Russia says it was right to confront a US Air Force reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea.

President Putin denies "any element of corruption" over the Panama Papers leaks, saying his opponents are trying to destabilise Russia.

The Kremlin slams the leak of the "Panama Papers" tax documents as an attack aimed primarily at Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming that former CIA officials helped analyse the papers.

A huge leak of confidential documents has revealed how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth.

Around thirty people have been killed in clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Russian President Vladimir Putin calls for an immediate halt to fighting after clashes broke out in the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

When a helicopter pilot spotted the first crater in summer 2014, everyone was baffled. The 100-foot-wide hole appeared on the Yamal Peninsula seemingly out of nowhere, during a tense season of Russian military action in Ukraine and international sanctions.

All sixty-two people on board a flydubai Boeing 737 are killed as the plane crashes and bursts into flames while landing in Rostov-on-Don, in Southern Russia.

A roughly 2,000-square-mile block of ice just broke off in the Arctic Ocean.

Russia will continue air strikes in Syria despite the withdrawal of most of its forces, a senior official has said.

Russian forces are preparing to start leaving Syria after Monday's surprise withdrawal announcement by President Vladimir Putin.

Europe and Russia are about to launch a joint mission to the Red Planet.

A nanny accused of decapitating a young girl in her care then walking through the street brandishing the head, says "Allah ordered" the killing as she appeared at a Moscow court.

Police in the Russian capital Moscow arrests a woman on suspicion of murdering a child after she was found apparently carrying a severed head.

A landmark truce is to take effect in Syria on Saturday, the United States and Russia announced, but the "cessation of hostilities" does not include the Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front, the main jihadist factions.

Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar and Venezuela have agreed to freeze their oil output at January levels if other producers follow suit.

At least 23 civilians are killed when missiles hit three hospitals and a school in rebel-held Syrian towns today, residents say, as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensify their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says “we have slid into a new cold war”, with Nato and some countries describing Moscow as “the worst threat”.

French PM Manuel Valls urges Russia to stop bombing civilians while carrying out airstrikes in Syria - but Moscow denies harming them.

Rebel groups in Syria have told the BBC they will not stop fighting because they do not believe that Russia will end its bombing campaign in support of the government.