DUSHANBE - Russia and Tajikistan on Tuesday began joint military exercises near the Tajik-Afghan border to prepare to ward off potential Taliban attacks. More than 10,000 troops, mostly Tajik reservists, will take part in the first such drills in the area by the ex-Soviet allies, Tajikistan´s ...

WASHINGTON - A 29-year-old Russian woman has been arrested for conspiring to influence US politics by cultivating ties with political groups including the National Rifle Association, the powerful gun rights lobby. Mariia Butina, whose name is sometimes spelled Maria, was arrested in Washington on ...

HELSINKI: Russia's President Vladimir Putin tried to lighten the mood at a post-summit news conference with US President Donald Trump on Monday by giving him a World Cup football which was made in Pakistan. Trump had congratulated Putin on Russia's successful hosting of the competition, which ...

*MOSCOW- * Russia was the target of almost 25 million cyber-attacks during the World Cup, President Vladimir Putin said, though he did not indicate who may have been behind the attacks. "During the period of the World Cup, almost 25 million cyber-attacks and other criminal acts on the ...

MOSCOW - While major air forces the world over are looking at acquiring 5th generation fighters, the Russians are already testing systems which will be used for the futuristic 6th generation jets. A few days ago, a Russian Su-57 fighter was used to test onboard systems for the future 6th-generation ...

FINLAND - U.S. President Donald Trump sat down with Vladimir Putin for a long-awaited summit on Monday saying he wanted good relations with Russia, after blaming Washington's own past "foolishness and stupidity" for the countries' hostile ties. "I've been saying, and I'm sure you've heard over ...

MOSCOW - FIFA World Cup Final 2018 has become the highest scoring final ever played in the history of football. France has clinched its second World Cup title with a 4-2 win over Croatia in a dramatic final in Moscow featuring a series of firsts and a pitch invasion orchestrated by Russian protest ...

MOSCOW - S-400 Triumf is one of the world’s most advanced air defence systems that can simultaneously track numerous incoming objects — all kinds of aircraft, missiles and UAVs — in a radius of a few hundred kilometres and launch appropriate missiles to neutralise them. It is now bang in ...

Mueller though wants to know if a series of campaign contacts with Russian. WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump’s summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin caps decades of efforts by the New York property tycoon to establish top-level relations in Moscow. Back in Washington, however, ...

MOSCOW: As Donald Trump prepared to travel to Moscow five years ago for the Miss Universe pageant, he wondered whether he would run into Vladimir Putin. "If so," he wrote on Twitter, "will he become my new best friend?" Today, as the Apprentice-host-turned-president gears up to meet with his ex-KGB ...