WASHINGTON — The top two Senate Republicans declared Sunday that they would vote against President Obama’s nuclear treaty with Russia as the bipartisan spirit of last week’s tax-cut deal devolved into a sharp battle over national security...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — International experts say demand in China poses the greatest threat to tigers in the wild and organized crime runs the illicit trade in the world’s largest felines.

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev met his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday on the sidelines of a Caspian forum in Baku, Azerbaijan, to discuss the Iranian nuclear programme and bilateral relations.

“Mutual trust” will be the key to developing the vast resources of the Arctic and protecting its fragile ecosystems, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said today.

Exiled Chechen independence leader Akhmed Zakayev has been freed from custody in Poland after being arrested earlier in the day on a Russian warrant accusing him of terrorism. “Poland respects democratic values,” Mr Zakayev said in a live...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says his country’s economy is improving rapidly. Putin said Friday that Russia “has managed to overcome the recession in a relatively short time.” Speaking at an investor forum in the Black Sea...

Mayor Yury Luzhkov defiantly fought back against an unprecedented smear campaign on state television Tuesday, promising that he would not resign. “I do not fear those attacks and will fight,” he told a United Russia meeting in the capital. The...

Galina Litvyak had stopped by the kiosk down the road, wandered through nearby supermarkets and badgered friends for the latest rumors. Nobody knew where to find it. All over her middle-class neighborhood, the stores were filled with an ample selection...

A Russian police officer who posted a video on the internet alleging the police force in his home town was corrupt has been arrested. Alexei Dymovsky, who became widely known after speaking out on video-sharing site YouTube in November, has been...

A suicide bomber killed at least six policemen and wounded another 14 people on Wednesday in Russia’s southern region of Dagestan by detonating a car packed with explosives at a traffic police depot.