Russia News
|
Kiev -
At least 19 soldiers and civilians were killed in clashes across east Ukraine as fierce fighting raged Sunday between government forces and pro-Russian rebels following the collapse of ceasefire talks.
|
|
Washington -
Whatever happened to that reset button Hillary Clinton gave her Russian counterpart in 2009 as a sign of renewed ties? No doubt gathering dust, while the West figures out how to handle Moscow now.
|
|
Moscow -
A fire that ripped through one of Russia's largest university libraries is believed to have damaged over one million historic documents, with some describing the fire as a cultural "Chernobyl.
|
|
Art -
A constant stream of ambulances, lorries and civilian cars screeches to a halt outside the last working hospital in this area of the Ukrainian frontline, delivering a growing number of those wounded in intense clashes.
|
|
Vyazma -
As Russia continues to deny troop deployments in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, a mother of seven is arrested on suspicion of treason for a phone call made nine months ago.
|
|
Minsk -
Peace talks aimed at halting rising bloodshed in eastern Ukraine ended in failure Saturday, with Kiev's envoy saying pro-Russian separatists wrecked a deal by refusing to discuss an immediate ceasefire.
|
|
Kiev -
Fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian forces in the east of the country has left 15 government soldiers dead and 30 wounded over the past 24 hours, Ukraine's defence minister said Saturday.
|
|
Budapest -
Hungary's maverick Prime Minister Viktor Orban has spent the past year straddling the divide between Russia and his European Union counterparts on the crisis in Ukraine.But he may soon be forced to pick sides.
|
|
Minsk -
Kiev representatives and pro-Russian separatists finally met on Saturday to thrash out a "binding" truce despite Ukraine suffering one of its bloodiest days yet in the nine-month conflict with 15 troops killed.
|
|
Donetsk -
Civilians queuing for aid handouts in Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Friday became the five latest casualties of a conflict which makes daily life a gamble, for those who haven't already fled.
|
|
Kiev -
Twelve people, including seven civilians, were killed in the past 24 hours in clashes between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine, officials said Friday.
|
|
Kiev -
Pro-Russian separatists vowed on Friday to push their latest offensive in eastern Ukraine further if truce talks with Kiev's pro-Western leaders fail as the bitter conflict killed another 19 civilians.
|
|
Moscow -
A mother of seven has been accused of treason for calling the Ukrainian embassy about Russian troop movements in the latest sign of Moscow attempting to cover up its intervention in its neighbouring state.
|
|
Verbovka -
Wheeling suitcases and hauling bags, residents of Svitlodarsk peered into a bus departing from this heavily shelled east Ukrainian town. "Is there still room?" one woman asked, anxious to send her teenage son to safety.
|
|
Brussels -
The EU agreed Thursday to add new names to a sanctions blacklist over Russia's involvement in Ukraine and will start work on possible further measures, foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said.
|
|
Minsk -
Belarus said that a new round of Ukrainian peace negotiations involving the warring sides and overseen by European and Russian envoys would be held on Friday in Minsk.
|
|
Moscow -
The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Friday accused the United States of drawing Russia into a new Cold War and said he feared hostilities could escalate into armed conflict.
|
|
A woman in Russia faces up to two years in jail because she ate her own pig in an attempt to avoid paying child support.
|
|
Moscow -
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accepted an invitation from Moscow to visit Russia in May for the celebration of the Soviet victory over Germany in WWII. This will be Kim Jong Un's first visit outside his country.
|
|
Brussels -
EU foreign ministers will add names to a blacklist of individuals sanctioned over the Ukraine crisis when they meet Thursday but stop short of new measures targeting Russia's economy, sources said.
|
|
Brussels -
Greece has created a new headache for the EU by questioning sanctions against Russia over Ukraine but is unlikely to block them for fear of harming its own debt negotiations, analysts and sources say.
|
|
London -
The autopsy on the body of poisoned Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko was described as one of the most dangerous ever on day two of an inquiry into his death Wednesday.
|
|
Kiev -
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko appealed to Russia's Vladimir Putin while Washington threatened tougher measures should Moscow fail to rein in separatists mounting a new offensive in the east of the ex-Soviet republic.
|
|
Kiev -
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Wednesday that Washington was ready to increase sanctions on Russia over its actions in war-torn Ukraine.
|
|
Moscow -
Syrian opposition figures and representatives of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad began talks in Moscow Wednesday but there was little hope that they would make a breakthrough in ending the country's brutal war.
|
|
Moscow -
The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will attend World War II ceremonies in Moscow in May, in what would be his first foreign trip since taking power in 2011.
|
|
Moscow -
Moscow on Tuesday blasted the United States over the arrest of an alleged Russian spy, condemning the move as a "provocation" that would further damage already tattered ties.
|
|
Brussels -
European Union leaders on Tuesday threatened new sanctions against Russia over a bloody offensive by pro-Kremlin Ukrainian rebels, the latest bid to pressure a defiant President Vladimir Putin.
|
|
Moscow -
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday slammed what he called attempts to rewrite history and lauded the Red Army at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
|
|
London -
An inquiry into the radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy opened on Tuesday with claims that there may have been an earlier assassination bid in the most sensational espionage case since the Cold War.
|
apis-263814 apis-263778 apis-263773 apis-263764 apis-263759 apis-263758 apis-263735 apis-263731 apis-263721 apis-263699 apis-263655 apis-263636 apis-263614 apis-263591 apis-263588 apis-263578 apis-263570 apis-263540 apis-263538 apis-263522 apis-263516 apis-263515 apis-263482 apis-263480 apis-263475 apis-263466 apis-263433 apis-263426 apis-263400 apis-263375
Russia Image
Toronto: Global Pussy Riot demonstration
The Russian cruiser Moskva Wikipedia
The street art of Nomerz in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. “The Big Brother” YouTube
The ice garden lights up for holiday cheer
Greenpeace activists chain themselves to each other during a demonstration on Bosphorus bridge calling for the release of 30 people arrested in Russia over a protest against Arctic oil drilling, during the Istanbul Marathon in Istanbul November 17, 2013. The 30 people detained by Russia consists of 28 activists who were arrested after coastguards boarded the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise following the protest at an oil platform owned by state-controlled Gazprom off Russia's northern coas With permission by Reuters / Murad Sezer
Pro-Russia demonstrators protest in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk last month. Andrew Butko/Wikimedia Commons
Russian politician Mikhail Pakhomov Screen Capture
A Pro-Russian militant kisses members of his family leaving for Russia on July 16, 2014 in Donetsk Dominique Faget, AFP
The Krasnodar region of Russia has been flooded again by torrential rains on August 22, 2012. Video screen capture
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting in 2012. Wikipedia
Tatarstan official seal wikipedia
Ukraine Crisis Discussion at @america, on March 13, 2014. U.S. Embassy, Jakarta, Photo credit: State Dept./Budi Sudarmo
A Volga River snowy sunset along the city of Samara
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia World Economic Forum
My Russian teenagers join my boss' daughter at our Christmas Party
|
|
