Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday vowed a ‘reasonable and adequate’ response to the US missile shield in Europe, viewed by Moscow as a mortal threat to the country's nuclear deterrent.

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Over $29 million (900 million rubles) will be allocated by 2015 to build Arctic rescue centres in Russia, the director of the department of fire safety and rescue force at the Emergency Situations Min

Malaysia plans to buy 18 Russian Su-30MKM fighters capable of carrying Russian-Indian BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, the Izvestia daily said on Tuesday.

The paper said, citing military sources,

Russia will train its army to play badminton to improve its battle prowess after the racket sport won a surprise personal endorsement from President Dmitry Medvedev, a newspaper said on Monday.

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Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin praised outgoing fellow political veteran Silvio Berlusconi on Friday and defended his own decision to remain in power for years to come in front of an audience o

Russian lawmakers have submitted a bill seeking a ban on hookah smoking in public places. The concentration of harmful substances in hookah smoke is considered a hundred times higher than in cigarette

Russia test launched a Topol RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, the defense ministry said.

It was launched at 10.45 a.m. from the Plesetsk Space Center and hit a designated target

Vladimir Putin pushed on Wednesday for closer integration among ex-Soviet states after the slide in Kiev's relations with Brussels and the surprise creation of a free trade zone in the former communis

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday sought to defend his controversial plan to seek a third mandate as president, saying Russia needed stability and was only a few steps from a return to t

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he wants to bring ex-Soviet states into a 'Eurasian Union' in an article which outlined his first foreign policy initiative as he prepares to return to the