When the trail of documentation ended, the suspect's "high-pitched" voice led the way.
The Siberian village of Loshchinka is plagued by alcoholism and unemployment, all-too-common symptoms of Russia’s crumbling countryside. So why did Russian President Vladimir Putin get every vote here during the recent presidential election?
Iran's supreme leader has compared Tehran's relationship with the United States to the American cartoon Tom And Jerry.
The Dutch-led international criminal investigation's conclusion that a missile from the Russian military downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014 has brought fresh scrutiny to a Russian brigade identified as the source of the weapon.
Distraught parents fear that officials told them their newborns were dead so they could be trafficked in the 1970s.
The floor of parliament erupted as hard-liners warned that joining a treaty to combat the financing of terrorism could leave Iranian officials exposed to an extradition risk and undermine Tehran's support for so-called resistance groups.
Lawmakers appear set to water down draft legislation that called for punishing Russian citizens who comply with Western sanctions, but they are backing proposed criminal prosecution of Russians deemed complicit in the imposition of foreign sanctions targeting Moscow.
One of the very few Russian regional or local officials openly critical of President Vladimir Putin has resigned as mayor of the country's fourth-largest city. Here's what you need to know about former Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman, and what might be next for him.
Retired FSB General Ivan Mironov, a KGB veteran from the 1970s, commands the pseudo-Cossack unit whose members were filmed beating anti-Putin protesters in Moscow on May 5. Although Mironov has tried to remake himself as a guardian of Russian Orthodox tradition, he is an old-school product of the Soviet security agencies with a murky history in the emergence of Russia's post-Soviet kleptocracy.
Belarus calls same-sex relationships “fake” in response to Britain raising a rainbow flag outside its embassy in Minsk.
Crimea's Russian-installed leaders have failed to live up to promises to free up public access to beaches.
The arrival to urban centers and the countryside of millions of Muslim labor migrants from Central Asia is at the center of what could emerge as Russia's most radical ethnic makeover in centuries.
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