Credit: Telegraph UKOnce an international superpower, Russia is quickly gaining a new reputation as the world’s leading exporter of homophobia. The country’s lower chamber of parliament today passed a bill that would prohibit gay couples...

Russia is steeply ramping up oil deliveries to China, with Asia now importing almost a fifth of oil exports from the world's largest crude producer in a strategic shift meant by the Kremlin to end reliance on weak and saturated European markets.   ...

As G8 leaders meet in Northern Ireland, the Guardian reports: “Turkey, South Africa and Russia have reacted angrily to the British government demanding an explanation for the revelations that their politicians and senior officials were spied...

Russia’s largest diamond miner Alrosa plans to spend $10-20 million annually on diamond prospecting in Angola as part of a new joint venture to look for deposits in the Central African country, Alrosa said Tuesday.

Russia needs to carry out “ambitious” economic policy reforms to realize the economy’s midterm potential and reduce its vulnerabilities to a slump in oil prices or acceleration of capital outflows, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.

Russia has seen both the number of young people in the country and their share in the total population decline steadily in recent years, an Education Ministry official said on Tuesday.

Russia and the United States will bear primary responsibility for developing a peace plan for Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a press conference following a summit of the Group of Eight major industrial nations in Northern...

US lawmakers have imposed new conditions the administration of President Barack Obama would need to meet before the United States can fulfill its obligations under the 2010 START nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia, recently-approved...

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Tuesday that disagreements over the deployment of a US missile shield in Europe still remain, but Moscow and Washington should boost the transparency of actions related to the dispute.

Russia, the United States and France, the three countries mediating the conflict over the disputed South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, said Tuesday that they were greatly concerned by the lack of progress in bringing peace to the region.

Russia will develop a national plan to deal with offshore tax havens, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

Russia has paid off a $2 billion Soviet-era debt to Serbia and Slovakia, the Russian Finance Ministry said Tuesday.

The construction of the stern for the first Mistral helicopter carrier being built for the Russian Navy will be finished in France because a Russian shipyard cannot meet the deadline specified in the contract, a senior Russian defense official said...

At least five people were injured and some 6,000 local residents were evacuated on Tuesday from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia where a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, the Emergencies Ministry said.

Brian Hughes President Obama and other world leaders at the G-8 summit Tuesday agreed in calling for an end to the two-year civil war in Syria, but the U.S. and its allies could not convince Russia to unite behind a call for the ouster of Syrian...

imago stock&people/Newscom This week, President Obama is in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, for the G8 summit, an annual meeting of the world’s wealthiest countries: the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United...

Ciara IS EVERYTHING YOU’VE HEARD Onstage in an industrial redbrick rehearsal space in Atlanta, 5,300 miles from the former Soviet Union, Ciara is practicing being spontaneous. “Hello Russia! Thank you so much for all your … read more »

MOSCOW -- Russia is on its way to formally prohibiting all adoption by same-sex couples and also banning the adoption of Russian children by single people or unmarried couples from countries that allow same-sex marriage. The lower house of Russia's...

Moscow hopes that upcoming three-way talks will result in an agreement that will help end Syria's two-year civil war, a senior Russian official said on Tuesday.

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service plans to separate smokers and non-smokers in prisons and other detention facilities, an official said on Tuesday.