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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans a brief working visit to the Vatican next Thursday for talks with Pope Benedict XVI, a spokesman said. Medvedev said earlier that Moscow planned to improve ties with the Vatican. Relations have been strained in...

Russia — A rare Siberian tiger fitted by Vladimir Putin with a radio-tracking collar has vanished, a Russian environmentalist said Wednesday, dramatizing the plight of a species some conservationists fear may be approaching extinction. Russia's prime minister drew worldwide publicity...

Russia announced earlier in August that it had deployed an S-400 battalion near its far east border to counter a potential threat by North Korea's missile tests. "So far we have two S-400 battalions," said the Air Force Commander Col...Alexander...

Iran is not as great a threat to global security as other nuclear-proliferating countries such as North Korea and Pakistan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told European Jewish leaders in a meeting in Moscow on Thursday afternoon. However, he added, Russia...

Three masked men shot and killed a special forces officer in Russia ’s Dagestan region on Thursday, officials said, the latest in a wave of attacks that have undermined the Kremlin’s grip on the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.

Reuters 'It's important people realize xenophobia is horrific,' European Jewish Congress head says after meeting with Russian president in Moscow Reuters European Jews asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday if his country would observe International Holocaust Day starting from...

A top Russian prison official on Thursday acknowledged wrongdoing in the death of Sergei L. Magnitsky, a 37-year-old lawyer whose death in pretrial detention last week has provoked a groundswell of anger. “We are not trying to diminish our guilt...

Moscow came from behind to beat VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 in their Champions League Group B match on Wednesday to keep alive their hopes of reaching the knockout round. Wolfsburg on seven points with the last round of matches to come...Leonid...