LATEST RUSSIAN NEWS WITH UPDATES ON THE WAR ON ISIS IN SYRIA

From Little Havana to Little Moscow: Russians rush to buy Miami real estate following Trump's election

31/01/17 22:17

31/01/17 21:21

A dazed cat was filmed purring with delight after she was given an oxygen mask by a kind firefighter who rescued her from a blaze in a residential part of Moscow, Russia.

31/01/17 20:05

Under the ruse, clients illegally moved the money out of Russia via shares bought and sold through the bank's Moscow, London and New York offices.

31/01/17 18:29

Shocking footage, believed to have been filmed in Russia, shows a Michael Jackson impersonator dancing to Smooth Criminal before a man emerges from the crowd and attempts a flip.

31/01/17 14:56

Alisa Tsyrenova and Lyubov Tsyrenova from Siberia gave birth to girls Yulia and Dugarma 34 years ago but are coming to terms with the fact they raised daughters who weren't their own.

31/01/17 14:37

The Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm Jumeirah was annoyed at geo-tags on Instagram, complaining that they looked like a lingerie shoot. In retaliation, women staged a racy display outside.

31/01/17 10:58

Analysts from the Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish organisation that probes crimes against the Polish nation, have been studying handwritten documents by a agent codenamed Bolek.

31/01/17 02:08

Russia is starting to build nuclear icebreakers as it vies for dominance in the polar region with traditional rivals Canada, the United States, and Norway as well as newcomer China.

30/01/17 15:42

In the clip the 'very aggressive' Russian man can be seen growling and shouting while his fellow passengers are forced to restrain him in his seat on the 11-hour flight from London to Bangkok.

30/01/17 11:26

Glass Beach on Ussuri Bay, near Vladivostok, was used to dump beer, wine and vodka bottles. But over time, the jagged glass has been smoothed over to form kaleidoscopic pebbles.

28/01/17 23:52

Russian spin doctor and Putin confidante Maria Zakharova, who has called the Foreign Secretary ‘shameful’, is guest of honour at a reception at the Commons Terrace Pavilion, London.

28/01/17 23:42

Major General Jonathan Shaw said nothing could be done to stop the attacks which may lead to top-secret information being read by Vladimir Putin. Shaw suggests keeping less info on computers.

28/01/17 15:21

American historian Douglas Smith has lifted the lid on the extraordinary stash of US Army Major Martin Manhoff who was expelled from the USSR for leaving sensitive documents on a train.

28/01/17 12:21

The fighter jet (pictured) was unveiled in a ceremony at the MiG factory in Lukhovitsy, Moscow on Friday and test flights with the Russian air force will begin this month.

28/01/17 02:07

Georgy Urumov, 37, and Vladimir Gersamia, 33, swindled Russian-owned banking group Otkritie. They then moved money to different accounts throughout the world to hide their crime.

28/01/17 01:41

Bars, a Maine Coon kitty, was filmed by his owner opening one drawer at his home in Moscow, Russia. His owner, Tanya Shpakus, said: 'He's very stubborn and always achieves his goals.'

27/01/17 23:54

At the news conference this afternoon in the White House's East Room, Trump seemed to deny that sanctions relief is currently on the table. 'Very early to be talking about that,' he said.

27/01/17 23:44

Diplomats at the Russian embassy opened a poetic word of warning with Theresa May after she sounded a note of caution about Donald Trump's apparent willingness to forge closer ties with Putin.

27/01/17 16:07

President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak on the telephone Saturday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for the first time since taking the oath of office on Friday.

27/01/17 15:22

The near miss involved an S7 plane as it brought passengers to the terminal after landing at Novosibirsk's Tolmachevo airport in Russia after a flight from Beijing.

27/01/17 10:39

The 85-year-old, who oversaw an easing of tensions with the West that helped to end the Cold War in the early 1990s, said reversing a 'ruinous' global arms race must be the world's 'top priority'.

27/01/17 01:27

British Prime Minister Theresa May complimented ascendant Republicans on their election victories, even as she defended free trade and international institutions in a speech.

26/01/17 23:46

Vera Brezhneva, 34, is regularly called the country's biggest stunner - and even took home the crown of Maxim's most beautiful woman in Russia earlier this month.

26/01/17 23:36

The Russian president visited Moscow State University yesterday and sang a brief excerpt from a Soviet-era space exploration song called '14 minutes to the launch'. He grabbed the mic to join in.

26/01/17 08:39

Russia's huge aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is passing through the English Channel on its way back from its bombing campaign in Syria.

