Russia is kicking out of the country a secretary at the US embassy in Moscow, charging that he's a CIA spy who was attempting to recruit a Russian security agent to work for the US. Russian officials say Ryan Christopher Fogle was found with sever...

"Victory Day," the 68th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, was marked with the traditional display of military might in Red Square and a speech from President Vladimir Putin in which he vowed that Russia would "do everything to enforce saf...

Russia and the US have agreed to arrange an international conference aimed at ending the crisis in Syria. They plan to involve both the government of President Bashar al-Assad and the rebels fighting to overthrow him. A visit by US Secretary of S...

Video footage shows a group called Young Anti-Drugs Special Forces, an offshoot of the Kremlin-backed Young Russia movement, attacking suspected drug dealers. 

Russian relations with America took another turn for the worse when Russia published a retaliatory list banning 18 Americans from visiting the country. The Russian list is in response to the "Magnitsky" list of 18 Russians already issued by the US...

Mikhail Beretov died this week but fellow journalists say he was killed five years ago, when a savage beating left him with brain damage. The attack came after Beretov worked tirelessly to expose corruption surrounding the building of a highway th...

Russia voiced strong skepticism about the autopsy on a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy in Texas and demanded further investigation as thousands rallied in Moscow to support the Kremlin ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children.

Authoritarianism in Russia is now at its worst since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Human Rights Watch warns. The group says that attacks on political freedoms have soared since Vladimir Putin started a new term last year, with pressure on crit...

Heavily bandaged Bolshoi Ballet artisic director Sergei Filin told a Russian newspaper that he asked for protection after weeks of anonymous threats before an an attacker threw acid in his face last week. Some in the Bolshoi believe the attack may...

Days of heavy snowfall have blanketed Europe, triggering massive traffic jams and cancelling hundreds of flights from Paris to Moscow.