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Russian Cossacks will don throwback uniforms and take to the streets in Moscow to enforce security alongside police.

Rumors flew in Russia as Vladimir Putin fired a staunch ally and ruthless reformist, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is injured, but some think his health is more precarious than the Kremlin is letting on.

Russian opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov was charged with plotting riots on Friday, and he could face 10 years in prison if convicted.

Russian authorities launched a criminal investigation against Sergei Udaltsov, a left-wing activist, on Wednesday.

Nearly two months after Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich and two of her bandmates were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism, Samutsevich has been released from the Moscow prison, though the two other Pussy Riot members remain behind bars.

A member of punk band Pussy Riot was freed on appeal on Wednesday but a Moscow court upheld prison sentences for two others imposed over a raucous cathedral protest against Vladimir Putin, who said they had got the jail terms they deserved.

Russia will continue to have a military presence in Tajikistan after both countries agreed Friday to extend the lease on a Soviet-era base.

Russia has many motives to keep supporting Syria's dictator -- e.g., arms contracts, naval base access -- but energy is the real reason.

A Russian court paved the way for a potential closure of video-sharing website YouTube by banning an anti-Islam video on Monday that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world.

Billionaire Alexander Lebedev has been charged with hooliganism in Russia after punching another man in the face on television last year.

Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has been charged with "hooliganism," though he claimed he's being targeted by President Valdimir Putin for funding the political opposition.

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Mitt Romney Tuesday for rating Moscow as the United States' "number one geopolitical foe."

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement at the opening of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Summit in Vladivostok, Russia on Sunday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his priority in Syria is to end the violence, but accuses rebel supporters of pursing a 'dangerous and short-sighted policy.'

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was "mistaken" in an interview aired Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir V Putin pulled off his latest feat, helping a flock of critically endangered Siberian white cranes in their migration trip to Asia on Wednesday. Putin piloted a motorized hang glider in Siberian skies guiding a flock of the migratory cranes.

Russian punk band Pussy Riot released a new song lambasting Russian President Vladimir Putin after being found guilty and sentenced to two years in jail on charges of ?hooliganism driven by religious hatred.? Authorities are searching for the band?s remaining members while outraged bold-faced names continued to voice their support for the group.

On Friday, three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral. In support of the band, a topless women's rights activist defiantly chopped down an Orthodox cross in Kiev, Ukraine.

After Russia’s disappointing showing at the London Olympics comes more bad news for Vladimir Putin’s.

Jesuit priest Paolo Dall'Oglio, who spent the last 30 years in Syria and was recently exiled, said the country still very much needs the U.N.'s help to find a peaceful solution, but the end of Bashar al-Assad's days as president is near.