25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION

The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›

CRIMEANS BACK RUSSIAN TAKEOVER: IF THEY TRY TO TAKE IT BACK, I WILL FIGHT

There is popular support for Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait to integrate Crimea with mainland Russia... READ MORE›

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›

'RUSSIA'S SOUL IS MONARCHIC': TSARIST SCHOOL WANTS TO REVERSE 100 YEARS OF HISTORY

The school is the pet project of Konstantin Malofeyev, a mysterious Russian financier known as the Orthodox oligarch ... READ MORE›

RUSSIA AND THE WEST HAVE 'ENTERED A NEW COLD WAR'

Russia and the West have entered a new Cold War that could lead to growing confrontations across the globe, as Vladimir Putin challenges American international hegemony... READ MORE›

TRUMP APPEARS CONFUSED ON ISSUE OF RUSSIA IN UKRAINE

He's not going into Ukraine, O.K., just so you understand, Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee, said when the issue came up... READ MORE›

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?

Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... 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›

VLADIMIR PUTIN CANCELS PARIS TRIP AS DIPLOMATIC CRISIS OVER SYRIA DEEPENS

French diplomatic sources said the Kremlin pulled out after Mr Hollande refused to discuss anything at a planned bilateral meeting other than the Syrian crisis... READ MORE›

IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.

In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›

DOG SAVES CHILDREN S LIVES DURING ROAD RAGE SHOOTING

Mr. Putin said the line to Turkey could eventually be connected to a wellhead in Greece, if that could be economically justified by market conditions in Europe... READ MORE›

OBAMA SEES RUSSIA FAILING IN SYRIA EFFORT

Mr. Putin had to go into Syria not out of strength but out of weakness, because his client Mr. Assad was crumbling, Mr. Obama said... 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›

WILL TRUMP RESCUE THE OLIGARCH IN THE GILDED CAGE

Firtash has never stopped trying to influence Ukraine's fate from abroad... 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›

NEWS ANALYSIS IN PUTINS SYRIA INTERVENTION FEAR OF A WEAK GOVERNMENT HAND

That belief is widely shared in Russia, and is one reason for Mr. Putin's genuine popularity at home... 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›

SIXTEEN JEHOVAHS WITNESSES MAY BE RUSSIAS MOST PACIFIST EXTREMISTS

Russia's quickly expanding register of extremist materials, which grew from 1,000 entries to more than 3,000 in the past four years, has even prompted a federal pushback... READ MORE›

POLISH LEADERS HAIL ARRIVAL OF U.S. TROOPS

We waited for decades' Polish leaders hail arrival of U.S. troops... 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›

IN UKRAINE, GOOGLE TRANSLATES RUSSIA AS 'MORDOR' AND TOP DIPLOMAT'S NAME AS 'SAD LITTLE HORSE'

At least one major Ukrainian news outlet, Ukrainska Pravda, uses Google Translate to switch its entire site into Russian as its articles are published online... 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›

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

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

SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN

Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›

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

BUK MISSILE DOWNED MH17 IN UKRAINE

Dutch report Buk missile downed MH17 in Ukraine... READ MORE›

RUSSIA FIRES MISSILES FROM WARSHIPS INTO SYRIA AMID NEW GROUND OFFENSIVE

Russia fires missiles from warships into Syria amid new ground offensive... READ MORE›

PUTIN CAN'T SEEM TO FIND A 'NATIONAL IDEA' FOR RUSSIANS, SO HE'S PROPOSING A LAW TO DO IT.

Putin! Outside the Kremlin, Putin unveiled a large statue of Grand Prince Vladimir, who according to legend converted eastern Slavs to Orthodox Christianity in 988... READ MORE›