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The hands of the United Nations are stained with blood over its failure to stop the atrocities in Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron has told the int...
Annouchka Brochet's new series of paintings, Vulnerable, focuses on the power of vulnerability in a woman's world. The artist repositions vulnerability within a contemporary context where inherent weakness does not mean giving up the responsibility of acting and engaging in history.
The poisoning of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko would be "state-sponsored nuclear terrorism on the streets of London" if it were proved foreign agen...
A pre-inquest review will be held on Thursday into the death of a Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned with a radioactive substance in 20...
A massive field of diamonds worth trillions of pounds has been discovered underneath a meteorite crater in Russia, scientists have announced. The i...
Russia's ambassador to Britain has defended his government's repeated blocks of United Nations sanctions over the crisis in Syria, saying the revoluti...
We know what happened in Afghanistan when the Soviet Union intervened there and the USA followed to support the other side. It was all done presumably for a good cause, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Vladimir Putin, the bear-baiting, tiger-tranquillising, crane-cross-dressing, bare-boobed general demi-god of all things adventurous, has had his supe...
Russia's prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has called for the three jailed members of female punk band Pussy Riot to be freed. Medvedev said the pro...
This week the National Archives of the United States released to the public a massive corpus of declassified documents related to Katyn, the massacre of nearly 22,000 unarmed Polish prisoners by Stalin's secret police in 1940.
Hmmm... we think we'll file this one under "Don't try this at home, kids". This new clip from Russian YouTuber Yevgeniy Chirka shows a Parkour pran...
Members of the Russian punk group, Pussy Riot have produced a new video in which they condemn the imprisonment of three women accused of hooliganism a...
Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has lost his High Court battle with Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich. Berezovsky, 66, was claiming mo...
Two murdered women have been found with the words "Free Pussy Riot" daubed on the wall, with the link between the killings and the imprisoned punk ban...
Look, we've got to level with you: we don't know how the 'prankster' in this Russian video is still alive. We can only assume he does a lot of off-cam...
Two members of punk band Pussy Riot have fled Russia to escape arrest, a Twitter account for the group has claimed. Earlier this week police were s...
Over 300 civilians have been massacred by Government troops in a Damascus suburb, according to opposition forces. President Bashar al-Assad’s tro...
Chinese media has accused the US of spoiling for a fight with Syria after president Barack Obama warned Damascus that any use of chemical weapons woul...
The website of the Moscow court that convicted members of punk band Pussy Riot for singing an anti-Putin song in a cathedral was hacked on Tuesday. ...
French demonstrators protesting against the jailing of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot have been arrested - because of the country's controversi...
These women are Putin's prisoners. Just as their act was political, so too was their trial, with the Kremlin egging on the judiciary in an attempt to imprison the women and crush dissent more widely.
While Jess sent Sheffield into a riot of fluttering Union Jacks and gold accessories on Friday, hundreds of miles away, three young women paid for their beliefs and courage with a trio of harsh two-year jail sentences handed down by a Russian court. No matter how you look at it, or whichever event has piqued your interest this August, one thing is not in doubt: the summer of 2012 is providing plenty of likely candidates to inspire the next generation.
While today's sentencing of the Pussy Riot trio and the accompanying 100 year law banning Pride marches is devastating for many Russian citizens, it also jeopardises the integrity of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, which will take place in less than two years.
The members of Russian punk trio Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in jail each after being found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religi...
A Russian court has upheld a ban on gay pride parades taking place in Moscow for the next 100 years. Nikolai Alexeyev, the founder of the Russian c...
