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Image copyrightAFPImage caption President Trump jokes with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and ambassador Sergei Kislyak The US extracted a high-level spy from inside Russia in 2017, reports say. Citing "multiple Trump administration officials wit…

The CIA spent decades cultivating an informant who became so close to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the individual could photograph documents on his desk and send them back to U.S. intelligence officials, according to a series of shocking reports publ…

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The Kremlin claimed victory on Monday, with Mr. Putins spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, calling the vote very successful for United Russia. In the country as a whole, the party has demonstrated its political leadership, Mr. Peskov said. Kremlin opponents dismis…

* Ruling party loses about a third of seats in Moscow -RIA * Result follows biggest street protests in years * Many opposition candidates were excluded * Opposition advised people to vote tactically By Andrew Osborn and Andrey Kuzmin MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reut…

But Putin also need to beware. Dictatorships fall not only when they have implacable opponents but also exemplary victims: Steve Biko in South Africa, Benigno Aquino in the Philippines, Jerzy Popieluszko in Poland. Through their deaths, they awakened the livi…

She decided to tell the complex story of Mr. Litvinenkos life and murder by having the character investigate his own death, with Mr. Putin trying to direct the action, or at least divert the audiences attention from the truth, from the sidelines. Ms. Prebble…

Pontoon barges doused in radioactivity be damned: Russias ready to build more nuclear weapons. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia will start churning out the kind of medium-range missiles that were previously banned under a Cold War-…

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin complained on Thursday about Italy's arrest of a Russian state executive on suspicion of industrial espionage at Washington's request, saying the move would harm ties with the United States. Al…

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sept 5 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would produce missiles that were banned under a landmark Cold-War era nuclear pact that ended last month, but that Moscow would not deploy them unless the United Sta…