VLADIMIR PUTIN

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will have no problem getting election to his third term as president, a state polling agency determined on Monday.

Keen to boost his notoriously bullish image, Putin said in a newspaper article that Russia would spend 23 trillion roubles ($770 billion) over a decade to modernize the former superpower's armed forces, warning of the need to protect the country from new regional and local wars sparked by foreign powers.

Hackers have tried to crash a vast network of Web cameras which Vladimir Putin has ordered to allay fears of vote-rigging in the March presidential election, a deputy minister said on Friday.

Hackers have tried to crash a vast network of Web cameras which Vladimir Putin has ordered to allay fears of vote-rigging in the March presidential election, a deputy minister said on Friday.

A video of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on trial for corruption and terrorism has gone viral in Russia, attracting millions of views after being posted on YouTube two days ago.

China said it will not protect either side in Syria, where clashes against between the government and protestors are growing more and more violent, but added that it is committed to alleviating the crisis.

The race is on to discover life in the most remote and extreme environment known on Earth.

Excess capacity in aluminium smelting will drag on for years to come, even while losses weigh on producers, as political pressures in China and Russia to keep jobs and push self-sufficiency prevent or delay plant closures.

A Russian officer was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday for giving missile secrets to the CIA.

Russia faced a barrage of condemnations after it joined China over the weekend in vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step aside, but Russia has stood resolutely behind its decision. Why?

Chanel star designer Karl Lagerfeld is already bored with the French presidential election.

Bitterly cold weather that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe swept westward over the continent on Saturday, as Russian natural-gas exporter Gazprom acknowledged it had been unable to meet increased demand as it battles its own deep freeze and had thus cut its supply for a few days.

Russia has accused European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton of interfering in the country's internal affairs.

A new website has been launched by the Russian government in order to monitor bureaucratic inefficiency and stupidity in the struggling nation.

Russia continues to sell arms to Syria as the Assad regime cracks down on political upheaval.

When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help.

The epic global shifts of 2011 transformed the political, economic, and social landscape from Shanghai to Sao Paolo, Washington to Cairo. No leader is safe from the vagaries of social unrest; no economy (not even China's) is unaffected by contagion from an over-leveraged, under-managed euro zone. No country is immune from the threat of asymmetric attacks - anything from a terrorist bomb to cybe...

President Obama can sing, and pretty well for that matter. He showed his appreciation for Al Green on Thursday by delivering lines from Let's stay together at a fundraiser in Harlem's Apollo Theater.

America's new ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, didn't exactly get the warmest of welcomes.

He is Russia's third richest man and has been described as its most eligible bachelor.

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, challenging Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency, sees no risk to his vast business interests from his foray into politics and expects to list his gold business in London soon.