Japanese lawmakers are revisiting a plan to build a $6.7 billion natural gas pipeline from Russia ahead of a visit by President Vladimir Putin.

The US has levelled an extraordinary threat against Russia admitting it has laid the groundwork for a devastating cyber assault against the country.

The US presidential election has become an object lesson in everything that ails a country long seen as a beacon of freedom and hope.

One of Putin's fondest conceits is that the US political system is every bit as corrupt, authoritarian and bent on external aggression as his regime.

Russian submarines have been detected in the Irish Sea as tensions rise between Moscow and Britain over the Kremlin's aggression in Syria and Eastern Europe.

A tiny Russian "exclave" in Europe is now a dangerous flashpoint, as tensions between Russia and the West intensify.

Britain has announced plans to send hundreds more troops close to Russia border in largest deployment since the Cold War

Russia has released the first image of its new nuclear missile, a weapon so powerful that it could wipe out nearly all of the UK or France.

Trump is giving Putin dangerous encouragement and the rest of the world can only hope it will end with the election.

Vladimir Putin's armed fleet heads for Dover as Moscow moves ships from the Mediterranean in 'Operation Sea Fist'.

The official 2017 Vladimir Putin calendar has gone on sale in Russian shops.

Russia is deploying "two of the most powerful warships in the world" - and sending a message to the Americans. What is Putin up to?

Controversial President Rodrigo Duterte has already told Barack Obama to "go to hell". Now he has struck another blow against the US.

Reports of Vladimir Putin telling officials to fly relatives living abroad back to Russia because of an impending war are being quashed.

US Secretary of State John Kerry called for the Syrian and Russian governments to face a war-crimes investigation over attacks on civilians in Syria.

More than 40 million Russians are taking part in a three-day drill that, if it becomes reality, could spell disaster for all of us.

A spokesperson said "harassment and surveillance" of US diplomats in Moscow has increased significantly.

Russia-US relations fell to a new post-Cold War low as the Obama Administration abandoned efforts to cooperate with Russia on ending the Syrian civil war.

Dutch prosecutors revealed the missile that shot down MH17 was transported into Ukraine from Russia and fired from separatist-controlled territory.

Tapped phone conversations filled with swearing and codenames were among the most critical pieces of evidence into MH17. Here's what really went on.

A football lout claims :"Football hooligans are ordinary people who love violence. And we are the most honest part of society."

On a clear afternoon last Monday a line of humanitarian aid trucks eased to a stop in front of a cluster of warehouses packed with aid supplies 24km outside the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Footage from a polling booth at the weekend's Russian parliamentary elections appears to show an official stuffing a ballot box.

The US-Russia deal to bring peace to Syria seemed near collapse yesterday as two countries publicly accused each other of double-dealing and atrocities.

The Russian President will cheer the Syrian agreement as a victory over US Secretary of State John Kerry.

These astonishing photos of a thrill-seeker's sky-high catwalk show have turned her into a social media sensation.

New Zealand will hand over the responsibility of carrying out polls on the Secretary General job to Russia in September to ensure there is no perception of a conflict of interest.

Helen Clark's bid for the UN Secretary General job has been raised by Foreign Minister Murray McCully during a meeting with his Russian counterpart in Moscow.

The Russian vice-consul in Rio de Janeiro shot dead an armed mugger who had tried to hold him up in his car.

A new kind of army, of private cyberdefense contractors, is stepping up and gaining power in the wake of hacks such as the one on the Democratic National Committee.