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Ukraine: Well-wishers pay tribute to slain rebel leader Givi

Admirers lined up in separatist-held Donetsk on Friday to pay their final respects to Mikhail Tolstykh, the latest pro-Russian rebel leader to be killed in eastern…

Hungary

Thousands of visa abuses at Hungarian embassy in Moscow

Thousands of business visas were issued by Hungary’s embassy in Moscow in 2013 without proper checks, according to an internal report of the Hungarian foreign ministry…

Turkey

Turkey begins funerals for soldiers killed in Russian airstrike

The funerals have begun for the three soldiers who were killed in a Russian airstrike in Syria on Thursday.

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Russian warships welcomed home after Syria mission

Russia’s navy holds an honouring ceremony in Severomorsk to welcome back the crews of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier and the Pyotr Veliky heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser returning from S

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Russia

Britain scrambles jets to monitor Russian bombers

Britain has confirmed that it scrambled Typhoon jets to monitor two Russian Blackjack bombers, which flew near its airspace.

Ukraine

Is renewed fighting in Ukraine linked to Trump taking office?

Heavy fighting flared up recently in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian soldiers. But is it linked to Donald Trump's taking office?

Cult

The Royal Academy in London marks 100th anniversary of Russian Revolution

A momentous period in Russian history is on show in an exhibition at The Royal Academy in London.

Russia

Russian opposition leader Navalny given suspended sentence

Navalny says he will take part in 2018 presidential elections

World News

Russian-Israeli blogger extradited to Azerbaijan to face charges of insulting the leader

Alexander Lapshin is wanted in Baku for posts critical of the leader of the Caucasus nation and unauthorised visits to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Russia

Euroviews. Is it all going swimmingly for Vladimir Putin?

Denmark

World's biggest yacht is shipshape and 'nearly' ready to sail

A Russian tycoon is about to take delivery of the world’s biggest yacht.

USA

Euroviews. View: Donald Trump’s chaos theory of government

The ideological project that Trump and Bannon will seek to carry out could have far-reaching geopolitical and economic implications that should worry not only progressives, but also dyed-in-the-wool conservatives like me. To understand how far they are willing to go, one must understand their ultima

USA

Republicans slam Trump for suggesting US as bad as 'killer' Putin

The US president's apparent moral equivalence between America and Russia has been condemned in the US, while Moscow is angry at Fox News' depiction of Vladimir Putin.

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New chapter: world's first ice library launched in Russia

The first ice library in the world was launched in Baikalsk, Russia.

Norway

Norway suffers extensive hacking of state computer systems

Among those targeted were the Norwegian Armed Forces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Radiation Protection agency and the Police Security Service

Ukraine

Global calls for constraint amid new flare-ups in eastern Ukraine

The call comes from the UN, the OSCE and aid groups, as concern mounts about a humanitarian crisis

Ukraine

US blames Russia for rise in violence in Ukraine

The US has strongly condemned what it calls Russia’s ‘‘agreesive actions’‘ in eastern Ukraine.

Hungary

Hungary's Orban warmly welcomes Russian President Putin

The Hungarian Prime Minister said the country strove for 'open and transparent' relations with Russia, as the pair spoke trade, energy projects and sanctions.

Hungary

Orban waits to be on right side of new world order

Hungary's Viktor Orban has made a close friend of Vladimir Putin, who is rebuilding the country's nuclear reactor in exchange for Orban's political help in ending sanctions. In the meantime, Orban awa

Russia

Meet the Russian 'Hobbit' who lives underground in the woods

Yuri Alekseyev used to work as a lawyer in Moscow, but packed in his job and city life to move to the forest.