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The path out of oblivion for Przewalski's horse lies in getting on a plane to China, Mongolia and, most recently, the Russian steppes.

• 09 марта 2016, 18:30

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he had sealed a pact with the country's oil majors to freeze production.

• 03 марта 2016, 00:17

A Ukrainian village renamed a street, which honoured Soviet founder Lenin, after The Beatles' John Lennon.

• 03 марта 2016, 00:03

Syria's brutal five-year war has turned increasingly messy tangle of internal and external players with their own multi-faceted agendas.

• 17 февраля 2016, 16:41

Moscow warned Washington that deployment of a US missile defence system to South Korea could spark an arms race in the region.

• 10 февраля 2016, 15:11

Amid falling oil prices and tenge exchange rate fluctuations, experts are wary to predict Kazakhstan's future.

• 22 января 2016, 16:54

The head of Kazakhstan's national anti-doping centre has pledged to crack down on drug cheats ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

• 18 января 2016, 17:33

Iran sent a major shipment of low-enriched uranium materials to Russia to implement nuclear accord with world powers.

• 29 декабря 2015, 19:52

Russia is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, sounding an alarm on the rise in floods and wildfires nationwide.

• 25 декабря 2015, 17:41

Ukraine is responding to Moscow's food embargo with "mirror sanctions" of its own, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced.

• 24 декабря 2015, 17:43

Russia is not trying to bring back the USSR, President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired Sunday, but the problem is that "nobody wants to believe it"

• 21 декабря 2015, 13:55

EU nations may delay a decision on whether to roll over economic sanctions against Russia.

• 09 декабря 2015, 18:24

Turkey insists it is not dependent on Russia to build its first nuclear power plant amid uncertainty over the $20 billion project.

• 09 декабря 2015, 17:18

Eldar Ryazanov, one of the most popular film directors of the Soviet era whose comedies captured the unique absurdities of life under Communism, died Monday aged 88.

• 30 ноября 2015, 16:06

Turkey on Monday sent back to Russia the corpse of a pilot killed when his plane was shot down by the Turkish air force for allegedly violating its air space on the Syrian border.

• 30 ноября 2015, 15:51

Moscow slapped sanctions on Ankara as the war of words over a downed Russian warplane escalated, with Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning Russia not to "play with fire".

• 28 ноября 2015, 15:14

French President Francois Hollande will hold talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as part of his diplomatic marathon to forge a broader coalition against Islamic State jihadists in the wake of the Paris attacks.

• 26 ноября 2015, 15:13

Secretary of State John Kerry spoke by phone with Russia's foreign minister and urged a de-escalation of tensions after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border.

• 26 ноября 2015, 14:38

Sanctions against Russia over its involvement in the Ukraine crisis could be lifted if Moscow fulfils commitments it made to help resolve the conflict, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said.

• 26 ноября 2015, 10:49

Russian state giant Gazprom said it had halted gas deliveries to Ukraine after Kiev failed to make upfront payments for more supplies.

• 25 ноября 2015, 17:42