Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the Hermitage Museum, is sanctioned for the museum’s role under his leadership in illegal ...

Russian troops have intensified mining coastlines in Russian-occupied Crimea to prevent a possible landing by Ukrainian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Investigators from Russia's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) have uncovered a new palace belonging to Russian leader Vladimir ...

The Soviet-designed military transport turboprop aircraft crashed into a cliff, sources at the scene told state news agencies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Crimea on Monday to mark the fifth anniversary of Moscow's annexation of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine, condemned by the West but celebrated by ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin looks likely to go down in history as the Russian leader who won back Crimea, but he is fighting to avoid also being remembered as the man who let Ukraine escape from ...

Defence ministry says contact was lost with the An-26 military transport aircraft whilst it was on a scheduled flight over the Crimean Peninsula ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin today approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea, one of a flurry of steps to formally take over the Black Sea peninsula. Crimea on Sunday voted ...

Two days after Vladimir Putin defied President Obama’s warning not to intervene in Ukraine‘s Crimea region, administration officials said they are already taking punitive economic and diplomatic ...