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Thousands of people in Russia have protested against plans to introduce tighter restrictions on the internet.

As Donald Trump prepares to discuss denuclearisation with Kim Jong-un, Russia has revealed its list of US nuclear strike targets.

A tiny European country is about to be “absorbed” by Russia as the superpower prepares to make a geopolitical gamble. 

Despite years of Western sanctions, Russia will become the world’s fifth-largest economy as early as next year, surpassing Germany and the UK, multinational bank Standard Chartered said in its long-term growth forecasts.

Russia has revealed how it grew suspicious of a US man, who authorities have now charged as a spy, after he befriended several men and ignored attractive women.

Ukraine has accused Russia of ramming one of its boats off the coast of Crimea, amid rising naval tensions.

A Russian official said a student attacked a vocational college Wednesday in Crimea, a rampage that killed 17 other students and left more than 40 people wounded, before killing himself.

A Nigerian-born ‘prince’, who became a local celebrity in a small Russian steel-casting city after marrying a local woman and moving in, has died under murky circumstances, triggering a police investigation.

A decision to lift the suspension of Russia's anti-doping agency has been labelled "the greatest treachery against clean athletes".

However, while both states may oppose American hegemony, they pursue fundamentally different objectives for which neither would sacrifice itself to aid the other

FIX-it widgets, or weapons? Russia has sent at least four spidery drones into orbit, capable of flying about at will, and the US fears all may not be as its seems.
 

Eight kids from the Syrian “School for Late Heroes’ Children” have arrived to St. Petersburg and are now preparing themselves for studies in various Russian military schools, a popular daily reports.

Qatar, which has already negotiated the purchase of AK rifles, grenade launchers and anti-tank missiles from Russia, is also in talks to procure state-of-the-art S-400 systems, the Russian ambassador to the Gulf country has said.

Moscow has raised tariffs from 25 to 40 percent on some US imports in response to Washington’s move to impose tariffs on Russian steel and aluminum.

The Russian military has signed the first contract to receive 12 fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighters. The state-of-the-art jets are to be delivered to the armed forces next year.

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin boasted about his country's prospective nuclear weapons, saying they are years and even decades ahead of foreign designs.

A Russian lawmaker has spoken out against her countrywomen from having sex with foreigners visiting from around the globe for the World Cup, particularly those of different races.

Moscow's metro system can seem impenetrable to non-Russians - so how will it cope with thousands of foreign football fans?
 

Moscow has rejected any involvement in the crash of flight MH17 in Ukraine after the Netherlands and Australia declared Russia “responsible” for the deployment of a BUK missile system that downed the jet in 2014.

Nuclear company says it could pioneer power source for remote areas, Greenpeace calls it 'nuclear Titanic'