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Alternatives to Putin a mixed bag as Russian election looms

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn’t said if he will stand for a fourth term. But with the election a little more than four months off, the presidential race is a mélange of hypo...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Uzbekistan’s only president dies at 78 Clans expected to fight over who will head Central Asian nation

MOSCOW – Islam Karimov, who crushed all opposition in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan as its only president in a quarter-century of independence from the Soviet Union, has died of a ...

DATE: Sep 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Orthodox faithful mark Christmas with services, celebrations

MOSCOW – For much of the Orthodox Christian world, Thursday is celebrated as Christmas Day. Believers in Russia, Ukraine, and parts of Eastern Europe and the Middle East flocked to churches ...

DATE: Jan 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Religion

Russia defends airstrikes in Syria

Minister denies targeting U.S.-backed rebel forces

DATE: Oct 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Putin, Obama to meet on Monday

Crises in Syria, Ukraine to be discussed

DATE: Sep 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

2 charged, 3 detained in killing

Russia’s opposition movement shaken

DATE: Mar 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ukraine fighting continues

Cease-fire agreement near collapse

DATE: Feb 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: Russia to block U.S. agricultural imports

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hit back hard against countries that have imposed sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, ordering trade cuts that an official said would in...

DATE: Aug 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Top Ukrainian commander held

He helped lead protests pushing for ouster of former president

DATE: Mar 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Putin to U.S.: It’s our way or the highway

Russians say the sanctions by Obama, West ‘absolutely ignore reality’

DATE: Mar 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sochi: A city of contrasts

From palms trees, to snow, to the Winter Olympics

DATE: Feb 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Politics, law overlap in Russia

MOSCOW – In the minutes after opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to prison, the Russian stock market took a dive. When a court released him a day later, share prices dropped mark...

DATE: Jul 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World