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Anti-government protesters and journalists walk on the grounds of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich. ©Reuters/Konstantin Chernichkin Ukraine ushers in new era as president flees A new era dawned in Ukraine on Sunday as parliament appointed a pro-Western interim leader after ousted president Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev to escape retribution for a week of deadly carnage.
24 февраля 2014
©Reuters Olympics: Party time as Sochi Games close Sochi let its hair down on Sunday at a rollicking end-of-games Olympic party celebrating Russia's spirit and culture through the country's rich heritage of music and art.
24 февраля 2014
Photo courtesy of takie.org Obama, Putin speak after Ukraine deal President Barack Obama held "constructive" talks Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he pressed for swift implementation of a deal to end Ukraine's deadly crackdown on protesters.
22 февраля 2014
Winter Olympics ceremony 'personal triumph' for Putin European commentators portrayed the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics as a personal triumph and even an exorbitant show of power for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
08 февраля 2014
Olympics: Russia plans glitzy ceremony to sway sceptical world Russia on Friday officially opens in Sochi its first ever Winter Olympics with a lavish ceremony attended by dozens of heads of state and aimed at impressing a sceptical world with an unforgettable spectacle.
07 февраля 2014
Ukraine president returns to work as protests persist 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.
03 февраля 2014
Defiant Ukraine opposition refuses to back amnesty bill Ukraine's opposition defiantly refused to back an amnesty bill that would free activists and ease the country's worst crisis since independence.
30 января 2014
Crunch day in Ukraine after leader offers concession 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.
28 января 2014
Raoul Wallenberg. Photo courtesy of raoulwallenberg.org Wallenberg family to appeal directly to Putin The family of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg hopes to appeal directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin this week for help in throwing light on the Swedish diplomat's mysterious fate.
27 января 2014
Putin spokesman says Russia will not intervene in Ukraine protests Russia will not intervene in the raging anti-government protests in Ukraine and believes its leadership will find a way out.
23 января 2014
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. ©Reuters/Kevin Lamarque Obama, Putin discuss Sochi Olympics security: White House Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin discussed security at the Sochi Winter Olympics Tuesday, amid rising fears in Washington for the safety of US athletes following terror threats against the Games.
22 января 2014
Ukraine opposition eyes new rally despite protest curbs Pro-EU Ukrainians were reinforcing barricades in Kiev on Saturday ahead of a new mass rally, despite President Viktor Yanukovych signing legislation that placed strict curbs on protests, which drew condemnation from the West.
19 января 2014
Ekibastuz GRES-2. ©gres2.kz China and Russia to spend $400 million on Kazakhstan power plant China and Russia will provide 400 million dollars for construction of Ekibastuz GRES-2 Power Plant in Kazakhstan.
16 января 2014
Putin plots Syria strategy with Iran's Zarif Russia launches a fresh round of Syrian diplomacy on Thursday when it receives the foreign minister of Iran before hosting his counterpart from Syria ahead of historic peace talks on the bloody crisis.
16 января 2014
Putin to keep within the law in terror hunt: UN Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Monday to stay within international law in the hunt for the perpetrators of two bomb attacks in the city of Volgograd, the United Nations said.
31 декабря 2013
Freed Pussy Riot punk slams Kremlin amnesty as 'PR stunt' Pussy Riot bandmember Maria Alyokhina, who was freed from prison Monday under a Kremlin-backed amnesty, slammed the measure as a mere publicity stunt and said that she would have preferred to remain in prison.
23 декабря 2013
Putin pardons Khodorkovsky after 10 years in jail President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree granting a pardon to Russia's former richest man and bitter Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, allowing his release after more than a decade in prison.
20 декабря 2013
Maria Alyokhina, jailed member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot. ©Reuters/Roman Yarovitsyn Russia court orders review of Pussy Riot verdicts The Russian Supreme Court has ordered a review of the guilty verdicts handed to two members of punk band Pussy Riot, three months before the pair are due to be released from prison, it said Thursday.
12 декабря 2013
Thousands of Ukraine protesters mass outside parliament Thousands of Ukrainian protesters massed outside parliament in Kiev on Tuesday as lawmakers were set to debate a vote of no confidence in the government over the scrapping of a deal with the European Union.
03 декабря 2013
Is EU's eastern Europe policy in tatters after Russia row? Though the European Union appears to have lost to Russia in the first round of an East-West tussle over winning friends and influence in eastern Europe, some analysts would disagree.
30 ноября 2013

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