Massive Far East quake felt in Moscow, no casualties

Russia regards as a "positive development" reports that North Korea is willing to return to six-party talks on the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, a Russian diplomat said.China's Xinhua news agency and South Korea's Yonhap reported Friday that Choe ...

Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social networking website, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake Friday, an official said."This was a mistake. Our employee put a tick in the wrong place," said Vladimir Pikov, spokesman for Russia's ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's oldest human rights group went to court on Friday to try to stop state prosecutors forcing it to register as a "foreign agent" under a law it says is intended by President Vladimir Putin to silence dissent. Memorial, which... Email ...

Russia, India's oldest defence ally and longstanding nuclear technology partner, do not want India to treat Russia does not want to be treated on the same lines with other countries which had put sanctions against India following the 1998 nuclear testwhile ...

Russia's top online social network was banned on Friday from distributing content across the country. RELATED MOSCOW: Russia's top online social network was banned on Friday from distributing content across the country, raising concerns of a clampdown on a ...

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Baku, May 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Azerbaijan will join neither NATO nor the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), but is prepared to cooperate with both, a presidential aide said. "As Azerbaijan has been participating in NATO's Partnership ...

The Syrian government has agreed to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the country's civil war, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday, the first sign that President Bashar Assad's regime would be willing to take part in ...

The international police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian push to locate and arrest a Britain-based investor who is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's regime. France-based Interpol said in a statement Friday it has "deleted all information in ...