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Russia

Russia detains Ukraine journalist on spying accusations

Russia’s FSB security service has arrested a senior Ukrainian journalist on spying charges sparking a fresh diplomatic row between the two countries.

03/10/2016

Russia

Five Chechens go on trial for murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov

Five Chechen men accused of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov have gone on trial in Moscow.

03/10/2016

Russia

Flight MH17: Tension mounts between Russia and The Netherlands

Each country has summoned the other's ambassador after Moscow rejected the findings of an international probe into the downing of the plane.

30/09/2016

Russia

Second photography flashpoint over war photos in Moscow

A group of men invaded the Sakharov Centre in the Russian capital and disrupted the exhibition of work which features photographs from Ukraine's embattled east.

30/09/2016

Russia

State of emergency declared in Siberia

A huge forest fire has been burning out-of-control since Tuesday. The Russian Emergency Ministry says the fire covers more than 400 hectares of land, most of it forest.

28/09/2016

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Child pornography claims see photo exhibit closed in Moscow

An exhibition by a US photographer has been shut down in Moscow amid claims it was showing child pornography.

27/09/2016

Russia

Child porn row shuts down US photographer's Moscow show

An exhibition in Moscow by a well-known US photographer, Jock Sturges, has closed following a protest over alleged depictions of naked children.

26/09/2016

Russia

Russian 'Mowgli' survives 3 days in Siberian wilderness

A Russian toddler who went missing in the Siberian taiga forest was found three days later alive and well.

23/09/2016

Russia

And also...fur flies over dead cat handbag, TVs for cotton pickers and Winston Churchill helps charity

Every Friday, journalists from euronews’ various language teams choose a selection of stories from Europe and beyond which did not reach the international headlines Iraq: Young hero braves mines to l

23/09/2016

Russia

Russia: eight firefighters die in Moscow warehouse fire

Eight firefighters have been killed in a major fire in Moscow, according to Russia’s Emergencies Ministry.

23/09/2016

Business Line

OPEC and other oil producers tentatively inch towards a production freeze

In this edition of Business Line we look at the chances of OPEC and non-member producers, including Russia, reaching an agreement on limiting oil production.

21/09/2016

World

United Russia claims majority in state Duma

Natalia Marshalkovich: "How should we interpret the results of the Russian general election? We are joined from Paris by Tatiana Stanovaya from the Centre for Political Technologies.

19/09/2016

Russia

Russian election: Putin's party wins absolute majority

President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party is on track to take more than three-quarters of the 450 seats following this weekend’s parliamentary elections.

19/09/2016

Russia

United Russia Party's victory clears way for Putin's 4th term

Putin’s, United Russia party’s landslide victory in this weekend’s parliamentary elections, where they were on track to increase their majority to 76 percent, gives Vladimir Putin a clear run at a fou

19/09/2016

Russia

United Russia set to win 343 of 450 seats in lower house of parliament

With 93 percent of the votes counted in Russia’s parliamentary elections, the country’s Central Election Commission announced the governing United Russia party is on track to win 343 seats in the 450-

19/09/2016

Russia

Russia elections: Putin's United Russia continues domination

Russia’s ruling United Russia party has won the country’s general election.

19/09/2016

Russia

Russia's political also-rans lament United Russia's power

Against all odds could be how the leader of Russia’s Liberal Democrats might describe his party’s performance.

18/09/2016

Russia

First results confirm big election lead for Putin-backed United Russia

The governing United Russia party is well on course to consolidate power in Russia's lower house after a parliamentary election on Sunday.

18/09/2016

Russia

Crimea votes in Russian parliamentary elections amid protests from Ukraine

Residents of Crimea are voting in Russian parliamentary elections for the first time since the peninsula was annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

18/09/2016

Russia

Russians go to polls in parliamentary election

Russians are going to the polls in a parliamentary election, expected to give the ruling United Russia party even greater dominance of the lower house.

18/09/2016

Russia

Tiny kitten narrowly avoids being hit by several cars on Russian motorway

A kitten had a succession of near misses when it found itself in the middle of a busy motorway in Kaliningrad, Russia.

16/09/2016

Russia

Russia's elections, in a nutshell

Russian general election: why should we care?

16/09/2016

Russia

United Russia set to rule the Duma after Sunday's election

Russia goes to the polls on Sunday to elect the Duma, the lower house of the federal parliament.

15/09/2016

World

Russian sociologist Denis Volkov muses on the country's electoral mood

Serguei Doubine interviews Denis Volkov from the Levada-Center, a Russian independent, non-governmental polling and sociological research organisation, about the upcoming election.

15/09/2016

World

United Russia halts popularity slide as Russian election looms

Euronews journalist Marina Ostrovskaya looks ahead to Russia's upcoming general election: "On Sunday Russia goes to the polls to elect a new parliament. Could the result change the political landscape

15/09/2016

Sport

Russia denies involvement in WADA hack

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko has firmly denied that his government had something to do with the recent hacking of the World Anti doping agency’s database that resulted in the confidential medi

14/09/2016