Russia

Russian foreign ministry says Washington's comment on opposition leader Alexei Navalny's bid is 'direct interference' in the electoral process.

Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the Meteor-M satellite was lost after launch last month after it was programmed to launch from the wrong cosmodrome.

A popular Russian TV presenter was shot dead by her estranged husband in front of her nine-year-old son over a bitter custody battle.

Ten Christmas shoppers were injured after a bomb with the equivalent of 200g of TNT ripped through the Perekrestok market in the north west of the city.

The HMS St Albans monitored the Russian vessel Admiral Gorshkov's "activity in areas of national interest".

At least four people were killed Christmas Day when a Moscow bus mowed down pedestrians near Slavyansky Boulevard station.

A Russian news agency reported initial investigations suggesting the man tripped and fell in a glass table while using a VR headset, leading to his death.

Paedophile Alexander Georgievsky faces life in jail after luring Ruslan Korolev, 10, to his flat in Russia before strangling him and dismembering his body.

A Russian couple who fled to fight for Islamic State extremists left their daughter an orphan after they both died in combat. She has now been reunited with her grandparents.

North Korea has slammed US President Donald Trump's new national security strategy as a "criminal document," renewing the war of words between the two nations.

Facebook is changing how it identifies "fake news" for users, dropping its 'disputed flags' in favour of 'related articles' that add context to stories on the social network.

Footage shows Russian deputy PM showing off liquid breathing technology experiment by forcing dachshund into tube.

A randy couple in Moscow had to walk home after they were thrown out of out of a taxi for romping on the back seat.

Anastasia Ovsiannikova suffered severe bruising, internal bleeding and broken bones, and subsequently went into a coma.

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 incident happened when the drunk woman first demanded a row of seats and then tried to change her ticket to business class.

"Was this Trump's performance review?" one Twitter user questioned.

Russian authorities are currently working to create a legal framework to regulate virtual currencies as their value and interest continues to boom.

Moscow had dismissed hacking allegations as "baseless" while Trump has continued to denounce the ongoing Russia probe as a "witch hunt".

The head of the UK's Armed Forces has warned that Russia's Navy threatens underwater communication cables. Sir Stuart Peach issued the warning in a speech to the RUSI think tank.

Russian money made its way to Assad regime's chemical weapons programme and the oil trade with Isis, BuzzFeed investigation into slush funds reveals.

Ex-British prime minister, David Cameron, says Donald Trump is undermining western democracy with his attacks on the media.

More than 80 malicious apps were discovered lurking on Google's official Play Store that were designed to hijack credentials for VK, the Facebook-like Russian social network.

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

Konstantin Kozlovsky said he began cooperating with the FSB back in 2008 at the age of 16 and "did everything that they said".

Despite outspending both Russia and China on national security, the US military could lose the next war - new Rand Corporation report claims.

"Hopefully better days to come," one Twitter user wrote.

"If they can't cope with a few naked bums, then frankly that's quite sad," Angus Malcolm, producer and photographer of the Warwick Rowers calendar, said.

He will stand in elections which will be taking place next year in Russia and victory would see him lead until 2024.