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Even without UN Security Council approval, a foreign military operation in Syria would be lawful under the doctrine of humanitarian intervention, applied in 1999 to justify the NATO campaign in Kosovo, the British government said Thursday.2
US President Barack Obama has said he has not yet decided what Washington’s response will be to the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.5
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called for patience in the situation around Syria, the Foreign Ministry reported.2
In a phone conversation Tuesday, Russia’s foreign minister rejected a claim made by his US counterpart that Syria's government was to blame for the use of chemical weapons against its own civilians.6
The Kremlin will give grants to the Memorial human rights organization and several other opposition-minded NGOs that prosecutors earlier this year accused of being “foreign agents,” the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti reported Monday.
Russian billionaire-turned-politician Mikhail Prokhorov on Monday dismissed as a “media hoax” rumors that he would soon quit politics.
US fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden stayed in Moscow in late June and did not fly to Cuba because Cuban authorities would have denied him landing under US pressure, a Russian business daily reported Monday citing sources.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with his Abkhazian counterpart Alexander Ankvab, the Kremlin reported.
The Moscow-led Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan may have to use protective measures should Ukraine sign an association agreement with the European Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.5
Five of Russia’s extradition requests sent to the United States in the past few years have been left unanswered, a deputy Russian prosecutor general has said in an interview.1
Senior Russian officials, including lawmakers, judges and the heads of state corporations, as well as their spouses and underage children, are no longer allowed to keep their money in foreign bank accounts or financial instruments abroad as of Monday.1
High-ranking Russian and Japanese diplomats are set to meet in Moscow on Monday, Japanese media reported.
Police in Russia’s southern region opened a criminal case Sunday over a suspected attack on three opposition party activists ahead of the September vote.
Adding to a growing pile of Russian electoral oddities, a Moscow mayoral hopeful tackled apocalyptical topics in an interview this week, saying that he expected Russia to lead the world in the victory against the Antichrist.1
Russian regions, most of which heavily rely on federal subsidies to survive, are funded in part based on how strongly they support the ruling United Russia party at elections, a new study claimed.
The Russian government urged its citizens Thursday to avoid traveling to Egypt, a popular tourist destination engulfed by riots over the sacking of an Islamist president that have already resulted in more than 500 deaths and the torching of churches.
“Deutschland über alles,” or “Germany above all,” a line that kicked off Nazi Germany’s national anthem, got a new lease on life in the Siberian republic of Buryatia, where a politician apparently retooled it for his campaign slogan.