Kremlin foe Garry Kasparov says President Vladimir Putin is resorting to "external aggression" and increased confrontation with the West to bolster his image as Russia's leader and maintain a "dictatorship" in the country.
Police in Germany have conducted raids in five regions as part of a probe into alleged extremism by asylum-seekers from the Russian region of Chechnya.
When a KGB agent tried to recruit an activist for Latvian independence in 1988, she ended up "recruiting" him. (Mumin Shakirov, RFE/RL's Russian Service)
Some 80 international human-rights nongovernmental organizations have issued a statement urging United Nations countries to consider whether Russia's role in Syria "renders it unfit to serve" on the UN Human Rights Council.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on October 24 he is concerned about renewed fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo after a break of several days, the State Department said.
The United States will deploy more than 300 troops in Norway, the Norwegian government announced on October 24, in a move likely to upset neighboring Russia.
A court in Russia's North Caucasus has sentenced a Daghestani Islamic cleric to prison on terrorism charges.
Ivan the Terrible was the first ruler to be called the "Tsar of All the Russias," but not all Russians today agree on the legacy of the 16th-century monarch.
Moscow supports the idea of creating an armed Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) police mission in eastern Ukraine but cast doubt that such a force could be formed soon.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the upper chamber of Russia's parliament has approved legislation suspending a Russia-U.S. agreement on the disposal of plutonium.
Fighting has resumed in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a day after the end of a 72-hour "humanitarian" cease-fire that had been declared by Damascus and its main ally, Russia.
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