Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 22:27
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said gays need not fear persecution at the Winter Olympic Games, but stood by a controversial ban on promoting homosexuality to children.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 13:47
US journalist David Satter, a longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has said he had been banned from the country in one of the first such expulsions since the Cold War.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 20:44
Russian officials told visiting US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Friday that Moscow would continue backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad`s campaign against rebel forces despite peace talks due later this month.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 18:33
Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was freed by Moscow last month after a decade in jail, has travelled from Switzerland to Israel on a private visit, his spokesman said Friday.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 03:16
All carry-on liquids will be banned at Moscow`s three international airports ahead of next month`s Winter Olympics in Sochi for security concern, the Russian flight authority posted the decision Wednesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 16:04
Moscow`s two main international airports Wednesday announced a flat ban on all carry-on liquids as part of a mass security clampdown ahead of next month`s Sochi Winter Games.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 14:11
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed a decree lifting a blanket ban on political protests at the Sochi Winter Olympics, bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 21:08
Russian President Vladimir Putin is hitting the ski slopes - flying to Sochi to challenge the mountains that will host the Winter Games next month.
Last Updated: Monday, December 30, 2013, 20:13
Russia said on Monday that most of the passengers and some of the crew stranded on a scientific expedition ship off Antarctica will be evacuated by a Chinese helicopter should the weather allow.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 17:00
At least 10 people were killed and three were wounded on Sunday by an explosion at a railway station in southern Russia, officials said, heightening concern about terrorism ahead of February`s Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 08:12
Deadly toxins that were to have been removed from Syria by December 31 under an international effort to rid the country of its chemical arsenal have not yet been delivered to port to be put on ships, a Russian diplomat was quoted as saying on Friday.
Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 14:23
The two freed members of anti-Kremlin Russian punk group Pussy Riot arrived back in Moscow on Friday after reuniting in Siberia, ahead of holding their first news conference since their release earlier this week.
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