25/01/17 19:54

The ice breaks into shards after it hits the shoreline and remarkably even appears to look like a genuine wave as people gathered on the beach to watch the phenomenon at Lake Baika in Russia.

25/01/17 18:06

Shocking CCTV video footage of Olga Klintsova manoeuvring a pram into a block of flats in Russia shows a block crashing down on her, for which she was awarded £50,000 in compensation.

25/01/17 12:01

The incident took place in the city of Ufa in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, and CCTV footage in the elevator captures the boy desperately trying to push the buttons and prise the door apart - all to no avail.

25/01/17 03:39

Sergei Millian, who runs the privately-operated Russian American Chamber of Commerce, was named as the source of explosive allegations about the president's links to Russia on Tuesday.

24/01/17 23:03

The missiles, which can carry up to ten nuclear warheads up to 8,700 miles, are reportedly being moved to Heilongjiang province in north eastern China close to the frontier with Russia.

24/01/17 22:31

A Russian woman who moved to an unheated wooden hut in the mountains 20 years ago to hone her photography skills has finally released the culmination of her efforts - and it is stunning.

24/01/17 21:36

Hundreds of terrified shoppers have been evacuated from a burning shopping mall in Moscow. Footage posted on social media tonight shows the building engulfed in a raging fireball.

24/01/17 13:10

A team of Russian scientists have successfully tested their first railgun, which is fast enough to rip through any type of armour. The weapon relies on electromagnetic forces.

24/01/17 08:45

Russian photographer Kristina Makeeva captured Siberia's Lake Baikal - the oldest and deepest freshwater lake in the world - frozen over to reveal vast cracks and trapped bubbles.

24/01/17 00:27

The US military has rubbished claims Russian fighter jets have flown their first combat mission in Syria alongside American-led coalition forces.

23/01/17 23:39

The Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm Jumeirah - where a suite costs more than £1,000 - wants to ban flesh-baring models from using the name of their hotel in a hashtag or sharing their location.

23/01/17 21:19

A large fireball was seen crossing the Siberian sky on June 20, 1908 before an eruption six miles above ground flattened 80 million trees and left charred reindeer carcases.

23/01/17 19:16

At first it seems nothing more than a tiny light in the sky. But when the advanced camera zooms in, the luminous object appears more like a large ball with microstructures visible within.

23/01/17 17:15

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin see the fight against ISIS as a 'major priority'.

23/01/17 16:32

The unidentified woman, whose name and age were not disclosed, reportedly works in the Research Institute of Emergency Medicine in the northern Russian city of St Petersburg.

23/01/17 13:38

Michael Flynn has come under investigation as part of a counterintelligence examination of communications between Russian government members and Trump's inner circle.

23/01/17 12:34

Last night saw dozens of women gather in Kazan to compete for the prestigious title of Miss Tatarstan 2017 in a unique beauty pageant.

23/01/17 11:44

A car was spotted being 'towed' by means of a vehicle behind bumping into its rear and pushing it along a busy Russian road while a man sits in the open boot holding a tire over the bumper.

23/01/17 09:48

A couple in Russia dumped their dog at an airport to freeze to death while they flew on holiday to Germany. Their pet, Tori, was discovered dead three days later.

22/01/17 03:44

Grigory Rodchenkov was head of the Moscow laboratory behind the Russian doping scandal. In a new documentary, Icarus, he claims Putin released him from prison to help athletes dope.

21/01/17 13:22

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet U.S. President Donald Trump but preparations for the possible meeting may take months.

20/01/17 18:18

Russia is in the grip of 'Trumpomania', with state media giving the President-elect blanket air time at the expense of more mundane and sometimes depressing domestic news stories.

20/01/17 17:16

A spectacular fireworks display on the eve of Trump's inauguration turned heads for the wrongs reasons when the pyrotechnics appeared to spell out 'USR' instead of 'USA'.

20/01/17 15:50

Russia says it is working on a new range of laser, plasma and electromagnetic weapons as well as hypersonic missiles.

20/01/17 15:09

Reclusive Russian oligarch Valery Kogan, 64, spent £3.5million on hiring Mariah carey and Sir Elton John to sing at his granddaughter's wedding at London's five star Landmark Hotel.

20/01/17 14:36

Professor Ilya Drozdov, 63, a scientist with knowledge of Moscow's bio-warfare secrets, has been put on Interpol's wanted list after vanishing without a trace from Russia.

19/01/17 22:20

Called Venera-D, the groundbreaking mission would send an orbiter to study Venus from above for at least three years, plus a lander that will operate for a few hours on the planet's surface.

