French actor and newly minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu yesterday compared President Vladimir Putin with the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent was what Russia needed as a...
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- May 23, 2013
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19 May 2013
The inquest into the death in Britain of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was close to collapse yesterday after the coroner ruled he could not hear evidence about the alleged role of the...
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9 May 2013
Israel warned the United States in recent days that Russia plans to sell advanced ground-to-air missile systems to Syria despite Western pressure on Moscow to hold off on such a move, the Wall...
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7 May 2013
About 20,000 protesters thronged Bolotnaya Square across from the Kremlin on Monday, a year after a protest at the same spot turned violent on the eve of President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration....
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2 May 2013
China and Russia, two of the world's pre-eminent authoritarian states, just don't get soft power. That, at least, is what Joseph Nye, the Harvard international relations guru who coined the term,...
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29 Apr 2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged on Monday to renew efforts to find a solution to a decades-long territorial row that has prevented the two sides...
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A former Olympic official who fled Russia after President Vladimir Putin criticised him for delays and cost overruns before the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi claims he has been poisoned.
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Two men in their early twenties lie face down in the snow with their hands tied behind their backs and heads doused with dark red paint. A dozen young men, some wearing surgical masks, smash a car...
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The Ministry of Public Security says the four are all Chinese citizens and were seized in China and Russia following joint investigations by police in both countries.
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Thirty-eight people, mostly psychiatric patients, were killed in a fire that raged on Friday at a psychiatric hospital in the Moscow region, trapping the inmates inside behind barred windows.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday holds his first nationwide phone-in with Russians since he returned to the Kremlin for a third term against the background of protests and a crackdown that...
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Update: The Russian rescuers may need to hold their horses -- or aircraft -- as well. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said on Monday that she did not know of any foreign rescue teams in...
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