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Facebook is tweaking what people see to make their time on it more "meaningful" in a move that could hurt publishers and news organisations that rely on it to spread their content.

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is considering the development of a state-run cryptocurrency that could be used to shirk international sanctions.

Opposition figure Alexey Navalny says he has the public support to run in Russia's presidential election against Vladimir Putin.

The former foreign secretary William Hague says that Russia is not Britain's enemy, as his successor is set to hold talks in Moscow.

Kremlin-linked troll accounts on Twitter and Facebook have reportedly used fake profiles to incite anger and spread confusion following terror attacks in the UK.

The CIA provided information that helped prevent bombings in St Petersburg's Kazansky Cathedral and other sites, the Kremlin said.

Donald Trump's tweets have divided the public and officials from across the globe, but Russia is taking them seriously.

Latest tit-for-tat between Russia and the US over government-funded media outlets sees Voice of America ejected.

The Kremlin has been drawn into a war of words with the UK press over whether a President Vladimir Putin calendar has sold out in Britain.

Preparations for the 2018 Fifa World Cup begin in earnest when the 32 qualified nations learn their opponents in the group stage draw on Friday, 1 December.

Dmitry Medvedev, the PM of Russia, today (30 November) said that state-sponsored hacking and espionage is normal, criticising the belief that every hack has Kremlin links.

Transport for London is being urged to review "highly-political" advertisements currently in circulation by RT – a Russian media outlet accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda.

Fancy Bear is widely believed to have orchestrated the cyberattacks against the Democratic National Party during the 2016 presidential election.

Russian president signs law requiring foreign media outlets to register as "foreign agents" putting them under additional scrutiny.

A number of prominent British MPs have defended receiving heft pay checks for speaking appearances on the broadcaster RT, formerly Russia Today.

Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina tells IBTimes UK that the west needs to keep up pressure on Moscow over its annexation of Crimea as her group fights for more freedoms in Russia.

National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin will confirm that Moscow hacked the UK's energy grid to try to cause a blackout in Britain.

Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has released a fresh batch of secret documentation allegedly pilfered from inside the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Was the BadRabbit cyberattack a red herring, designed to throw people off the scent of the mission's real objective?

The hit list provides the most detailed forensic evidence yet of the close alignment between the hackers and the Russian government.

Paid Russian trolls linked to the Kremlin tried to sow fear and mistrust in America by pushing an African-American "war on Christmas".

Upon analysis, multiple cybersecurity firms – including Cisco Talos, FSecure and Symantec – have now concluded that an exploit known as 'EternalRomance' helped the malware spread.

Twitter said the decision, which impacts "all accounts" owned by the outlets, is effective immediately. It cited the alleged Russian interference during the 2016 US election.

Ksenia Sobchak unveiled her Russian presidential campaign team insisting she won't sling mud at Vladimir Putin, whom her father mentored.

The analysts found a cache of files belonging to the Equation Group, an extraordinarily powerful band of hackers that would later be exposed as an arm of the NSA.

In a letter to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Damian Collins said the information is being sought for an investigation into "the role of foreign actors abusing platforms."

The US government barred federal agencies from using Kaspersky's anti-virus products because of concerns about its ties to the Kremlin and Russian spy operations.

TV personality Ksenia Sobchak has announced she will run for Russia's 2018 presidency. Her father was a mentor to Putin but liberals fear it will play into the Kremlin's hands.

US intelligence believes that at least two Moscow-linked hacking groups targeted American institutions in order to help spread misinformation and propaganda last year.

YouTube, one of the most popular video platforms in the world, has now become a major focus in the ongoing Congressional probe looking into alleged Russian election interference.