CIS Countries

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is not yet prepared to recognise the Taliban as Afghanistan's government since it has not met...

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) - The European Union will give a "firm answer" to a ruling by Poland's top...

By Natalia Zinets and Ilya Zhegulev KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's third-largest bank dismissed its chairman on Monday after a Kyiv...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron had phone calls on Monday with the presidents...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had spoken to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday that a prison commission had designated him an extremist and...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian nationalists ransacked a makeshift memorial to slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow early on...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's office on Monday congratulated journalist Maria Ressa for winning the Nobel Peace Prize,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A plane carrying a group of parachute jumpers crashed after takeoff in the Russian region of Tatarstan early...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A performer at Moscow's renowned Bolshoi Theatre was killed on Saturday in an accident on stage during...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities said on Saturday 29 people had died from alcohol poisoning this week in a region near...

By Ilya Zhegulev KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament on Friday voted to appoint Ruslan Stefanchuk, a lawmaker from the ruling...

By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian prosecutors said on Friday they had widened an investigation into...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has asked the U.S. embassy in Moscow to lift the diplomatic immunity of three of its staff...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday designated the Bellingcat investigative news outlet a "foreign agent" along with nine people who...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland summoned the Belarusian charge d'affaires on Friday, a foreign ministry spokesman said, after border guards accused...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police in Georgia detained four protesters on Friday outside a prison holding ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, local media...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is ready to protect its ally Tajikistan in the event of any incursions from neighbouring Afghanistan,...

LONDON (Reuters) -A leading Syrian Kurdish politician said on Thursday the United States will stay on in Syria to destroy...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Investigators in Russia's Orenburg region opened criminal cases on Thursday into the deaths of nine people from...