Three of the six members of a gang suspected of carrying out high-profile robberies in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia have turned out to be police officers.

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The Russian parliament on Wednesday voted to approve a contentious bill that activists fear will introduce Internet censorship by blacklisting sites deemed as undesirable.

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A court has sentenced a young mother and her brother to eight years in prison after they admitted putting the woman's 9-month son on a four-lane highway in hopes he would get killed.

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The devastating floods that claimed at least 171 lives two months into President Vladimir Putin's third Kremlin term is expected to draw new attention to his handling of man-made and natural disasters.

Severe flash floods and a landslide in Russia's southern Krasnodar region have killed at least 103 people and affected nearly 13,000 in the area's worst natural disaster in decades, officials said o

Russia on Sunday scrambled to deal with the aftermath of devastating flash floods that killed at least 150 people and swept away homes in the southern Krasnodar region's worst natural disaster in hist

Flash floods in Russia's southern Krasnodar region have killed at least 78 people and affected nearly 13,000 in the area's worst natural disaster in decades, officials said Saturday.

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Russia on Monday unveiled the world's longest cable-stayed bridge as it put the finishing touches on a troubled multi-billion investment aimed at revitalising the country's distant Far East.

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India and Russia could be one of the first nations in the world to flight test hypersonic missiles, which fly at five to seven times the speed of sound.

India and Russia could be one of the first nations in the world to flight test hypersonic missiles, which fly at five to seven times the speed of sound.

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