McDonald's burgers and shakes could become the latest victims of worsening ties between Moscow and Washington after a Russian consumer watchdog agency accused the U.S. chain of sanitary violations.

As tensions rise, Russia's food safety watchdog slapped a blanket ban on all imports of dairy and dairy-containing products from Ukraine beginning Monday.

As Ukrainian troops gained ground in the country's east in early July, separatist leader, Aleksander Borodai, a Russian national, left for Moscow for political consultations.

If President Vladimir Putin is facing the biggest international backlash of his 14-year reign, it is because he has — in the eyes of the West — violated the one great taboo of the post-9/11 world: supporting terrorism. The problem is, viewed from a Russian perspective, Putin has done nothing of the sort.

The Russian navy said during Sunday’s Navy Day celebrations that a French-made Mistral-class carrier will become the flagship of its budding Mediterranean Fleet, while Western leaders continue to pressure Paris into withholding the delivery of the warships.

For the first time, a gay pride event went off without a violent hitch in Russia, Radio Liberty reported Sunday.

The Communist Party of Ukraine will cease to exist on Thursday, the speaker of Ukraine's parliament announced.

Reindeer herders in Russia's Far North have discovered yet another mysterious giant hole about 30 kilometers away from a similar one found days earlier.

Amid international tension over the conflict in Ukraine, voices in the West are clamoring for Russia to lose the right to host the 2018 World Cup. While this is realistically highly unlikely, a boycott of the tournament by European nations would certainly be welcome news for some of the other teams, who might have a better chance of bringing home the elusive trophy.

President Vladimir Putin signed a flurry of new legislation on Tuesday, including: