Russian Federation

Russia strengthens border guards in Armenia after Karabakh ceasefire

Russia deployed some 2,000 peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh over the last two weeks after a peace deal ended the war between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces which erupted on September 27.

Putin: Turkey can't be accused of violating international law in Karabakh

Russia's President Vladimir Putin says Turkey was a member of the Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement from the very beginning but was never granted a co-chair status.

Russia: Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine 92 percent effective

Russia's results are only the second from a late-stage human trial, following on swiftly from data released by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech, which said their shot was also more than 90 percent effective.

The unwritten rules governing Russia-Turkey brinkmanship

Russia and Turkey are consistently at odds with each other, so how does the relationship survive without boiling over?

Putin seeks Turkey's hand in settling Karabakh conflict through Minsk Group

Earlier in the day, Baku shot down two Armenian warplanes, Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry said.

Putin rejects Donald Trump's criticism of Biden family business

Russian President Putin, who has praised President Donald Trump in the past for saying he wanted better ties with Moscow, has said Russia will work with any US leader, while noting what he called Joe Biden's "sharp anti-Russian rhetoric".

EU sanctions Putin's aides over Navalny poisoning, Libya embargo violations

Pushed by Germany, where Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was treated after collapsing on a flight from Siberia, and France, the EU has targeted six Russians and a scientific research centre.

EU ministers agree to place sanctions on Russia, Belarus' Lukashenko

Foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed in principle to sanctions proposals for Russia over poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny as well as against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko for alleged rigging in August elections.

Azerbaijan, Armenia agree on ceasefire in Karabakh

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's announcement comes after marathon talks between the two countries' top diplomats in Moscow.

Russia's Kamchatka peninsula in danger of ecological disaster

The country opened a criminal investigation to establish why rivers close to polluted waters were found with higher levels of pollutants.

Russia puts Belarus opposition leader on its wanted list

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya faces a charge in Belarus over making public calls to harm the country's security.

Navalny: Russian intelligence poisoned me to neutralise election threat

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has said he believed Russia's intelligence services poisoned him with a rare nerve agent because authorities saw him as a threat ahead of next year's parliamentary elections.