Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting European Union chiefs for his first summit of his new presidency to discuss, among other matters, Russia's policy towards Syria. Read More

Neil Clark, a contributor to Britain's Guardian newspaper, says Western states are using the recent tragedy in Houla as a pretext for a possible intervention – as they did in 1999 in Yugoslavia and in 2011 in Libya. Read More

There are no other ideals there, and it's tedious. Read More

After two years and 248 qualification matches, Euro 2012 is almost ready to start. Read More

MIB 3 held well in a few of its major markets and wound up in first place once again at the overseas box office. Read More

Latvian officials have confirmed that they complained to the European Union about New Zealand and Russia's lax laws on money laundering after an OCCRP investigation detailed the laundering of US$ 680 million. Read More

Russia's basketball coach, David Blatt, says his men have good chances to make it to London 2012 through the upcoming qualifying tournament in Venezuela. Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is urging Russia to help start a political transition in Syria, the outcome of which she says will be President Bashar al-Assad's ouster. Read More

According to foreign sources, Russia and its neighboring southern republics have been steadily growing customers for Israeli UAS. Read More

Italy 's unhappy build up to Euro 2012 continued on Friday as they collapsed to a three-goal defeat against tournament rivals Russia in Zurich. Read More