The Russian parliament has backed a ban on the promotion of homosexuality among children in its first reading, amid scuffles on the street outside. Police
(Reuters) – Russia’s parliament has given preliminary backing to a bill that would enable the country’s 83 regions to scrap popular elections of their leaders
The Russian region of Mordovia has invited French actor Gerard Depardieu to set up home there, hours after he received his Russian passport. Governor Vladimir
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted citizenship to Gerard Depardieu, the French movie star whose decision to quit his homeland to avoid a
(Reuters) – The international mediator seeking to end the 21-month-old conflict in Syria met Russia’s foreign minister in Moscow on Saturday after talks in Damascus but expectations
(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin signaled on Thursday he would sign into law a bill barring Americans from adopting Russian children and sought to forestall
(Reuters) – Russia plunged back into the disputes over energy with Ukraine and Belarus that have repeatedly disrupted oil and gas supplies to European Union countries, and
(Reuters) – Artyom Kolpakov has learnt not to hope for too much after an exhilarating but ultimately frustrating year of protests against Russian leader Vladimir