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Moscow, May 19: Russia's children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov has said Moscow may change its adoption agreement with France in response to the country's .Earlier Saturday French President Francois Hollande signed into law a controversial bill ...

Moscow - A 23-year-old man has been tortured to death in Russia in an apparent homophobic attack, investigators said on Sunday, amid growing fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise in the country. The victim's battered and ...

When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Moscow recently to discuss the deepening crisis in Syria, he brought with him the hope that the severity of events in the Middle East would finally be sufficient to spur Russia to reconsider its rigid ...

MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) Russian banking community experts expressed skepticism over bribery accusations brought against the head of Rosbank, the Russian unit of French banking giant Societe Generale, following a police raid on his office on ...

MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 50 kilograms (110 lbs) of heroin were discovered on a train en route from the Tajik capital of Dushanbe to Moscow on Wednesday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. The amount is equal to 500 ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has been unusually silent about the expulsion of a U.S. diplomat Russia says it caught red-handed trying to recruit an agent for the CIA. But Putin need not say anything - his pliant state media is doing the talking ...

MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia and the United States agreed to seek new peace talks with both sides to end Syria's civil war, but opposition leaders were skeptical on Wednesday of an initiative they fear might let President Bashar al-Assad hang on ...

MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will resort to the European Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons in case the United States turn down appeals from jailed Russian nationals Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, Russian Foreign ...

Moscow, May 4 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia's chief public health official Gennady Onishchenko has recommended the country's nationals not to visit China where a new strain of bird flu is spreading."Now there's not need to ban (visits to China) but ...