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Summary: At least 31 people killed and scores injured in a suspected suicide blast at the Russian capital's busiest airport. At least31 people have been killed andaround 130 injured in [...]

Summary: At least 600 people held in Minsk as police crack down on opposition protesters in the wake of a presidential election. Authorities in Belarus have jailed at least 600 [...]

Summary: Police armed with batons disperse opposition demonstrators as incumbent president looks set for re-election. As many as 10,000 protesters have taken to the streets of Minsk, the Belarussian capital, [...]

11/22/2010 1:53:26 PM Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, is heading to Russia for a visit set to underscore the increasingly close relationship between two of the world's largest economies. [...]

11/9/2010 9:50:01 AM A Russian journalist has been beaten up in Moscow, the capital, two days after a brutal attack on a reporter for a major newspaper shocked the country. [...]

9/9/2010 10:51:45 PM Russian police have detained three men on suspicion of involvement in a deadly suicide attack at a busy marketplace in North Ossetia. The announcement came as the [...]

9/10/2010 1:55:40 PM Russia's president has vowed tough action against those responsible for a deadly bombing in the North Caucasus, while a rebel leader has urged fighters to carry out [...]

9/9/2010 10:51:45 PM Russian police have detained three people with suspected links to a suicide bombing in Russia's North Ossetia that killed at least 17 people and left more than [...]

9/9/2010 8:19:29 AM At least 16 people have been killed and 114 others wounded in an apparent car suicide bombing in a market in Vladikavkaz, a major city in Russia's [...]

8/6/2010 1:08:53 PM A dense smog from raging wildfires has enveloped Moscow, grounding flights at the city's airports and causing many residents and tourists to wear face masks. Airborne pollutants [...]

8/4/2010 9:39:11 AM The death toll from wildfires that have wiped out forests and villages in western Russia has risen to at least 48, officials have said. Almost 403 new [...]

7/9/2010 12:46:54 PM Russia and the United States have completed a dramatic spy swap involving 10 Russian agents arrested in the US last month and four people convicted of spying [...]

7/9/2010 12:46:54 PM Russia and the United States have completed a dramatic spy swap involving 10 Russian agents arrested in the US last month and four people convicted of spying [...]

6/29/2010 11:21:40 AM Moscow has reacted angrily to US claims that it has broken up a Russian spy ring operating in the country, saying that the accusations were 'baseless and [...]

6/29/2010 1:46:13 AM US authorities have arrested 10 people for allegedly serving for years as deep cover secret agents of Russia's SVR intelligence agency, with the goal of penetrating US [...]

5/18/2010 1:57:53 PM Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian former oil tycoon, has gone on hunger strike over what he claims is an illegal extension of his prison sentence. Khodorkovsky has been [...]

4/5/2010 3:09:48 PM A 28-year-old female school teacher may have been the second of two suicide bombers who killed 40 people on the Moscow metro last week, according to a [...]

4/5/2010 3:09:48 PM A 28-year-old female school teacher may have been the second of two suicide bombers who killed 40 people on the Moscow metro last week, according to a [...]

4/5/2010 6:05:01 AM At least two police officers have been killed in the Russian republic of Ingushetia after a suicide bomb went off near a police headquarters, officials have said. [...]

4/2/2010 1:32:54 PM The 17-year-old widow of a North Caucasus fighter has been confirmed by Russian security officials as one of the suicide bombers who attacked the Moscow metro system [...]

4/2/2010 1:32:54 PM The 17-year-old widow of a North Caucasus fighter has been confirmed by Russian security officials as one of the suicide bombers who attacked the Moscow metro system [...]

3/31/2010 5:17:48 PM Doku Umarov, a Chechen separatist leader, has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings in the Moscow metro that killed at least 39 people on Monday, according to [...]

3/31/2010 5:53:53 AM At least 12 people have been killed and another 18 injured in two bomb blasts in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, two days after a deadly attack [...]

3/30/2010 3:21:53 AM Russian leaders have pledged to 'find and wipe out' those behind twin suicide bombings at metro stations in Moscow that killed 39 people and left scores injured. [...]

3/26/2010 2:40:17 PM Barack Obama, the US president, and Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, have finalised the terms of a new nuclear arms reduction agreement. The two leaders approved the [...]

