Instant messaging app in spotlight after IS attacks

It offers an encrypted chat service with self-destructing messages

19 Nov 2015 6:12 PM

Russia steps up offensive, claims to have destroyed 500 ISIS oil tankers

False alarm caused by a drunken Pole taking rubbish: Bulgaria's premier

19 Nov 2015 4:58 PM

Russia, China agrees $2 billion deal for 24 Su-35 warplanes: state firm

Su-35 is an upgraded 'fourth-generation' multirole fighter

19 Nov 2015 4:53 PM

Russia: Drop demands on Assad, unite against ISIS

Russia said on Wednesday that, following the carnage in Paris, it was now clear that global powers should unite without any preconditions on the fate of Syria’s embattled leader Bashar al-Assad.

19 Nov 2015 12:49 AM

Google to contest Russia's antitrust ruling on Android

Google has until December 18 to amend its contracts with smartphone manufacturers

18 Nov 2015 9:41 AM

Vladimir Putin vows revenge on ISIS for plane bomb

Russian President Vladimir Putin (centre), defence minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian Army Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov, head of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov observe a minute of silence ahead of a meeting on the results of the investigation into the Russian MetroJet Airbus A321 crash at the Kremlin (Photo: AFP)

18 Nov 2015 12:29 AM

Russia confirms bomb attack brought down Egypt plane, vows revenge

We will find them in any part of the world and punish them, says Putin

17 Nov 2015 3:35 PM

Plane brought down by homemade explosive device: Russia

Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for the attack

17 Nov 2015 2:03 PM

Vladimir Putin vows to 'find and punish' those behind Sinai plane attack

We will find them in any part of the world and punish them: Putin

17 Nov 2015 1:52 PM

Russia's security chief says plane over Sinai downed in 'terror act'

He said the plane disintegrated in midair due to a bomb, equivalent of a kilo of TNT

17 Nov 2015 1:44 PM

Vladimir Putin’s daughters and 2nd-generation elite

Since Vladimir Putin began cementing his grip on Russia in the 1990s, many of his friends have grown famously rich.

17 Nov 2015 6:14 AM

Russia agrees to clean-up with eye on Rio

Russia’s Olympic committee said it would lead reform Russian athletics on Saturday and the sport’s head said he was prepared to resign as a doping scandal threatened to cost Russia its place at the 20

14 Nov 2015 10:44 PM

Vladimir Putin orders action on Russia doping

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia must “do everything” to stamp out doping, ordering an inquiry into allegations of major drug abuse in athletics which could result in the country

12 Nov 2015 10:45 PM

Kremlin admits TV stations showed 'secret' nuclear torpedo plan

12 Nov 2015 9:42 AM

Vladimir Putin orders action over explosive doping claims

12 Nov 2015 9:17 AM

Vladimir Putin’s older daughter Maria is a specialist in biomedical science

Maria now uses the surname Faassen

11 Nov 2015 10:44 AM

Russia responds as scandal threatens to spread

Russia rejected Tuesday explosive accusations of doping and corruption and promised a rapid response to avoid suspension from the 2016 Olympics due to the scandal that threatens to spread far beyond t

11 Nov 2015 12:12 AM

Russians outraged over 'blasphemous' Charlie Hebdo cartoons on plane crash

French magazine published two cartoons after a Russian passenger plane crash

09 Nov 2015 12:28 PM

No emergency evacuation for 80,000 Russians still in Egypt: Moscow

Russia halted flights to Egypt on Friday amid fears that the crashed Russian jet was...

07 Nov 2015 3:21 PM

Ex-IAAF chief suspected of taking bribes: Prosecutor

The former head of world athletics is suspected of receiving just over 1 million euros in bribes in 2011 to cover up positive doping tests of Russian athletes, the office of France’s financial prosecu

07 Nov 2015 6:41 AM