The United Nations Security Council is now crucial for Russia to achieve its foreign policy aims, and this should provide grounds for optimism over Syria.
Already blown away by the awesome GUM shopping mall, the snow falling in Red Square and Bosco-style hospitality (vodka, champagne and endless delights of handmade chocolate truffles, caviar, prawns, fruits and more) I was on sensory overload and a trip around the Kremlin completed the dream (and almost made me want to get the history books out!)
One thing I could never complain about is being bored in this business!! From the tranquil, heavenly beach bliss of the Maldives last month to the historical, snowy, Russian glory of Red Square in Moscow is mind-boggling!
The stuttering of Russia's protest movement should be seen as a failure of leadership, not a reflection of Vladimir Putin's success.
David Cameron and Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin spoke tonight about developing a "stronger relationship" despite "differences and areas of co...
Police have made dozens of arrests in Moscow as crowds gathered to protest Vladimir Putin's landslide victory in the country's presidential elections....
The Russian election was "clearly skewed" in favour of Vladimir Putin, according to the independent Organisation for Security and Co-operation. Ton...
Vladimir Putin is a "ruthless" dictator whose days are numbered, David Miliband said today as Russians go to the polls. The former foreign secretar...
Vladimir Putin's preoccupation with shadowy political manoeuvring betrays a self-defeating unwillingness to engage in an open debate with the public.
A former UK government official has admitted Britain was behind a plot to spy on Russians with a device hidden in a fake rock, it emerged today. Ru...
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have rallied in the Russian capital in another huge protest against election fraud, signalling a growing outrage wi...
Gloomy weeks for the western world: the elections in Egypt and Russia threaten to transform the Arab spring as well as the hoped for political thaw with Moscow into an icy winter.
A former MP's aide accused of being a Russian spy has won her appeal against deportation, after arguing that she was not sending state secrets to Mosc...
A Government adviser has accused China and Russia of carrying out cyber warfare attacks aimed at stealing national security secrets from other countri...
In January 2007 Russia and China vetoed a resolution against the Burmese military junta in Myanmar. In July 2008 both Russia and China rejected sanct...
The Prime Minister's visit to Moscow this month suggests that the relationship between the UK and Russia is on the mend.
The chief suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 has challenged David Cameron to meet him in Moscow but warned the Prime Mini...
At least 36 people have been killed in a plane crash in central Russia, local reports say. State news agency RIA Novosti said a Russian-made Yakovl...
Hopes that BP could take the focus away from its failure to tie-up a ground-breaking deal with Rosneft in Russia were crushed on Wednesday when black-...
Eight people have been killed in a twin suicide attacks in the Chechen capital of Grozny, according to a BBC report. Five policemen are believed to be...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a bill that officially classifies beer as alcoholic. Until now anything containing less than 10% alcohol ...
Young women across Russia have been called on to show their support for Vladimir Putin in an unusual way: by ripping off their clothes. ...
Press Association -- Emergency officials say that 102 people are missing and at least one is dead after a passenger boat with more than 180 people on ...
