BELARUS BRISTLES AT KAZAKHSTAN'S OFFER TO HOST UKRAINE TALKS

MINSK, Belarus AP -- Belarus on Friday mocked Kazakhstan's suggestion that it could serve as a new venue for Ukraine peace talks previously hosted by Minsk... READ MORE›

UKRAINE FIGHTING PAUSES BRIEFLY FOR BIG PRISONER EXCHANGE

The Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists swapped captives from a conflict in eastern Ukraine that has been going on since 2014... READ MORE›

RUSSIA CONDEMNS US MOVE TO SELL WEAPONS TO UKRAINE

Russian officials said the US decision to supply weapons to Ukraine was dangerous and will encourage Kiev to use force in eastern Ukraine... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S LAST DICTATOR WANTS TO RUN A GLOBAL CRYPTO HUB

And all digital tokens, as Belarus seeks to become a global hub for raising funds via so-called initial coin offerings, or ICOs... READ MORE›

MOSCOW SHOW SMASHES MYTH OF DRAB SOVIET DESIGN

With the fall of the Soviet Union, most factories and research institutes were privatised... READ MORE›

100 YEARS ON FROM THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

In its turn, the events of October Revolution were orchestrated by Bolsheviks who overturned the interim provisional government and established the Soviet Union... READ MORE›

PUTIN OPENS FIRST SOVIET VICTIMS MEMORIAL

President Vladimir Putin has unveiled Russia's first monument to people killed in political repression under Communist dictator Joseph Stalin... READ MORE›

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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›

NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE 2016: BOB DYLAN NAMED WINNER

US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition ... 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›

ISLAMIC BATTALIONS STOCKED WITH CHECHENS AID UKRAINE IN WAR WITH REBELS

In Ukraine, the Dzhokhar Dudayev and Sheikh Mansur units are mostly Chechen, but they include Muslims from other former Soviet areas, such as Uzbeks and Balkars... READ MORE›

HOW EUROPES LAST DICTATORSHIP BECAME A TECH HUB

Minsk, the capital of Belarus, is home to more than 30,000 tech workers, and many of them are creating mobile apps used across the world... READ MORE›

UKRAINE CLASHES LEAVE SEVERAL DEAD AND TEST TRUMP'S RUSSIA STANCE

The violence is an early test of Donald Trump's stated desire for better US relations with Russia... 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›

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

IRAN TROOPS TO JOIN SYRIA WAR, RUSSIA BOMBS GROUP TRAINED BY CIA

At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference Moscow was targeting Islamic State... READ MORE›

OBAMA AND PUTIN TO MEET NEXT WEEK WHITE HOUSE SAYS

Mr. Obama canceled a summit meeting with Mr. Putin that fall after Russia gave shelter to Edward J... 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›

'WE LAUNCH SYRIA AIR STRIKES IN ONE HOUR. STAY OUT OF THE WAY'

Vladimir putin orders airforce into action over syria in first russian war in middle east since end of soviet union... READ MORE›

PUTIN STARTS WAR GAME ON NATO FRONTIER ALARMING A WARY EUROPE

That estimate includes joint exercises in Kaliningrad, Russia's nuclear-armed enclave on the Baltic Sea that's nestled between Poland and Lithuania... READ MORE›

RUSSIAS WAR GAMES WITH FAKE ENEMIES CAUSE REAL ALARM

Joint Russian and Belarusian military exercises will target fictional countries that look an awful lot like the Baltic States... READ MORE›

BELARUS WANTED TO TAX ITS UNEMPLOYED 'PARASITES.' THEN THE PROTESTS STARTED.

Thousands gather for a protest on Feb. 17, 2017, in downtown Minsk, Belarus, against a law that imposes a tax on those without full-time employment... READ MORE›

CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS

Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›

RIOT POLICE IN BELARUS ATTACK PROTESTERS CALLING FOR END TO 'DICTATORSHIP'

Crackdown by President Lukashenko follows two months of demonstrations against his 23-year rule... READ MORE›

READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH

Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›

VLADIMIR PUTIN VOWS THAT UNITED STATES 'WILL NEVER SUBJUGATE RUSSIA'

Before his speech on Tuesday, the Russian leader was shown a new military vehicle described as a cross between a car and an armoured personnel carrier... READ MORE›

US CONFIRMS IT WILL PLACE 250 TANKS IN EASTERN EUROPE TO COUNTER RUSSIAN THREAT

Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland will host equipment, says Ash Carter, the US defence secretary... READ MORE›

PUTIN SAYS WEST IS PROVOKING RUSSIA INTO NEW COLD WAR AS SPIES DEPORTED

Photograph Tass Barcroft Vladimir Putin has suggested to a German interviewer that the west is provoking Russia into a new cold war... READ MORE›

RUSSIA COMPLAINS OVER 'GAY BAR' ON PRESIDENT'S PLOT IN FINLAND

The archipelago lies between Finland and Sweden, but one uninhabited property is owned by the Russian presidency, having once been owned by a German-Finnish couple... READ MORE›

RUSSIA FUELLING UKRAINE WAR, SAYS US

Meanwhile, Ukraine's defence minister has said that government forces are redeploying in preparation for a possible new offensive by pro-Russian separatist rebels... READ MORE›

'NAZI GOLD TRAIN' FOUND IN POLAND COULD BELONG TO RUSSIA AS COMPENSATION FOR WW2

Nazi 'gold train' Treasure could be claimed by Russia as compensation for Second World War... READ MORE›

KEY PEACE TALKS IN MINSK CALLED OFF

Irish independent ukraine peace talks end in minsk 34 hrs ago... READ MORE›

PRESIDENT POROSHENKO'S THREAT AFTER REBEL POLLS

More on This Story Pro-Russian rebels control broad swathes of eastern Ukraine and a fragile ceasefire with government forces could end at any time... READ MORE›

WHY RUSSIA IS IN SYRIA

Russian President Vladimir Putin right and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow's Kremlin on Dec... 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›

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›