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.

On NZ Herald Focus, Donald Trump has appealed to Russia to release emails that Hillary Clinton did not hand over.

We are going to see Russians winning medals and an Olympic movement in disgrace.

Russia and her allies have started a fightback to stay in the Rio Olympics after the sensational disclosures about a state-directed doping programme.

Russia's doping programme saw drug dissolved in Chivas whisky for men and vermouth for women, to give them an undetected edge over other athletes.

Vladimir Putin has purged all the officers in his Baltic Sea fleet citing corruption

Isis fighters shot down a Russian helicopter above Syria, killing both pilots on board.

Over 500 passengers were left stranded for seven hours after one woman's impromptu decision to change her relationship status.

It's one thing to be attracted to bad boys and alpha males. But it's another thing entirely to fall in love with one of the world's most notorious serial killers.

Russian "AIDS experts" say the best form of protection is to "be in a heterosexual family where both partners are loyal to each other".

Vladimir Putin may have unleashed his worst enemy when Nadia Savchenko was freed from Russian prison.

An Aucklander adopted from a Russian orphanage 19 years ago has been reunited with her birth sister - live on Russian television.

It's hard not to feel like James Bond stepping off the hovercraft on the crunchy ice of frozen solid Lake Baikal in Siberia.

The former Soviet city of Pripyat, the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, has became an unlikely drawcard for international tourists

Diplomats tell us what Kiwis need to know about their homelands.

Reports by two consortiums of investigative journalists purport to have exposed the dealings and offshore accounts of some of Putin's closest associates.

Safely tucked away from prying eyes, Bunker 42 was Joseph Stalin's expansive nuclear facility built by the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Wendi Deng, 47, is rumoured to be seeing Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the Kremlin has denied any relationship between the two.

The former wife of the media mogul is reportedly in a "serious" relationship with the world leader.

US President Barack Obama welcomes world leaders to Washington today for a summit on nuclear security.

The excruciating moment a man miraculously hauls himself and his dog out of a frozen lake after they fell through the ice, has been caught on camera.