Russian Security Council chief Sergei Shoigu got here in Beijing on Friday for top-level conferences with Chinese leadership, Russian news companies reported. During the one-day visit, [Shoigu] is set up to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the state-run TASS news company said.Shoigu's see comes days after Xi

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Friday it thwarted a Ukrainian-ordered plot to assassinate Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov, a senior Russian Orthodox Church bishop with close ties to President Vladimir Putin.

Shevkunov, often described in media reports as "Putin's confessor," has known the Russian leader personally since the 1990s and

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Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, best known for his Cold War-era defeat to American Bobby Fischer, has died at 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced late Thursday.

"The tenth world champion Boris Spassky has died at 88," the federation said in a statement, calling his passing a "great loss for the country." It did not specify the date

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The purchasing director of Russia’s nationalized pasta manufacturer Makfa was arrested on suspicion of bribery, Russian news agencies reported Thursday, citing anonymous law enforcement sources.

Vladlen Parshin was detained in the Chelyabinsk region, according to Interfax, TASS and RIA Novosti. No further details about the case were disclosed,

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The Kremlin on Thursday ruled out relinquishing control of Ukrainian regions it claims to have annexed, setting a major red line as Russian and U.S. officials met in Istanbul for talks aimed at normalizing relations.

"The territories that have become subjects of the Russian Federation, which are inscribed in our country's constitution, are an

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Numerous people were jailed in cities throughout Russia as they commemorated the late opposition figure Boris Nemtsov on Thursday, the 10th anniversary of his assassination near the Kremlin.In Moscow, a heavy cops existence and document checks were reported at the makeshift memorial on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, where Nemtsov was gunned

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