Edward Snowden’s father arrives in Russia to meet fugitive son
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Edward Snowden's father arrived in Moscow on Thursday to visit the former U.S. spy agency contractor who is living in a secret location in Russia beyond the...
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Migrant workers rounded up in pre-Olympic Sochi: rights group
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities have detained hundreds of migrant workers in Sochi, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, and have held many of them in "arbitrary and inhuman...
Russia’s Putin brings ‘grey cardinal’ Surkov back to Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin named his former deputy chief of staff Vladislav Surkov as an aide on Friday, bringing back the creator of modern Russia's tightly controlled political...
Dozens missing after fire at Russian psychiatric hospital
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire raged through a Russian psychiatric hospital on Friday, killing at least one person and leaving dozens missing as police searched the surrounding area for survivors,...
Russia sending spy ship to Mediterranean: Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is sending a reconnaissance ship to the eastern Mediterranean, Interfax news agency reported on Monday, as the United States prepares for a possible military strike in...
Critics say Putin’s Olympic security decree violates rights
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to tighten security in the Black Sea resort of Sochi during the 2014 Winter Olympics, imposing restrictions on freedom...
Russia should drop ‘foreign agent’ tag for NGOs: rights official
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top European human rights official urged Russia on Monday to stop labeling non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as foreign agents under a law he said could have a...
Russia convicts lawyer Magnitsky in posthumous trial
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died in prison in suspicious circumstances, was found guilty of tax evasion on Thursday in a posthumous trial that has further...
Smitten spies? Snowden gets proposal tweet from Russian agent
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A tabloid says Vladimir Putin is Russia's most eligible bachelor, but the president may have competition from an American half his age: Edward Snowden, the former U.S....
Russia increasingly impatient over Snowden’s airport stay
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Edward Snowden should find another country to seek refuge in, a Russian official said on Thursday, signaling Moscow's growing impatience over the former U.S. spy agency contractor's...