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Moscow (AFP) - Russia on Thursday announced the death at 103 of veteran Soviet spy Alexei Botyan, whom it hailed as a hero for "saving" the Polish city of Krakow from the Nazis, although Poland disputes Moscow's version of events.Russia's SVR military intelligence agency said Botyan, who lived in Moscow,…

Key point: Putin’s willingness to tie his personal reputation to Russia’s fifth-generation flagship fighter may speak to his growing confidence in its long-term viability.Back in May, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s IL-96-300PU presidential plane was flanked by no less than six Su-57 stealth fighter jets while en route to the 929th…

A PUTIN critic has been found with his throat slit in what police are calling a "politically motivated" assassination in a French hotel. Imran Aliev, 44, was found lying on the ground with "multiple wounds" to his chest and his throat slit with a bloodied knife next to the body.…

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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The Kremlin’s denizens could be forgiven for thinking they’re hearing some muffled chuckling coming from the direction of Washington. Because Trump administration officials must be feeling some schadenfreude as they watch their counterparts in Moscow wrestle with a quandary all too familiar at the Pentagon and Foggy…

Image copyright EPA Image caption Medical staff are on strike demanding a full closure of the border with the mainland Hong Kong is to impose a mandatory 14-day quarantine on all visitors from mainland China as it battles to prevent the spread of a coronavirus outbreak.The policy comes into effect…

When it comes to foreign policy, the Trump administration has made a point of making nice with modern-day autocrats such as Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. A new draft executive order obtained by Architectural Record called “Making Fede…

By: AP | Moscow | Published: February 5, 2020 9:43:43 am It has remained unclear why the Russian leader is rushing through constitutional changes four years before the end of his term.Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a nationwide vote on constitutional changes he proposed wouldn’t be used to…

(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a Moscow-based private railway company that last month opened passenger service between Russia and Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. The sanctions target Grand Service Express, its CEO and seven people who were slapped with European Union…

Image copyright Israeli Prime Minister Image caption Hours after her release Issachar (L) and her mother were greeted in Moscow by the Israeli prime minister and his wife (2nd R) Russia has released a dual US-Israeli national who was detained on charges of drug trafficking last year. Naama Issachar, 26,…