The Ukrainian Security Service's special envoy has reported to his chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko from Washington that, "evidence of the Russian armed aggression," gathered by the Ukrainian military, has been handed over to the American side.

"The evidence gathered proves that crimes against humanity have been committed in our homeland. It will be...

People with any level of yoga can take part in the marathon. Source: Press photo

The fifth annual Charity Yoga Marathon is due to take place in Moscow's Afimall City shopping mall on international Yoga Day, June 21.

The marathon's goal is to help children with serious locomotive diseases. People can both donate and take part in the marathon. This...

The Russian Central Bank announced that it would continue to cut the interest rate as inflation continued to slow down. Source: Evgeny Biyatov / RIA Novosti

The board of directors of Russia’s Central Bank has ruled to cut the interest rate from 12.5 to 11.5 percent per annum, starting from June 16. Analysts predict that b...

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GROZNY (Sputnik) — More than 400 Chechen volunteers have joined the ranks of Islamic State militants in Syria since the start of a civil war in that country, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry said Monday.

"A total of 405 people, according to our data, have left Chechnya t...

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“We plan to submit it in the near future. This may happen in the summer, if a relev...

Visitors to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum June 18-20 will have the opportunity to try Pushkin shchi, a special type of cabbage soup named in honor of Russia's greatest poet and resident of St. Petersburg. The soup, crafted for the event, is part of an effort by the St. Petersburg city government...

U.S. may station heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe to counter Russian threat

The Kommersant business daily reports that the United States may deploy heavy weapons in Eastern Europe “as a deterrence against a possible Russian aggression.” The news was first reported by The New York Times, citing sources in the U.S. and NATO lea...

Yuri Kasich, acting director at Urkenergo, has said that Ukraine will not pay for Russian electricity supplies to the rebel-held areas of the country's Donbass region.

Russia was notified well beforehand about Ukraine's unpreparedness to pay for the net power flows between the two countries' energy grids across five power transmission lines in the...

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“Amid economic recession, there has been a certain increase in unemployment, which, s...

The U.S. embassy in Moscow. Source: Iliya Pitalev / RIA Novosti

The U.S. embassy is in contact with the Russian law enforcement agencies in regard of a report on a bomb scare in the U.S. diplomatic mission in Moscow, U.S. embassy spokesperson Will Stevens said.

Embassy officials are not evacuating yet, he said.