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Impeachments rough, but at least President Trumps got a loyal pal in Moscow to defend him. The day after the historic House vote, Russian President Vladimir Putin amplified Republican talking points about impeachment at his annual end-of-year press conferen…

MOSCOW -- Russia has signaled it will file an appeal against its four-year Olympic ban due to World Anti-Doping Agency sanctions which President Vladimir Putin on Thursday branded unfair. The Russian anti-doping agency's supervisory board voted Thursday to…

Athletes will not be allowed to compete under the Russian flag at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics or Beijing 2022 Winter Games Russia is set to appeal against the decision to ban it from all major sporting events for four years. Its anti-doping agency, Rusada, says…

Putin Alexei NikolskyTASS via Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin defended President Donald Trump on Thursday after the US House of Representatives passed a historic impeachment vote. Trump, who has faced intense scrutiny over h…

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the impeachment case against President Donald Trump, accusing the Democratic Party of using "absolutely invented reasons" to try and remove him from office. Asked about the impeachment at his annual …

Russia might be trying to hack everything and everyone, but Vladimir Putin himself is a little behind the technological times. Russian website Open Media reported that Putin's computers in his Kremlin office and at his official residence are running Windows …

Putin warns of second Srebrenica if no amnesty for east Ukraine

For all the fear of Russia these days in election meddling or the rollout of new weapons its leader, President Vladimir Putin, did not seem so fearsome during his first talks with the new president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. In fact, the power dynamic b…

Russia and Ukraine agreed on Monday to several steps for improving the situation around the war in eastern Ukraine at a major peace summit in Paris, but did not make any major breakthroughs for ending the conflict. The summit was held in the so-called "Norma…

* Man was killed in Berlin in August * Germany expelled Russian embassy staff * Putin hints Moscow may respond in kind * He says dead man was a militant fighter (Updates with Putin quotes) By John Irish and Margaryta Chornokondratenko Dec 10 (Reuters) - …