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›
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›
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
Ruslan Sokolovsky, a blogger who played Pokemon Go on his phone in a church, attends a hearing at a court in Yekaterinburg on March 13... READ MORE›
They did, and by the '70s Islam had made a comeback in much of Central Asia... READ MORE›
MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›
But Russia, which began its air campaign in Syria last Monday, showed no sign that it was backing down... READ MORE›
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
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›
In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›
That belief is widely shared in Russia, and is one reason for Mr. Putin's genuine popularity at home... READ MORE›
It also warned against violating Turkey's airspace, saying in a statement after the meeting that the allies 'note the extreme danger of such irresponsible behaviour.'... READ MORE›
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›
The town of Sokh, for example, is part of Uzbekistan, but fully surrounded by Kyrgyzstan, and its 20,000 population are almost entirely ethnic Tajiks... READ MORE›
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›
In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE›
MOSCOW -- Islam Karimov, a ruthless autocrat who ruled Uzbekistan for almost three decades, died on Friday in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent... READ MORE›
Tatyana Chaynikova, 68, stands in her apartment in a khrushchevka building in the Belyayevo district of Moscow... READ MORE›
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›
The Yeltsin Center celebrates liberties won in a decade that many Russians would rather forget... READ MORE›
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
Britain, Russia and the United States had sought to come to a consensus on the text in recent days... READ MORE›
Nazi 'gold train' Treasure could be claimed by Russia as compensation for Second World War... READ MORE›
It is far from clear that the arms embargo will be a deal stopper... READ MORE›
He called the Free Syrian Army a phantom group, adding that nothing is known about it... READ MORE›
To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›
The new tensions between Russia and Turkey over Syria have highlighted a deeply complex relationship between the two countries... READ MORE›
Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›
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