BRUSSELS (AP) - A Polish bus carrying Russian youngsters crashed through guardrails and ended up on its side under an elevated highway near the port city of Antwerp on Sunday, killing at least five people and leaving five more critically injured, an ... [Full Article]
LONDON (AP) - Russia's transition from a Kremlin-controlled economy to a free market free-for-all in the 1990s brought on a wave of contract killings as criminals, entrepreneurs and corrupt officials tried to muscle each other out of lucrative b... [Full Article]
MASNAA, Lebanon (AP) - Key Syrian ally Russia began evacuating its citizens from the country on Tuesday as the civil war gathered momentum in the capital Damascus with intense fighting around the international airport. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Government forces and rebels battled in the suburbs of Damascus and elsewhere in Syria on Tuesday as the first group of Russian citizens prepared to be evacuated from the country to escape nearly two years of conflict. (Source: Associat... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia is sending two planes to Lebanon to evacuate Russians from Syria, the government said Monday, a move that suggests Moscow is growing doubtful that Syrian President Bashar Assad can cling to power in the face of an armed uprising.... [Full Article]
ROME (AP) - Six Russians were killed and two others were injured when their snowmobile slammed into a fence and flipped over into a ditch during a night run down an Italian ski slope. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
OSLO (Reuters) - Russian dissidents and religious leaders working for Muslim-Christian reconciliation are among the favorites to win the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize when the result is announced on Friday. The year has brought few notable peace breakthroug... [Full Article]
Former NBA standout Andrei Kirilenko scored 35 points to power Russia over Britain 95-75 on Sunday in a Group B round-robin opener at the Olympic men's basketball tournament. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Nikolai Leonov was walking through this Moscow suburb with his 2-year-old daughter when the toddler bent down and picked up a bloodied syringe from the grass. "I snatched it away from her a second before she could hurt herself," Leonov said... [Full Article]