TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia will compete in next year’s Winter Olympics hosted by Russia, the country’s Olympic committee decided unanimously, marking an ease in ties between the two countries that fought a five-day war [...]

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — A U.S. military refueling plane on its way to Afghanistan exploded in midair and crashed in Kyrgyzstan on Friday when its cargo of fuel ignited, the Kyrgyz Emergency Situations Ministry said. The aircraft took [...]

A Boeing 707 jet used to carry fuel for the U.S. military has crashed near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, Russian news agencies are reporting. Rescue teams from the U.S. air base outside the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, and the [...]

Flight delays that stranded scores of passengers for more than 10 hours at Domodedovo Airport this week were caused by mechanical problems with their aircraft, federal authorities said. Flights operated by the airlines Kolavia and Yamal [...]

The former military school in Tbilisi that was the target of the 1920 coup attempt. Ninety-three years ago today, on May 3, 1920, Bolsheviks attempted to seize power in the Democratic Republic of Georgia with an armed [...]

Moscow authorities have approved an anti-Kremlin rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad on May 6 but rejected a request to also stage a march, saying it would disrupt traffic on a working day. “The Moscow Mayor’s Office agreed to the [...]

A screen grab of the open letter signed by 171 child experts, including several who worked with young Beslan survivors. A group of top Russian child psychologists, psychiatrists and educators have appealed to President Vladimir [...]

Journalist Masha Gessen has quit her post as director of the Russian-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty after seven months to write a book about the Boston bombing suspects. Radio Liberty announced Gessen’s departure [...]

Ireland has dropped plans to impose U.S.-style Magnitsky sanctions on Russia after Moscow warned that it might respond by banning Irish parents from adopting Russian children. The Russian opposition assailed Ireland, saying it had not only [...]

William Plotnikov, right, is seen in this undated handout photo released by the Dagestani branch of the Federal Security Service. UTAMYSH, Dagestan — A mess of rubble, ash and charred vehicles is all that’s left at the [...]

BOSTON — Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been arrested and accused of removing a backpack containing hollowed-out fireworks from Tsarnaev’s dorm room three days after the attack [...]

Scores of passengers hoping to spend the May holidays abroad have been delayed at Domodedovo Airport after their airlines either overbooked flights or failed to have back-up planes available when scheduled aircraft were waylaid. Passengers [...]

Vladislave Surkov speaking at an event in 2010. Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov told students in London that the political system that he helped create had beat the opposition and suggested that he had been one Russia’s [...]

Sixty-two years ago today, on May 2, 1945, the Soviet Union announced the capture of Berlin in World War II, and Soviet soldiers hoisted their red flag over the Reichstag building.

A UTair Boeing 757 similar to the one that made the emergency landing in Moscow on Friday. A UTair jetliner carrying 245 people made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport on Friday after oxygen masks deployed [...]

A Kolavia Airbus A320 parked at Domodedovo Airport in 2009. The airline has experienced huge delays this week. Flight delays persisted Friday at Domodedovo Airport as federal authorities linked at least some of the trouble, now [...]

People protesting late Thursday outside the Dyer-Lake Funeral Home, where they believe Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body was being held, in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. BOSTON — The two Chechen brothers suspected of carrying [...]

Mariinsky Theater director Valery Gergiev, arms upraised, taking a bow wth other performers at the new stage’s grand opening Thursday night. ST. PETERSBURG — Enlisting the drama of Prokofiev and the elegance of Tchaikovsky, [...]

A map of the countries where the Committee to Protect Journalists says journalists are slain and the killers go free. A U.S. media watchdog has named Russia as one of the top countries that gives impunity to the killers of journalists [...]

An international media watchdog has called President Vladimir Putin a ”predator” of free press and lumped him together with the likes of new Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Italian Mafia. But the France-based Reporters [...]

An intoxicated and possibly mentally ill driver caused a security scare at Sheremetyevo Airport after managing to drive his car onto the airfield. The driver, identified only as a 53-year-old Moscow resident, used his Nissan Pathfinder [...]

Moscow drivers are used to being delayed because of President Vladimir Putin’s motorcade. But now a planeload of passengers might be able to blame Putin for their late arrival in St. Petersburg. A passenger jet operated by state-owned [...]

Krasnoyarsk marchers chanting, “Hey, hey, hey, we’re being visited by Sasha Grey,” in reference to the U.S. porn actress. +18 While scores of people marched for and against President Vladimir Putin on May Day, several [...]

Putin pinning a medal on Valery Gergiev, the world-renowned conductor and director of the Mariinsky Theater. President Vladimir Putin awarded Hero of Labor awards to the director of the Mariinsky Theater and four other people [...]

Demonstrators marching past City Hall at 13 Tverskaya Ulitsa during a May Day rally on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of people marched in central Moscow on Wednesday at a May Day rally billed as a show of support for President [...]

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov invited Japan to work with Russia on building a 10-kilometer bridge to connect Sakhalin Island with the Russian mainland. Shuvalov, who ws speaking Tuesday at a Russian-Japanese business [...]

Demonstrators marching past City Hall at 13 Tverskaya Ulitsa during a May Day rally on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of people marched in central Moscow on Wednesday for a May Day rally billed as a show of support for President [...]

A Perm court has sentenced the owner of a nightclub where a fire killed 156 people to nearly 10 years in jail after convicting him and seven others, including organizers of a fireworks show that touched off the blaze. The 2009 fire [...]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The U.S. space agency is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space and home again, and the agency’s leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense. NASA announced its latest [...]

Economic Development Minister Andrei Belousov has warned that Russia has “three, four, a maximum of five years” to carry out structural reforms to the economy before the global energy balance changes, possibly leading to a [...]