A senior Russian official says there would be "no economic growth" in the country were it not for spending related to this summer's World Cup soccer tournament.
A spokesman for Ukraine's soccer federation has said the organization will skip a meeting of world soccer's governing body scheduled to be held in Moscow this summer.
Prominent Russian lawyer Mark Feigin says he will appeal in court his disbarment for allegedly unethical behavior.
The European Commission is set to single out Russia directly for what it calls Moscow's "information warfare" as part of EU efforts to fight back against online disinformation campaigns considered a threat to European security.
As many as 37 wildfires have been reported in Siberia and Russia's Far East, sweeping across more than 4,200 hectares of land.
Russia's Supreme Court has upheld the verdict against opposition politician Aleksei Navalny and his brother Oleg in the so-called Yves Rocher case.
A former director of Moscow's embattled Gogol Center theater, who is charged with embezzlement and fraud in a case that has sent a chill through Russian culture, will be transferred from pretrial jail to house arrest.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has called on Russia, Iran, and Turkey to do more to scale down the fighting in Syria.
The media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is warning that violations of press freedom are no longer the practice of authoritarian regimes and dictatorships.
Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament, held a series of meetings with Bosnian Serb officials on a visit to Banja Luka on April 24.
The Moscow Chamber of Attorneys has disbarred prominent lawyer Mark Feygin for allegedly unethical behavior.
Russian state-run television used 18-month-old images from a film set in Syria to illustrate reports alleging that suspected chemical attacks are being staged in the war-torn country.
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