At least seven people, mainly police officers, were killed and 18 injured in two suicide bomb blasts in the Chechen capital Grozny on Tuesday, Chechen officials said.

Chechnya's strongman leader Ramz

It's summer, so it must be time for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to take his shirt off.

And any Russians disappointed that Putin had not been photographed this holiday season riding bare-chested

Sleepy early morning passengers on a flight from Moscow's biggest airport to London may have thought they were dreaming on Friday when a drunken Russian woman staged erotic dances on the plane.

But c

Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after one of the unmanned craft crashed shortly after blast-off while carrying tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station, a space official said Thursday

North Korea has expressed readiness to impose a moratorium on tests of weapons of mass-destruction and resume the stalled six-party talks on its nuclear programme, at a summit with Russia held at a se

North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong Il on Monday trekked through Siberia aboard his special armoured train to the city of Ulan-Ude for talks with President Dmitry Medvedev later this week.

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Technical problems forced Russia to abort a flight of its T-50 stealth plane at an air show outside Moscow on Sunday, officials said.

The Russian air force "stopped the flight due to technical defect

A court in Russia has banned a painting that depicted Mickey Mouse as Jesus Christ, saying it was 'extremist'.

Alexander Savko's 'Sermon on the Mount' painting - part of a series titled "Mickey Mouse

Russian police officers working in positions where they may be exposed to temptations of bribery and corruption will have to take lie-detector tests, a minister has said.

Interior Minister Rashid Nur

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il arrived in Russia on Saturday for his first visit in nearly a decade, reaching out to the giant neighbour as Pyongyang battles isolation and hunger.

The reclusive Kim