19/01/17 20:11

A multi-agency working group including the FBI and intelligence agencies has been probing possible Kremlin financing of election hacking in the U.S., according to a report by McClatchy news.

19/01/17 18:04

Orthodox Russian Christians have braved freezing weather for the second day running to take cold dips in sub-zero temperatures to mark Epiphany.

19/01/17 09:46

Beaches at numerous coastal resorts across Europe have been wiped out by freak snow storms, schools have been closed, and roads were cut off as unusual driving conditions caused chaos.

19/01/17 09:01

Steven Moffat was supposed to address students at Russia's Channel One with his producer wife Sue Vertue until angry BBC bosses cancelled the appearance.

19/01/17 08:50

The Russian government rubbished claims it interfered in the election to help Trump win, and instead said foreign leaders who 'campaigned' for Hillary Clinton must be held accountable.

19/01/17 00:08

Defending a UN resolution calling for an end to settlement building, Obama said he doesn't 'see how this issue gets resolved in a way that maintains Israel as both Jewish and a democracy.'

18/01/17 16:58

Elena Spakhova, now 40, said she was devastated when she had to rush into hospital early after suffering pangs and was told that her longed-for baby was stillborn.

18/01/17 16:47

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, he described Russia as the biggest threat to the international liberal order, and called on the US and Europe to resist moves towards isolation.

18/01/17 14:47

The longtime Trump supporter claimed to have been told by doctors that a mysterious and debilitating virus he was suddenly struck with in December was in fact polonium poisoning.

18/01/17 12:44

Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been given leave to remain in Russia for another couple of years, authorities in Moscow have confirmed.

18/01/17 12:44

The Topol-M rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk, 500 miles north east of Moscow before reaching its target in the Kamchatka peninsula - some 3,750 miles to the east.

18/01/17 02:28

Americans don't think Russia's hacking of the Democratic National Convention changed the election outcome. 58 per cent said 'regardless of the information' Trump would've still won.

17/01/17 22:53

Hedge funder and Donald Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci attended the World Economic Forum in Davos to sooth critics, and met with the head of a Russian-backed investment fund.

17/01/17 21:02

The city's modern skyscapers, a striking architectural mark of the Putin era, protrude through the veil of fog and low cloud covering Russia's largest city as the sun sets.

17/01/17 14:31

Russia has been showing off a new tank-launched weapon which can be fired at incoming NATO missiles.

17/01/17 14:00

John Brennan insisted the 'dirty dossier' which claimed Russia had compromising material on Donald Trump did not come from inside the intelligence community.

17/01/17 12:14

The giant cheat note included detailed answers to 35 questions on nuclear physics that lecturers had warned students to expect.

16/01/17 21:40

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The suspected teenage murderer, named only as Alexander K (right), is accused of butchering his relatives at the family home in the city of Tambov in Russia.

16/01/17 18:50

Joe Biden made his final overseas trip before he leaves office to Kiev where he said the world must stand up to Kremlin aggression and urged Trump to be a partner of Ukraine.

16/01/17 18:41

Adml Sir Philip Jones told his sailors that the Navy was dealing with the highest level of activity from submarines and warships since the end of the Cold War.

16/01/17 17:28

Scientists at Altravita IVF clinic in Moscow played A State of Trance by DJ Armin van Buuren on a loop for 24 hours a day next to 758 eggs in a petri dish.

16/01/17 17:00

Russia has welcomed Donald Trump's comments that NATO was 'obsolete' and Vladimir Putin's spokesman said today: 'NATO is indeed a vestige of the past and we agree with that.'

16/01/17 13:51

Donald Trump has lashed out at outgoing CIA director John Brennan on Twitter after he said the president-elect didn't understand the threat posed by Russia.

16/01/17 07:26

A Russian-language version of the finale that appeared online on Saturday had a three-second continuity announcement identifying it as coming from Channel One.

16/01/17 07:00

Mike Pence dismissed claims that the Trump team had communicated with the Kremlin at all during the presidential campaign on Sunday.

16/01/17 04:15

A Russian version of BBC's Sherlock finale, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, has appeared online, prompting producers to urge fans not to spoil it for others.

16/01/17 01:10

John Brennan ripped into Donald Trump for 'talking and tweeting' about possibly easing sanctions against Russia, saying the president-elect lacks a full understanding of the threat Moscow poses.

16/01/17 01:09

Orders for the ring, which Prince William gave to Kate Middleton, have soared, the Royal family’s favourite jeweller has revealed. The ring was worth £28,000 when Prince Charles picked it.

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