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Cyprus lawmakers approve key bills for bailout
Lawmakers in Cyprus approved three key bills Friday that aim to raise enough money to qualify the country for a broader bailout package and help it ...
In lavish reception, Putin greets China president
China's new president received a lavish welcome Friday as he made Moscow his first foreign destination, joining with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
Trial begins against dead Russian lawyer Magnitsky
A Moscow court began proceedings Friday against a Russian lawyer whose death in jail three years ago generated international headlines and soured U.S.
Russia searches hundreds of rights groups, NGOs
Russian prosecutors are conducting wide-ranging checks of hundreds of nongovernmental organizations, as part of what rights activists say are ...
Battle for control over Bolshoi escalates
The foes make a striking contrast — a bald, stolid general director versus an extravagant dancer with an opulent mane of dark hair. And the stakes ...
Israeli premier invited to Russia
An Israeli official says the country's prime minister has been formally invited to Russia. He says Benjamin Netanyahu received a letter Wednesday from ...
Orthodox patriarch to Rome for pope's installation
Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, will attend Pope Francis' installation Mass — the first time a patriarch from ...
Russia unmoved by US missile defense plan change
A top Russian diplomat says the United States' cancellation of a critical part of its European missile defense system plan doesn't mollify Moscow's ...
Russian money in Cyprus hit by savings seizure
Cyprus has for decades been a favorite place for Russian businessmen to place their savings and for corrupt Russian officials to stash ill-gotten ...
3 astronauts return to Earth from space station
A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed Saturday morning on the foggy steppes of Kazakhstan, safely ...
Bolshoi acid attack victim hopes to work again
The Bolshoi ballet artistic director badly burned in an acid attack said Friday he is "full of strength and faith" that he will eventually see well ...
Kenya acrobat falls during circus show in Moscow
A Kenyan acrobat fell through a safety net during a show at a Moscow circus, suffering severe injuries including a fractured vertebra. An amateur ...
Putin indicates support for Olympic wrestling
Dropping wrestling from the Olympics would not sit well with Vladimir Putin. Putin was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying Wednesday "the ...
UK's Cameron may veto EU arms embargo on Syria
Britain may consider vetoing an extension of the European Union's arms embargo on Syria if the situation does not improve there, Prime Minister David ...
Bolshoi ballet chief: threats preceded acid attack
The artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet said the dancer arrested on suspicion of giving the go-ahead to an acid attack that badly burned his eyes ...
Trial of dead Russian whistleblower postponed
A Russian court on Monday postponed the trial of a dead lawyer who accused law-enforcement authorities of massive corruption and whose case sparked ...
Wrestling considers changing singlet for Olympics
Kicked out of the Olympics and desperately trying to get back in, wrestling hopes a wardrobe change will wow those set to rule on the sport's fate.
The cast of characters in the Bolshoi attack
The story of the acid attack on the Bolshoi ballet chief has plot twists and colorful characters worthy of the grand Moscow theater. Here is a look ...
Russian ballet star confesses he agreed to attack
Pale and haggard after hours of questioning, a leading Bolshoi dancer told a Moscow court that he gave his blessing to an attack on the ballet's ...
Bolshoi dancer confesses to attack on ballet chief
A Russian ballet star who has danced the roles of violent and powerful historical figures at the Bolshoi Theater has confessed to organizing the acid ...
Russian police arrest 3 suspects in Bolshoi attack
Russian police said Tuesday they arrested three men in the acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet, including a ...
Russia marks 60th anniversary of Stalin's death
Devotees of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose brutal purges killed millions of innocent citizens and made his name a byword for totalitarian terror, ...
Russian officials hassle Pussy Riot play director
A Swiss theater director said Monday that Russian immigration officials, Cossacks, and several police officers barged into a Moscow theater in a ...
Russia: 6 teens trapped in avalanche in Siberia
Russian authorities say six teenagers are trapped in an avalanche in the region of Tuva in southern Siberia. The Emergency Situations Ministry says ...
Moscow skeptical about US autopsy of Russian boy
Russia voiced strong skepticism Saturday about the U.S. autopsy on a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy in Texas and demanded further investigation as ...