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Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot on Tuesday took their campaign against Vladimir Putin's civil liberties crackdown to New York, where they are to tread the same stage as Madonna.
Syria's opposition leader met Russia's top diplomat on Tuesday in a bid to persuade Moscow to pressure Damascus to agree to a transitional government for the war-scarred nation.
Before the Winter Olympic Games even kick off on Friday, Russian cinema-goers are savouring victories in sports-themed Kremlin-funded films, from a patriotic biopic of top athletes to a remake of "Some Like it Hot" set in Sochi.
Russia will deliver five S-300PS surface-to-air missile battalions to Kazakhstan for free, according to Deputy Defense Minister of Russia.
An armed student on Monday briefly took 20 teenagers hostage in a Moscow school and killed a policeman and a teacher before being detained amid security jitters ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych returns to work from four days of sick leave after opposition leaders appealed for Western assistance and an injured militant accused of rioting left the country for medical treatment.
The Astana Arlans have proved that they will not tolerate a lose in their home ring by flattening the Russian Boxing Team 5:0 on February 1.
Brazil's branch of Amnesty International on Sunday held a rally in Rio to protest what it termed Russia's "homophobia".
Alexey Poltoranin, a star ski racer from Kazakhstan, is likely to win two gold medals at the Winter Sochi Olympics.
World powers will hold their next talks on Tehran's contested nuclear programme February 18, top Iranian and European Union diplomats agreed during Friday talks.
Russia on Friday slammed as a "circus" US Secretary of State John Kerry's planned weekend meeting with Ukrainian opposition leaders.
Kazakhstan’s Defense Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov met his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu today.
Kazakhstan has offered Russia to consider leaving the testing sites that it no longer needs.
Ukraine's opposition defiantly refused to back an amnesty bill that would free activists and ease the country's worst crisis since independence.
Olympic silver winner Elena Khrustaleva from Kazakhstan has won the sprint competition at the Asian Biathlon Championship in Almaty.
Mukhtar Ablyazov might faceconfiscation of property in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan won the second place at the Sambo World Cup Stage among Men and Women for the Prizes of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Women outnumber men for the first time in Japan's Winter Olympics team as the country sends a record number of athletes to Sochi in hopes of its biggest-ever medal haul.
Ukrainian lawmakers meet on Tuesday to debate ways of ending a deadly two-month crisis after President Viktor Yanukovych gave in to a key opposition demand to abolish draconian anti-protest laws.
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