The U.S. State Department has confirmed that Aleksandr Bortnikov, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), will be part of a Russian delegation at the Obama administration's antiextremism conference in Washington.
Ukraine has called for UN-mandated peacekeepers to enforce a shaky cease-fire deal in the country’s east after Ukrainian troops withdrew from the strategic town of Debaltseve following intense fighting.
The Russian punk art collective Pussy Riot has released its first English-language video, a tribute to an African-American who died after being placed in a chokehold by a New York police officer.
The Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman said that the republic's security authorities maintained a database of residents of Chechnya who are fighting in Syria.
Moldova’s parliament has approved a new pro-EU prime minister, 38-year-old businessman Chiril Gaburici, despite concerns of possible backlash from Russia.
The ongoing preparations to celebrate in September 2015 the 2,000th anniversary of the Caspian town of Derbent constitute a classic example of the late Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's aphorism: "We wanted the best possible, but it turned out the way it always does."
Two members of Pussy Riot have released a new English-language music video dedicated to Eric Garner, an unarmed African American who was killed when a New York City police officer put him in a fatal chokehold.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said government forces were completing a "planned and organized" withdrawal from the eastern town of Debaltseve, which has been at the epicenter of fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian militants in recent weeks.
A former deputy prime minister of Crimea's Russia-backed government is suspected of theft.
Russia and Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia have signed a "border agreement" opposed by Tbilisi.
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