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The sweet sound clouds of Eurovision have darkened over Russia and Azerbaijan with pop turning political for the Eastern states. Azerbaijan's Presi...
Russia is a country that's never short of jaw-dropping stories. Be it Moscow traffic police calling on drivers to form a human road block to stop a f...
The widow of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko on Friday accused a coroner of abandoning "his search for the truth about Russian state responsibility ...
The annual celebration of all that is kitsch, camp and quirky in European music comes to our screens this Saturday at 8pm BST, from Malmö, Sweden. We've watched both semi-finals and as many rehearsals as we can to give you a taster of what to look out for (and when to take a loo/fag/cuppa break).
It has all the hallmarks of a Cold War thriller, an all-American spy, complete with blonde wig, wads of cash, chiselled cheekbones and files of inform...
Two baby faced marines pose with a teddy bear, while a shorts-clad chimpanzee holds a camera in front of the Kremlin. They make up a collection of...
David Cameron will push for a political solution to end the Syrian conflict in talks with Vladimir Putin on Friday, as the UK stepped up pressure to e...
Nerve agent Sarin appears to have been used in the devastating two-year civil war in Syria, David Cameron said, as he prepared to travel to Russia for...
The ten things you need to know on Wednesday 8 May 2013... 1) A MODEST SPEECH FROM HER MAJESTY From the Times: "The Queen will open a new ses...
Russian drivers tend to get a bad press, thanks in no small part to the dash cam videos which end up on YouTube (see our slideshow below) which are us...
They may have come a long way since the Cold War, but collaboration in space between Russia and the US still have their price - £273 million to be pr...
Scientists have managed to bounce a laser off a Soviet Lunar rover which landed on the Moon more than 40 years ago. The Lunokhod 1 was the first re...
I'm not a Russian citizen but I nevertheless have a few questions for him. I'd like to imagine he'd have a go at some of these if they come up among the two-million-odd questions he's likely to be sent this week, but somehow I doubt it. So here are my ten questions I think Vladimir Putin won't be answering during the Q&A.
For the time-being we don't know why the Tsarnaevs chose to bomb the United States. But regardless of the reasons, the worry is, the Tsarnaevs may just have done in a day what the Kremlin has been trying to do for almost 20 years- painted all Chechens as terrorists.
Madonna could be banned from returning to Russia - after she spoke out in support of gay rights and the feminist punk group Pussy Riot. The singing...
Peacepainting is an organisation that exists to remind the adult world what it means to think like a child. Using the same format, same frames and s...
Russia has announced a new $50 billion space programme. In marking the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first trip to space by a human in 196...
When you've already brandished rifles, posed with a tiger cub and ridden a horse bare-chested, it must be hard to know where to turn for your next pho...
Femen, the Ukrainian feminist group, have staged another topless attack on Vladimir Putin, as he toured a factory in Hannover this morning.
The economic crisis paining Europe and the U.S. is surely one of the factors that has pushed China in new directions in its search for trade partners. Especially if thinking of the long term, China has to expand its network beyond the struggling American and European markets.
An artist whose taxidermied fox earned internet fame in Russia after sparking a bushel of memes has been branded an “anti-soviet” and a “Russoph...
The fact that denouncing gay rights and threatening freedoms can be such a rallying cry for mainstream politicians in modern Russia, says more about the country as a whole than the national parliament. As abhorrent as the views expressed by some of the pioneers of this bill are, they're still largely representative.
Russia has announced it will launch a fleet of space robots to explore the Moon. Nasa's former space-race competitor (when it was still the Soviet ...
The daughter of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky who was found dead at his UK home has paid tribute to her father saying he was "an inspiration" to h...
This week South Africa hosts the fifth Brics summit, completing the first 'cycle' of summits that began in Yekaterinburg in 2008. Individually no-one disputes the group has flourished since then. Our respective economies have each grown apace in what have been very difficult circumstances.
