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Salome Zurabishvili

Georgia will 'wait and see' if Putin's softer tone lasts

Georgia's president says she'll "wait and see" how a debate in Russia about possible new sanctions against her country will ...

Matteo Salvini

Italy: Lawmakers want Salvini to explain alleged Russia deal

Opposition lawmakers in Italy demanded Thursday to have Interior Minister Matteo Salvini appear in Parliament about ...

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Putin and Ukraine's new leader discuss east Ukraine conflict

Russian President Vladimir Putin had his first phone call with Ukraine's new president on Thursday and discussions centered ...

Bolivian president visits Russia to discuss expanding ties

Bolivian leader Evo Morales has visited Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on expanding economic ties.

Vladimir Putin

Putin says he opposes trade restrictions against Georgia

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday took a step toward cooling tensions with Georgia, rejecting calls for new ...

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Jean-Claude Juncker

Ukraine's new president invites Putin for talks

Ukraine's new president has proposed holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the conflict in the east ...

Turkey's Erdogan meets head of Libya's UN-supported gov't

Turkey's president has met with the head of Libya's U.N.-recognized government, following heightened tensions between Turkey ...

Russia outraged by case of sisters who killed abusive father

One evening last summer, Mikhail Khachaturyan decided that his living room wasn't tidy enough, so he summoned his three ...

Russian official arrested on high treason charges

An aide to the presidential envoy to Russia's Urals region has been arrested on charges of high treason, in the first ...

Putin awards seamen killed by fire on navy's submersible

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded the nation's highest honors to 14 seamen who died in a fire on one of the navy's ...

Russia's whale release plan called success despite criticism

Russian scientists said Thursday that an effort to put nearly 100 illegally captured whales back in open water has been ...

Giuseppe Conte, Vladimir Putin

Putin asks Italy to help restoring ties with EU, meets Pope

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Thursday for help in improving relations ...

Russia: Nuclear reactor safe on fire-hit submersible

The nuclear reactor on one of the Russian navy's research submersibles hasn't been damaged in a fire that killed 14 seamen, ...

Russian defense chief says there are survivors of navy fire

Some crew members survived a fire that killed 14 sailors on one of the Russian navy's deep-sea submersibles, Russia's defense ...

Putin signs bill suspending participation in nuclear treaty

President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill suspending Russia's participation in a pivotal nuclear arms treaty.

Death toll rises to 20 in Siberian floods, 8 still missing

Russian authorities say that at least 20 people have died and eight are missing in massive floods in southeastern Siberia.

Fire kills 14 Russian sailors aboard deep-sea submersible

Fire broke out on one of the Russian navy's deep-sea research submersibles, and toxic fumes from the blaze killed 14 sailors ...

Death toll reaches 18 in Siberian floods; 13 missing

At least 18 people have died and more than a dozen are still missing in devastating floods that swept southeastern Siberia, ...

OPEC extends oil production cuts amid weaker demand outlook

OPEC is extending its deal to cut production for another nine months in bid to keep oil prices from sagging as the oil cartel ...

Alexei Navalny

Russia's opposition leader Navalny gets 10-day sentence

Russia's opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to 10 days in jail on charges of taking part in an unsanctioned ...