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A Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane has unexpectedly turned back to Sheremetyevo Airport shortly after taking off, increasing concerns over the safety of the aircraft after a similar jet crash-landed at the Moscow airport last week, killing dozens of people on board.
Officials Russia's Rostov region have opened a criminal investigation hours after a gas explosion at an apartment building killed an adult and a child.
Russian journalist Sergei Dorenko has died in Moscow, Russian media reported.
A member of the Russian feminist protest group Pussy Riot says a close friend of a detained group member has been taken to custody by Russia police without explanation along with her boyfriend.
Aeroflot has canceled or delayed more than a half-dozen flights that used the Sukhoi Superjet, days after 41 people were killed in a crash-landing at a Moscow airport.
Russian authorities said they have arrested a man accused of involvement in the brutal beating nine years ago of prominent Russian journalist Oleg Kashin.
Russian news reports say that investigators are looking at whether pilot error is to blame for the crash of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 at a Moscow airport that killed 41 people.
Russian authorities said 41 people were killed when a passenger jet burst into flames in an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, and that the pilot said problems started when the aircraft was struck by lightning.
At least 13 people, including two children, have died after a harrowing 45-minute flight on a Russian Aeroflot plane that was forced to make a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his counterpart from Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, in Moscow on May 5 to discuss possible steps to help solve the current power struggle that is crippling the South American nation.
U.S. President Donald Trump has appealed for a swift end to the "brutal repression" of the Venezuelan people, after U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido's call for a military uprising appeared to fall short.
A Russian administrative court has issued 10-day jail sentences against two opposition figures in St. Petersburg for organizing what the court ruled was an unauthorized May Day protest.
Moscow police estimated 100,000 people marched in the Russian capital to mark May Day and celebrate workers' rights, including many members of the country's Communist Party.
Police have detained scores of people across Russia as opposition activists, communists, and union members marked May Day with holiday rallies and antigovernment protests.
Mohammad Nasser was 10-years-old when he was brought from Afghanistan to the Soviet Union under a special program for orphans. Now he's fighting a court battle to avoid deportation to a homeland he doesn't know.
A Russian man is unbowed after being convicted for insulting President Vladimir Putin after calling the president an obscene word online.
Security officials in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia have searched the home of activist Akhmet Pogorov, one of the organizers behind two mass rallies last month against a controversial border deal with neighboring Chechnya.
An unidentified person in Russia's Novgorod Oblast has become the first person to be convicted and fined under a controversial new law penalizing "disrespect toward the authorities."
A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detainment period for several of the 24 Ukrainian seamen who were jailed after the Russian Coast Guard seized their vessels near the Kerch Strait in a flare-up of tensions in November.
A Russian court has ordered the release on parole of Aleksandra Ivanova, a former university student who was convicted of trying to join the extremist group Islamic State (IS).
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