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Melted rubber sandals float in the bus-sized crater outside what's left of the Nazran city police department.
The Kremlin got exactly what it wanted when the United States scrapped plans for missile defenses on Russia's borders.
Russian authorities questioned crew members from the Arctic Sea cargo ship after the seamen and eight alleged pirates ship were returned to Moscow on Thursday, adding new details to the mystery of the ship's monthlong odyssey.
President Barack Obama said strengthening human rights and the rule of law in Russia should be a part of the much-heralded "reset" in U.S.-Russian relations, according to an interview with an embattled Russian opposition newspaper.
Russia's president said in a video released Thursday he was hopeful that an upcoming summit with Barack Obama will help Moscow and Washington find new ways to cooperate.
Thousands of troops, backed by hundreds of tanks, artillery and other heavy weaponry, began rumbling through the North Caucasus on Monday, as Russia began its largest military exercises since last year's war with Georgia.
As the Kremlin presses a campaign to recast Russia's 20th century history in a more favorable light, a research paper published Thursday on the Defense Ministry's Web site blamed Poland for starting World War II.
Russian and American astronauts on Friday downplayed suggestions of disputes on the international space station over access to food and equipment.
Russia sent a strong warning to the United States Thursday about supporting Georgia in the U.S. ally's efforts to rebuild its military following last year's war.
When Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev meet for the first time on April 1, a big part of "pressing the reset button" will be to rescue the two countries' dying arms control treaty and prevent a return to Cold War nuclear rivalry.
If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.
From a tiny cell in one of Moscow's most notorious prisons, the man who was once his country's wealthiest tycoon awaits a trial that for many will be a critical test of Russian justice — and President Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to the rule of law.
Russia will likely see more forest fires, droughts and floods in the coming century due to global warming, and policy makers need to prepare for large-scale change, scientists warned in a report released Wednesday.
The dead loom over the morning editorial meeting at Russia's leading investigative newspaper. Novaya Gazeta's staff is trying to plan the next issue and editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov is in an understandably foul mood.
No lights. No road signs. Potholes big enough to swallow a farm animal. Going 80 mph through the Russian twilight and still being passed by cars and trucks.
Russia's state arms export agency said Monday it is supplying Iran with defensive weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, but did not say whether they include sophisticated long-range S-300 missiles.
How much would you pay for a ;-)? A Russian businessman has trademarked the emoticon — or combination of punctuation marks — used to convey a wink in text messages and e-mail.
Russia's top military officer has banned officers from talking publicly about sweeping reforms to the armed forces, an apparent effort to stem growing discontent among the military's top brass, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Saturday he hopes to increase energy ties with Moscow during his first visit to post-Soviet Russia.
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been sent into solitary confinement for 12 days after giving a written interview to Esquire magazine, his lawyers said Thursday.
Russia's navy dispatched a warship to Somalia's coast, officials said Friday, a day after pirates there carried out their boldest attack yet — the capture of a Ukrainian vessel manned with Russian and Ukranian crew and loaded with 33 tanks and ammunition bound for Kenya.
President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday derided U.S. accusations that Russia was sliding into irrelevance, saying defiantly that Moscow would set its own course without isolating itself behind a new Iron Curtain.
Texas bar talk just ain't right for international diplomacy.
As Georgia comes to grips with the damage inflicted by Russia's military campaign, President Mikhail Saakashvili seems likely to face the anger and frustration of tens of thousands of displaced Georgians.
Say hello in Georgian in this Ossetian hamlet these days, and the reply may be a scolding.
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