President Vladimir Putin warned the west against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia “doesn’t exclude” supporting a United Nations resolution on punitive military strikes if it is proved that Damascus used poison gas on its own people.

The wreckage of a missing Russian passenger jet was found on the slopes of Mount Salak, a volcano south of Jakarta, in Indonesia.

All of the dozens aboard were killed when the plane slammed into a mo

For years, kopek-pinching Soviets sat down in a cheap restaurant in a former mansion of the nobility for plain meals, unaware of the treasure secreted nearby.

Workers restoring the building this week

The brutal rape and death of a Russian man in police custody has prompted scores of other hesitant victims to come forward and denounce brutality they had been to frightened to report before.

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A Russian headmistress lost her job because she revealed that her colleagues came under heavy pressure to attend a Moscow rally backing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's presidential bid, she said.

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Russia's award-winning newsreader, Tatyana Limanova, has been taken off air after a video of her lifting the middle finger following a Barack Obama report went viral on the Web.

The clip shows Limano

World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out a quick draw with world cup champion Peter Svidler of Russia in the second round of Tal Memorial Chess tournament.

It turned out to be another uneventful d

Indian tennis ace Somdev Devveraman finally broke his first round jinx as he beat Slovakian Karol Beck in straight sets to advance to the second round of the St Petersburg Open.

Somdev steamrolled hi

A St. Petersburg woman barricaded herself in her apartment, throwing glassware and spraying tear gas at bailiffs who arrived to take her 11 dogs away and let her parents return home, authorities said.

Russian rescuers said on Monday the bodies of 40 children may be trapped in the playroom of a pleasure boat that went down with up to 130 people on board in a heavy Volga River storm.

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