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Russia and Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia just got closer
Russia and Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia have signed a "border agreement" opposed by Tbilisi.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the de facto foreign minister of South Ossetia's...
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Ukrainian rebels just handed a big victory to Russia
Russian TV station Channel 1 has filmed the flag of Novorossiya (New Russia), the term that the Kremlin uses to describe the territories held by pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, flying over the railway...
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An EU (and NATO) member just bolstered Putin's push to redraw the European...
Last month, Russia announced that it would shift all its flows of natural gas to Europe via Turkey, instead of Ukraine, in an effort to counter its decreasing influence over the European gas...
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras condemns EU sanctions on Russia
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has blasted European economic sanction on Russia over the Ukraine crisis.The left-wing firebrand accused Brussels of hypocrisy over the sanctions, saying it was...
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Hungary's Prime Minister bashes fellow EU members over Russia
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stepped up his criticism on Wednesday of his European allies for their policy of seeking to isolate Moscow over its intervention in Ukraine,...
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Putin's top spy is in Washington right now
The director of the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, will head the country's delegation at a summit on countering violent extremism hosted by US President Barack Obama, FSB said on...
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Putin called the West's bluff over Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has called Europe's bluff over east Ukraine as Russia-backed separatists seize a strategic town in defiance of a ceasefire brokered by France and Germany.The attack on Debaltseve by...
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UK: Russia's most advanced anti-aircraft artillery system is being used in...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain released photographs on Wednesday of what it described as Russia's most advanced anti-aircraft artillery system, being operated in eastern Ukraine, saying it was further...
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Scientists still haven’t solved the mystery of the asteroid that exploded...
Two years after an asteroid exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,200 people, the origin of the space rock still puzzles scientists.The 66-foot-wide (20 meters) asteroid broke up over the city...
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Poroshenko wants UN peacekeepers to be deployed to east Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called for U.N. peacekeepers to be deployed to monitor a ceasefire in east Ukraine, a proposal that pro-Russia rebels swiftly said would be in...
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Russian bombers intercepted near British airspace
Two RAF Typhoon fighters were scrambled on Wednesday evening to escort Russian long range bombers flying off Cornwall, the Ministry of Defence has said.The Russian Tupolev TU-95 bombers, known as...
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Russia is burning through its dollar stockpile
Russia's foreign-currency reserves slipped another $6.4 billion last week as the central bank and the finance ministry continue the battle to prop up the ruble. At that rate, the country's remaining...
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UK minister: Putin poses a 'real and present danger' to the Baltics
British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said on Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin posed a "real and present danger" to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and NATO was getting ready to repel any...
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Here's footage from inside a Russian bomber as British and French jets...
Here is an interesting video filmed from inside a Tu-95 Bear escorted by Royal Air Force Typhoons and French Air Force Mirage 2000s during one of the recent missions of the Russian Air Force strategic...
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Sweden and Finland plan more military cooperation amid Russia tensions
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden and Finland plan to extend their cooperation on defense and set up a joint naval task force as the two neighbors respond to rising tensions with Russia in the Baltic...
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Georgia says Russia is now one step closer to annexing one of its provinces
Georgia condemned on Thursday the signing of a border agreement between its breakaway region of South Ossetia and Russia, accusing Moscow of moving closer to annexing a territory it supported in a...
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All the other places Russia would be able to trigger a crisis
Although the world's attention is focused on the eastern Ukrainian steppe of the Donbass, where a frail ceasefire seems to have collapsed after Russian separatists took control of the key railway town...
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The Russian-backed siege of a crucial Ukrainian town sounds insane
On February 18, despite a two day old ceasefire, Russian-backed separatists overran an approximate force of 8,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the strategically critical town of Debaltseve. Deblatseve, a...
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Former Polish president: 'We can quickly win against Putin'
Poland's former president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said Thursday he believes that global solidarity in economic sanctions against Russia would lead President Vladimir Putin to change his...
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Top Russian opposition figure jailed for 15 days
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court late on Thursday jailed prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for 15 days for breaching a law that restricts demonstrations, barring him from a planned...
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