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By Alexander Ermochenko DONETSK (Reuters) - Russian and separatist flags flutter in the air as lively music blares and soldiers...

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's parliament approved a bill on Wednesday requiring owners of foreign social media and messaging apps to...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny urged Russians on Wednesday to vote for the Communist Party at...

By Andrew Osborn and Maxim Rodionov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he was self-isolating after several...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military said on Wednesday that the United States, Britain, Norway and Finland had sent vessels and...

By Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine expects to receive the next tranche of assistance worth $750 million...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin received his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad on Monday for the first time since 2018...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw vast joint military exercises with Belarus on Monday ahead of his country's...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian foreign ministry said on Monday it had demanded detailed information from the Czech Republic's ambassador...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved higher salaries for law enforcement and military personnel ahead of a...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is planning to send food and medicine to Afghanistan soon as humanitarian aid, the RIA news...

CAIRO (Reuters) -Qatar's foreign minister held talks with the prime minister of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan on Sunday, in the highest-level foreign...

(Makes clear reference in para 10 is to Ukraine) By Matthias Williams KYIV (Reuters) -A senior U.S. envoy said on...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Friday said it would begin a virtual mission to Belarus, amid concerns...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and ex-Soviet ally Belarus on Friday launched the active "hot phase" of a three-month-long military exercise involving...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The leaders of Russia and Belarus on Thursday agreed to set up a unified oil and gas...

By David Chkhikvishvili TBILISI (Reuters) - A top human rights lawyer who defended jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's team and...

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed former Ecology Minister Magzum Mirzagaliyev as the country's new energy minister,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A smoke alarm was activated in a Russian service module on the International Space Station (ISS), the...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has sent Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets to western Belarus to form a joint military training centre,...