The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 has created a fragile country in turmoil, charges the former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.
A Russian a group of motorcycle enthusiasts with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been barred from entering Poland en route to an event commemorating the end of World War II.
In a recent documentary, Russian President Vladimir Putin stirs some concern over his country's readiness to use nuclear forces to protect Crimea.
Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian blogger and politician, has removed an ankle bracelet meant to enforce his house arrest on trumped up fraud charges.
A prominent anti-government activist in Russia was given a suspended sentence of three years for charges of fraud.
Facebook has blocked access to a page calling for a protest at the site and time a prominent opposition politician will be sentenced on politically motivated criminal charges.
The presidents of France and Russia held an unexpected and unplanned meeting in Russia to discuss the current crisis in Ukraine, where a ceasefire is scheduled to take effect Dec. 9.
The city of Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, witnessed its worse violence in years as radical jihadists laid siege to the city and battled with police.
The G 20 Summit leaders gathered in Brisbane, Australia, have apparently decided to confront Vladimir Putin on his stance on Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened that Russia could seize the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in "two weeks," as NATO and various Western powers reaffirm their military commitments to eastern Europe.
With violence raging next door in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin made the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan come together to begin negotiations to defuse tensions in the ethnically Armenian, breakaway Azeri region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The United States has accused Russia of testing a ground based cruise missile system in direct contravention to the Intermediate-nuclear Forces Treaty.
An international arbitration court in the Hague has ruled that Russia must pay $50 billion to investors for the seizure of the Yukos oil company.
