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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›
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›
PUTIN FACING MULTI-MILLION POUND LEGAL ACTION OVER ALLEGED ROLE IN MH17 CRASH
The evidence at the crash site will not tell you if it was a Ukraine or Russian operator of the Buk launcher... 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›
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›
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›
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›
RUSSIA 'ACCIDENTALLY REVEALS' NUMBER OF ITS SOLDIERS KILLED IN EASTERN UKRAINE
Russia accidentally reveals number of its soldiers killed 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›
RUSSIAN TOWN NEAR UKRAINE ONCE QUIET NOW BUZZES WITH MILITARY ACTIVITY
A year after the war started in southeastern Ukraine, the Russian military has largely abandoned efforts to disguise its activities along the border with Ukraine... 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›
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›
COSSACKS FACE GRIM REPRISALS FROM ONETIME ALLIES IN EASTERN UKRAINE
Under the czars, the Don Cossacks ruled as Russian vassals over the Wild Field, an area encompassing parts of southern Russia and eastern Ukraine... READ MORE›
ONE YEAR ON, MH17 EVIDENCE AGAINST SEPARATISTS APPEARS OVERWHELMING
A growing body of evidence suggests russian-backed separatists shot down malaysian airlines flight mh17 after mistaking it for a ukrainian military plane... 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›
'WE LIKE PARTISAN WARFARE.' CHECHENS FIGHTING IN UKRAINE
We like partisan warfare. chechens fighting in ukraine on both sides... 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›
DEFYING OBAMALAWMAKERS PRESS TOARM UKRAINE
While the United States has been providing nonlethal assistance, and American military instructors have begun training Ukrainian troops in western Ukraine, President Petro O... READ MORE›
POLISH LEADERS HAIL ARRIVAL OF U.S. TROOPS
We waited for decades' Polish leaders hail arrival of U.S. troops... 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›
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›
'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›
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›
IN CRIMEA A DISPUTED BEACH IS A SYMBOL OF CORRUPTION
In an interview, Mr. Skorik said Gurzuf residents had tired of the fact that in both Ukraine and now seemingly in Russia, citizens came last... READ MORE›