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NATO’s general-secretary noted “persistent disagreements­” at the first meeting of the NATO-Russia Council since the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2014.

A Dutch court on Wednesday struck down a July 2014 ruling that ordered Russia to pay $50 billion in damages to former shareholders of the now-defunct Yukos oil company.

Breakthroughs are not expected in the first Russia-NATO talks since the start of the Ukraine crisis following provocative Russian military maneuvers in the Baltic Sea.

High inflation and falling real wages mean Russians are spending over 50 percent of their incomes on food for the first time in almost a decade.

The Israeli prime minister said he had spoken by telephone with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Saturday and told him Israel’s security must not be compromised.

Tehran fears a loss of regional influence if Russia’s recent military pullback leads to the removal of Syria’s Bashar Assad, observers say.

Ahead of next week's meeting between Western and Russian military leaders, the Kremlin is showing little appetite for improved relations.

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

The Russian president was answering questions from Russian citizens — about 2.5 million questions were submitted — during an annual call-in show Thursday.

Russian authorities insisted the maneuvers were routine.

NATO has said it will not return to business as usual until Russia respects international law.

But despite revelations about the offshore account in leaked documents, David Cameron is adamant he’s done nothing wrong.

European Union officials want to draw up a list of “noncooperative jurisdictions­” after the recent data leak that linked prominent officials to offshore accounts.

Russia’s fraying relations with Egypt and Turkey have hit the two countries’ important tourism sectors.

Its recession is likely to be more severe than was originally predicted, according to the World Bank, thanks to plummeting oil prices and sanctions.

Russia has more than 19 million people living in poverty as low oil prices are expected to keep battering its recessionary economy.

In an apparent case of art imitating life, Ramón Fonseca’s novel explores such themes as illicit “enrichment.”

Russia has continued to build its arsenal despite an agreement with the U.S. to reduce stockpiles by 2018.

Mossack Fonseca, the Panama law firm at the center of the exposé, called itself a victim of an anti-privacy campaign.

Multiple federal agencies are looking at the huge trove of data with an eye toward criminal and civil investigations.