3/19/2010 6:19:53 AM The so-called Quartet of Middle East negotiators has met in Moscow, amid rising tensions between Israel and the US over Israel's plans to build 1,600 new settler [...]

3/18/2010 4:02:08 PM Russia and the United States have made 'substantial progress' in negotiating a new nuclear arms disarmament deal, the US secretary of state has said. Hillary Clinton said [...]

3/9/2010 12:05:35 PM US and Russian negotiators are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate a treaty aimed at reducing their nuclear weapons arsenals. The two powers are hoping to find [...]

2/24/2010 4:46:37 PM A Russian official has indicated that Moscow could support new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, but not ones as severe as Western countries and Israel [...]

2/8/2010 1:52:51 PM Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's pro-Russian opposition leader, has claimed a slender win in presidential elections but Yulia Tymoshenko, his bitter rival in Sunday's runoff for the post, has [...]

2/8/2010 1:52:51 PM Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine's pro-Russian opposition leader, has claimed a slender win in presidential elections but Yulia Tymoshenko, his bitter rival in Sunday's runoff for the post, has [...]

12/2/2009 8:41:09 AM Islamist separatists have claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Russian express train that killed 26 people and injured another 100, according to a letter posted on [...]

10/13/2009 2:39:33 AM Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has held talks in Moscow with Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, in a bid to press for Russian support to [...]

10/13/2009 10:07:54 AM The US believes this is not the time to impose more sanctions against Iran as part of its push to get the country to end its nuclear [...]

9/17/2009 2:46:52 PM The US has halted the missile defence shield programme in Europe devised under former President George Bush, saying the threat from Iran's long-range missiles was not as [...]

9/17/2009 2:46:52 PM The US has halted the missile defence shield programme in Europe devised under former President George Bush, saying the threat from Iran's long-range missiles was not as [...]

9/17/2009 2:46:52 PM The US has halted the missile defence shield programme in Europe devised under former President George Bush, saying the threat from Iran's long-range missiles was not as [...]

8/21/2009 10:50:02 AM At least four policemen have been killed in two suicide bomb attacks in the capital of Russia's mainly Muslim republic of Chechnya, officials said. Ruslan Alkhanov, the [...]

8/13/2009 12:43:02 PM The Arctic Sea, a 4,000 tonne cargo ship that mysteriously disappeared off the coast of France two weeks ago, is reported to have been located near Gibraltar [...]

7/22/2009 8:46:20 AM Joe Biden, the US vice president, is set to arrive in Georgia in an effort to convey support for the country - despite Washington's attempts at renewing [...]

7/21/2009 12:11:41 PM Washington 'strongly supports' Ukraine's plans to join the Nato military alliance, the US vice-president has said during a visit to the former Soviet republic. 'We do not [...]

7/22/2009 8:46:20 AM Joe Biden, the US vice president, has arrived in Georgia for talks with leaders in an effort to convey support for the country - despite Washington's recent [...]

7/21/2009 12:11:41 PM The US 'strongly supports' Ukraine's plans to join Nato, the US vice president has said during a visit to the former Soviet republic. 'We do not recognise [...]

7/16/2009 4:42:17 AM A Russian human rights group has blamed Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed president, for the kidnap and murder of an award-winning activist. Natalia Estemirova's body was found on [...]

7/7/2009 7:48:58 AM Barack Obama, the US president, has called for Russia and America to unite in efforts to prevent North Korea and Iran from developing their nuclear ambitions. The [...]

7/6/2009 8:15:46 AM Barack Obama, the US president, and Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, are expected to announce a framework deal on weapons reductions during talks in Moscow. Officials have [...]

6/25/2009 8:41:26 AM Russia's supreme court has ordered a retrial of three men cleared of being involved in the murder of prominent journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006. Dzhabrail and Ibragim [...]

5/5/2009 3:01:02 PM Russia has dismissed as 'insane' claims that it was behind a mutiny at a military base in Georgia on the eve of Nato war games planned in [...]

4/22/2009 2:59:37 PM Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, has begun a blog on a popular internet site, in his latest public relations move after calling for greater government openness. He made [...]

4/22/2009 2:59:37 PM Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, has begun a blog on a popular internet site, in his latest public relations move after calling for greater government openness. He made [...]