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By Tom Balmforth and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian government minister who once served in President Vladimir Putin's...

KYIV (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's government said on Wednesday it could suspend an accord with the European Union...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday told European Council President Charles Michel that the European Union was...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has started military drills on the Kuril Islands which will include live firing exercises and involve...

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was certain China would try to work...

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Boris Vishnevsky, a veteran opposition politician, was gearing up to run in elections this month...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A prominent Russian human rights lawyer who defended jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's foundation and worked on...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's FSB security service on Tuesday accused Ukraine of organising an attack on a gas pipeline in...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Qatar's ruling emir and the visiting U.S. secretaries of state and defense discussed developments in Afghanistan and...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz on Monday condemned prison sentences imposed on Belarusian opposition figures Maria...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's prime minister said on Monday he saw no prospect of a let-up in tensions on the...

KYIV (Reuters) - Maria Kolesnikova, one of the leaders of mass street protests against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko last year,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court in Russian-annexed Crimea ordered Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyalov to be held in custody for...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday condemned the "politically motivated conviction and shameful sentencing" of...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The last section of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been welded into place, its operator...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Monday said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was assaulting the defenders of freedom by jailing two...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will start operating...

(Reuters) - The European Union has called for the immediate release of Belarus protest leader Maria Kolesnikova after she was...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany condemned the decision of a Belarusian court to sentence protest leader Maria Kolesnikova to 11 years...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British junior defence minister said on Monday that he was wrong when he said that some...