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Now that Thiel's vendetta against the media gossip site is the talk of the town, media baron Nick Denton is on the offensive.

The last time the Russian president was rated so “poorly” in a poll by Levada-Center was in February 2014, just before Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Stanislav Klikh and Nikolai Karpyukh were sentenced to two decades behind bars for allegedly fighting alongside Chechen rebels in the 1990s.

Billionaires could save journalism, but PayPal founder Peter Thiel reportedly has bankrolled the destruction of an entire media outlet.

Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was welcomed in Kiev on Wednesday after being released in a prisoner exchange with Russia.

Russia reportedly released Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko in exchange for two Russian special forces officers.

Russia’s car sales fell 8.5 percent in April from a year earlier — to their lowest level in a decade — as the industry continues to feel the impact of the country’s recession.

Nongovernmental organizations that address social problems like HIV are now in the Kremlin’s firing line — under a law signed by Vladimir Putin.

Putin's squad won 9-5, but the story of the night was the president's unplanned meeting between his backside and the ice.

“I wanted my mother to take part today,” said Lyudmilla Vetrova. Her mother helped build the defenses that protected Moscow from Nazi forces in 1941. 

Maestro Valery Gergiev and Russia's Marinsky Theater will host a concert in the ancient city of Palmyra.

Many of the nation’s citizens spend more than half their income on food as they battle the effects of inflation and declining wages. Nearly 20 million live in poverty.

SamSat-218, which weighs just over three pounds, was placed into orbit during the first launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome.

As Aleppo is rocked by airstrikes — about 250 people have been killed recently — Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov meets this week with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura.

“If this is how Trump supporters swing into action, what happens when the press looks into corrupt dealings, for example, or is critical of [the candidate's] policies?” Julia Ioffe worries.

It will spend 725 million euros on defense in 2017, about 1.8 percent of its economy and almost as much as it spent from 2011 to 2013.

The increase comes as European nations debate whether to continue their economic sanctions against Russia over the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine.

Instability in the South Caucasus region has prompted nervousness in Armenia over the future of its relationship with Russia.

Finance chiefs are caught between public calls for greater transparency and company concerns that fully disclosed data will be misinterpreted.

Seven highlights from the Russian president’s annual, and highly stage-managed, question-and-answer session.