The nation’s top military officer appealed to the Senate on Monday to ratify a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia, as supporters attracted more Republican votes, making it increasingly likely that the pact would be approved.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will seek arms and nuclear-power contracts during an Indian visit starting today that follows trips by U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

MOSCOW — Reporters and international observers who arrived at court here early Wednesday morning, hoping to get a seat for the resumption of the trial of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, found a piece of paper tacked to the courtroom door. The...

Muscovites are dying from extreme heat and smoke faster than their bodies can be stored, cremated or buried, and Russians are worried the death toll could be far higher than the official count. Morgues are overflowing and one crematorium in the Russian...

Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency yesterday as more than 10,000 firefighters battled to save villages and forests from being reduced to ash and ember during the country’s hottest summer on record.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dmitry Medvedev have proposed a joint European Union-Russian security committee aimed at resolving regional crises and conflicts. Merkel and Medvedev told reporters after a meeting outside of Berlin on...

Moscow’s police chief has been forced to apologize after allegations that motorists were ordered to move their vehicles into the path of a speeding getaway car, putting their vehicles, not to mention their lives, at extreme risk. Moscow police...

Most of us have encountered that period in our work day where all inspiration has simple vanished. A problem that, at the beginning of the day, seemed simple enough to be put off until later, has become insurmountable.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Russia was shocked the UN and NATO had secretly signed a cooperation agreement without all UN member states reading the draft.

Ugh, English almost caused our marriage to end! My husband refused to learn English for several years. This baffled my family, made it very hard for my husband to find work, and to be honest–it just really made me feel hurt. (If I could go back, I’d...