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At his annual news conference , Russian president Vladimir Putin revealed that he had never been tempted to run for a third term. From the v...

The pro-Putin youth movement Nashi is to be dissolved as a national organisation, Russian daily newspaper Kommersant reports . The decisio...

According to Russian newspaper, Nezavisimaya Gazeta , Russian communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov considers withdrawing his candidacy for the...

According to Russian newspaper Vzglyad , a number of activists of Russian pro-Putin youth movement " Nashi " were arrested today d...

A union between Russia and Belarus with Putin as president? Those are the rumours presently at sway in Moscow, as Dmitri Medvedev has just b...

According to Georgian TV-channel Rustavi 2 , Georgian interior ministry forces today shot down a Russian fighter over the Kodori gorge of br...

When the BBC goes off the air, civilisation is at an end. At least, so seems to have been the British view during the Cold War, as submarine...

Now it is official what everyone in the business has known for the last 15 years. Back in 1991, Boris Yeltsin offered Finland to buy back Ka...

Beware female readers. Putin does it again. In a widely published photo "strip", Russian president Putin poses to the cameras with...

This week, Polish president Lech Kaczyński called for early parliamentary polls this autumn. However, it is unlikely that elections will put...