Russia's counter-terrorism agency says it killed two militants it believes were planning a terrorist act in Moscow and detained a third.

The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko has called for the inquest into her late husband's death to be abandoned and for a public inquiry to be held in its place.

Shaun Walker meets the Communist party faithful as the Soviet leader goes back on display

The Swede replaced Charles van Commenee last October

Shaun Walker on the scarcely believable tale of the wig-wearing diplomat expelled from Moscow

Victim had been drinking with two men, who allegedly started beating him when he revealed he was gay

The man behind Russia’s tightly controlled political system, has resigned – but did he jump or was he pushed?

Alexander Lebedev, the Russian businessman whose family owns The Independent, appeared in a Moscow courtroom today to hear charges read against him that could land him in prison for up to five years.

A fire at a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow killed 38 people early this morning, many of them patients who burned to death while under heavy sedation.

The opposition leader Alexei Navalny gave a grand-standing speech in his opening remarks to the provincial court trying him on embezzlement charges. Mr Navalny, an anti-corruption blogger who led street protests against President Vladimir Putin, dismissed the case as “political revenge”.

As US investigators attempt to piece together the motivations and allegiances that led Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to bomb the Boston Marathon, attention is turning to the six-month stint that Tamerlan spent in southern Russia in early 2012. He stayed with his father in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, the mountainous republic in southern Russia that borders the family’s ancestral homeland, Chechnya.

Gold medal winners from 'Super Saturday' will all be in action