Twenty-eight thousand people have been evacuated and dozens injured by a massive fire in a Russian arms depot where tonnes of artillery shells and rockets are stored.
An online museum has been launched by RFI and French research institute, the CNRS. It looks ath the grim history of Stalin’s Gulag. Survivors speak to RFI.
Russia may send one or two of the warships it is buying from France to help protect the Kuril chain of islands, which are the centre of a bitter dispute with Japan.
Belarus votes in presidential elections on Sunday. Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko is expected to win a fourth five-year term with a comfortable majority.
The lower house of the Russian parliament has approved a declaration that Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin personally ordered the Katyn massacre of Polish officers in 1940, Russian media ...
Kyrgyzstan’s former Foreign Minister Rosa Otunbayeva was sworn in as president on Saturday, becoming the first woman president in ex-Soviet central Asia.
Troops from the Nato military alliance paraded on Moscow’s Red Square for the first time ever on Sunday, invited by Russia’s government to take part in celebrations of the end of World ...
