At a dinner Wednesday, Vladimir Putin suggested that writer Boris Akunin has joined the opposition due to his Georgian heritage. Today, Akunin fired back.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged Russia not to build up military near the alliance's borders, calling such a move “a complete waste” of finances.
Orthodox Christians in Kazan participated in the annual tradition of swimming in the icy waters of Kaban Lake to mark Epiphany on January 19. (Video by RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service)
A former British official has admitted for the first time that Britain did use a fake rock fitted with electronic equipment to spy on Russia.
A German envoy has accused Russia of preventing the United Nations Security Council from taking decisive action in response to the Syrian government’s deadly crackdown on protesters.
Putin said some opposition figures had been invited for talks "not long ago," but had failed to come to the meeting.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Moscow will offer no explanation for suspected arms deliveries to Syria.
Russia's main state-owned television channel has accused Michael McFaul, the new U.S. ambassador, of being sent to destabilize the country, after he held meetings with members of the opposition.
Russian human rights activists plan to hold a concert next month to raise money to support political prisoners after holding a "For Fair Elections" march in Moscow.
It is as predictable as snow in a Russian winter. When Moscow has a tussle with one of its neighbors, Russian health officials suddenly discover something wrong with that country's exports.
The League of Voters, a new civic grouping designed to monitor fraud in Russia's March presidential election and founded by leading members of the cultural elite, is born.
The fragile political stability that followed the agreement signed in December between outgoing de facto South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity and Alla Dzhioyeva, whose victory in the runoff ballot to choose his successor was annulled by the breakaway republic's Supreme Court, is in jeopardy.
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