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By Oksana Kobzeva and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom has held off from booking additional capacity...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armenia's opposition alliance, led by former president Robert Kocharyan, has asked the constitutional court to overturn the...

By John Irish and Parisa Hafezi PARIS (Reuters) -Some parties to the Iran nuclear talks need more time before resuming...

KYIV (Reuters) - A draft law which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says will help curb the influence of oligarchs who have...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has summoned the Czech ambassador to the foreign ministry, the TASS news agency reported on Thursday,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Moscow said on Thursday that he held a positive meeting with Russia's Deputy...

By Katya Golubkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - EU sanctions designed to punish veteran Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko for a sweeping political...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The following are highlights from Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual phone-in on Wednesday. Putin spoke in Russian....

By Andrew Osborn and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia could have sunk a...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin told Russians on Wednesday to get vaccinated against COVID-19 amid a wave of cases, and...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced two Jehovah's Witnesses to seven and eight years in jail on...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's HMS Defender warship acted in accordance with international law and was conducting innocent passage through Ukrainian...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin told Russians on Wednesday that the time would come when he would name his possible...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Netherlands' defence minister said on Tuesday that Russian fighter jets armed with air-to-surface missiles had harassed a...

KYIV (Reuters) -The Ukrainian parliament approved a draft law on Tuesday that would re-establish a special commission on appointing judges,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday ordered the arrest in absentia of Ivan Zhdanov, an ally of jailed...

(La Repubblica newspaper's transcript shows correct wording "predictable" (not "profitable"), "take reckless or aggressive actions" (not "attack") ROME (Reuters) -...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's defence ministry said on Monday that it was investigating how nearly 50 pages of secret military...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday it was monitoring the movements of international ships participating in 'Sea...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Monday the world should not lower its guard against...