..... READ MORE›

RUSSIA FLEXES MUSCLE WITH BOMBER FLIGHTS NEAR U.S.

We have seen columns of Russian equipment, primarily Russian tanks, Russian artillery, Russian air defense systems and Russian combat troops entering into Ukraine, Breedlove said... READ MORE›

NADIA SAVCHENKO: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

A woman passes an election poster with a portrait of Nadia Savchenko, in Kiev, Ukraine How did she end up in Russia?... READ MORE›