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President Vladimir Putin accused the West of playing a "double game" with terrorist groups in Syria, where a US-led coalition is conducting a bombing campaign.

• 23 октября 2015, 11:43

Russia has shocked the West by boosting its military presence in Syria as President Vladimir Putin seeks to not just defeat Islamic State radicals but also to gain a firm foothold in the strategic Middle Eastern country.

• 26 сентября 2015, 12:39

Russian police said they had detained an "international criminal gang" that produced contraband cheese worth some $30 million using banned Western ingredients.

• 19 августа 2015, 10:19

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree ordering the destruction of Western food smuggled into the country in breach of an official embargo.

• 30 июля 2015, 10:28

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he believed global powers and Iran will "soon" reach a compromise in talks on Tehran's nuclear programme.

• 11 июля 2015, 11:28

Nursultan Nazarbayev says Eurasian integration is the way of progress and success.

• 07 июля 2015, 18:03

Russian President Vladimir Putin extended a ban against most Western food imports for a year, saying the longer-than-expected measure would ensure the country's security.

• 25 июня 2015, 11:38

The West sounded more forceful warnings over Ukraine's battered truce as fighting raged around the port city of Mariupol.

• 23 февраля 2015, 11:01

The West's defence of Charlie Hebdo's right to offend is testing the patience of Muslims even in moderate Indonesia and Malaysia.

• 21 января 2015, 15:54

It seems to have played out exactly as Western powers hoped: sanctions and falling oil prices have hit Russia hard.

• 15 января 2015, 14:24

A Chinese city has banned schools from holding Christmas events, highlighting official suspicions about the increasingly popular festival because of its foreign origins.

• 25 декабря 2014, 14:03

Ukraine's president openly challenged the Kremlin by submitting a bill allowing the former Soviet republic to join NATO and make the Western alliance its defender.

• 19 декабря 2014, 11:41

Russia hit back against Western claims that it was sending fresh military hardware into eastern Ukraine which could fuel a return to all-out conflict.

• 14 ноября 2014, 12:14

Russia endorsed a crushing victory for Ukraine's pro-Moscow rebel leadership after controversial polls that the EU slammed as a "new obstacle" for peace.

• 03 ноября 2014, 10:26

Iran's government was forced to deny it had already struck a nuclear deal with the West, after a lawmaker accused its negotiators of secretly selling the country short.

• 29 октября 2014, 16:51

Russia announced it will recognise separatist polls in Ukraine next weekend, sparking an angry reaction from Washington and Kiev's newly elected pro-Western leaders.

• 29 октября 2014, 14:17

Russian oil giant Rosneft and a close associate of President Vladimir Putin are fighting the EU in court over sanctions imposed on some of Russia's biggest companies.

• 18 октября 2014, 10:34

The Ministry of National Economy of Kazakhstan is looking for alternative routes in case the West applies additional sanctions against Russia.

• 16 октября 2014, 19:18

Western allies should learn if their punishing sanctions on Russia have softened its stance on Ukraine enough to justify Europe's economic recovery.

• 13 октября 2014, 11:00

More than 330 people have been killed in Ukraine since a fragile truce began a month ago, with five million people affected by continuing violence.

• 08 октября 2014, 19:21