Family, politics shape Putin's view of WWII anniversaryRussian President Vladimir Putin grew up with tales of how his father battled the Nazis as a Red Army soldier and his mother lived through the punishing siege of Leningrad.
China's Xi to visit Russia, Kazakhstan and BelarusChinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia this week to attend World War II anniversary celebrations, with Kazakhstan and Belarus also on his itinerary.
EU, NATO try to counter Russian propagandaWestern powers are getting set to counter an expertly crafted Russian disinformation campaign over Ukraine which has left them wrong-footed too many times for comfort.
Radio silence as Russia tries to contact space cargoRussia will try again to make contact with an unmanned cargo ship after communications were lost following the spacecraft's launch toward the International Space Station.
Kazakhstan rules out possibility of single EEU currencyKazakhstan has once again ruled out the possibility of adopting a single currency for the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), despite the propositions of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
28 April 2015
Right to be forgotten discussed in Kazakhstan's MajilisThe so-called 'right to be forgotten', which allows individuals to have information, videos or photographs that infringe on their privacy deleted from Internet records, was discussed by Kazakhstan's Majilis.
27 April 2015
Ukraine to push for peacekeepers, funds at EU summitUkraine will press European leaders for peacekeepers to patrol its war-torn east and will angle for more international financial support at two days of high-level talks starting.