Russia & CIS

Pilot ejected, no injuries reported on the ground.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier: "This is an independent decision of the German Bundestag."

Negotiations are expected to resume on June 8.

The Bundestag’s recognition of the ‘Armenian genocide’ further isolates Turkey, ANCA official.

AK Party, CHP, MHP made a joint declaration condemning and rejecting the German resolution.

Spokesman says brief stay in hospital is expected.

Armenian President dismissed several high-ranking officers after April escalations on the frontline in Karabakh.

President Aliyev signed an order establishing the Committee.

France has delivered the first of a series of Mistral warships to Egypt, the Egyptian news website Al Ahram reported Thursday.

A senior Kremlin official asked me the meaning of the word "de-politicization." I told him it is when the news bulletins cover whatever we cook up here in the Kremlin, and the public sets about discussing it.В 

Greece has moved to offer Russians long-term Schengen visas to increase an already considerable tourist flow from Russia, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.

Oh Twitter. You've been wronged. When you moved to suspend several accounts satirizing Russia's ruling elite, the public outcry that followed saw you under attack for hampering free speech.

Russia's Presidential Human Rights Council has cancelled a planned meeting with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov over his position on human rights activist Igor Kalyapin, the RBC news website reported Thursday.

Russian citizens have named the United States, Ukraine and Turkey as the country's greatest enemies, according to a poll by the independent Levada Center, the Vedomosti newspaper reported Thursday.

Twitter has unblocked a popular spoof account of Russian President Vladimir Putin after a storm of condemnation that the company was censoring free speech.

It is hard to imagine Rüdiger von Fritsch, a distinguished ambassador in his seventh decade, ever having been a hitchhiker. But that is exactly where his path to diplomacy started.

So, is Russia pivoting to China or not? This question took on ideological importance when the Kremlin stepped up its propaganda, touting China as an alternative to Moscow's partnership with Europe.

Eight months after the dramatic falling out with Russia, the Turkish elite is sending mixed messages.

If there was any hope of a breakthrough in Russian-Ukrainian relations following the release of Nadiya Savchenko, it was dashed on the Ukrainian pilot's first day back at work.

German newspaper Süddeutschen Zeitung has linked Moscow's deputy Mayor Maxim Liksutov to the Magnitsky case in an ongoing investigation, the Meduza news website reported Wednesday.