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Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin pauses before voting for a United Nations Security Council draft resolution demanding full access for investigators at the Malaysia Airlines jet crash site in eastern Ukraine during a meeting of the Council to discuss the shooting down of jet on July 21, 2014 in New York City The UN Security ... (more)

Oil prices fell modestly on Tuesday despite geopolitical tensions over war-torn Ukraine and a raging battle in the Gaza Strip.

Ethiopians and Ethiopian-born foreign citizens living in the Russia Federation and Belarus raised funds for the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam last week.

A combination of images of Russian nationwide weekend dailies' front pages on downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Moscow Russia, some of them reading "298 Victims of Someone Else's War," and "Kick From Behind."

For those who wish me to mince words, for those easily offended, for those who want journalists to pussy-foot around mumbling pleasantries, for those who believe blindly in their mass media, for those who think the west can speak or think no evil, then it is better not to read this piece.

I make no apology for maintaining a string of posts on the subject of Russia. The fact is that Putin's mafia state, nuclear armed as it is, poses an existential threat to the freedom and prosperity of the West and to the peace of the whole world.

Romania's President Traian Basescu on Monday accused the European Union of being weak and too slow in imposing sanctions on Russia to deter it from encroaching further into Europe after its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea.

COSPAR Scientific Assemblies belong to the most important meetings in space research, usually involving thousands of scientists and students and covering virtually every aspect of space science and exploration, from near Earth environment to the most deep space, brought to the audience by immediate participants and leaders of space projects.

Russia's billionaires 'horrified' at sanctions threat that could push economy into recession threat but too terrified of Putin to speak out Russian businessmen dare not speak out about the threat of sanctions because they are so terrified of Vladimir Putin, it has been claimed Russia's billionaire businessmen are 'horrified' at the prospect of ... (more)

Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation has summed up the results of "Best Russian exporter 2013" competition.

The tragic downing of a Malaysian passenger plane sent Putin's elaborate propaganda machine into overdrive, ultimately causing it to unravel.

MOSCOW, Russia -Following a telephone call with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Sunday, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron called for fresh sanctions on Russia over its involvement in the Ukraine crisis.

Moscow wants to work with Washington to further space exploration despite a recent NASA memo noting the crisis in Ukraine has nearly severed prospects for partnership, Russian officials say.

For the last few months the government of the Russian Federation has been on the offensive on multiple fronts.

Vladimir Putin met with members of the Holy Synod and heads of delegations from local Orthodox Churches on the 700thanniversary of the birth of St Sergius of Radonezh.

Hundreds of protests are taking place across United States this weekend in opposition to the surge of immigrants illegally crossing the country's southern border and proposed immigration reform that organizers say gives amnesty to those already living illegal in the United States.

In this June 30, 2010 file photo, a Russian SA-11 launcher is displayed at a military show at the international forum "Technologies in machine building 2010" in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow.

MOSCOW Russia has placed a U.S. lawmaker and 12 other people connected with the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq on its list of those banned from entering the country.

With pro-Russian separatists standing guard, investigators from the OSCE arrive at the crash site of the Malaysia Airline jet near the village of Hrabove in eastern Ukraine on Friday.

The government in Kiev said militiamen have removed 38 bodies from the crash site in eastern Ukraine and have taken them to the rebel-held city of Donetsk.