It was the day Russian state television aired the Soviet classic movie 'Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears' and the night its strongman leader Vladimir Putin appeared misty-eyed before the nation.

The

Russians started voting on Sunday in presidential polls likely to return strongman Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term amid protests unseen since the Soviet era.

Voters in the far e

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Sunday cast his ballot in presidential elections he is expected to win, boasting he had come straight from sport and accompanied by his rarely-seen wife Lyudmila.

Put

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won a six-year term as Russia's president in an election on Sunday, exit polls showed.

Putin won 58.3 per cent of the vote, enough to avoid a second-round runoff, an exi

Russia's Vladimir Putin promised he would not crack down on Russia's burgeoning opposition movement following his likely election as president on Sunday, but rejected protesters' calls for early parli

Vladimir Putin made a show of confidence ahead of Sunday's poll that is set to see him win back the Russian presidency, belittling the opposition as lacking in vision and brushing off protests.

The p

Vladimir Putin followed in the footsteps of Russia's tsars when he interrupted his presidential election campaign to seek the blessing of the Virgin of Tikhvin, a Byzantine icon which believers say wo

Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has requested the opposition leaders to refrain from using 'dirty devices' during the upcoming election.

"We know that some are prepar

Russia's and Ukraine's secret services have arrested two men over a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin after the March 4 presidential elections, Channel One state television said on Mon

Thousands of Russians linked hands on Sunday around Moscow in a symbolic protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's expected return to the Kremlin for a third term in elections next weekend.

A d