Forcibly conscripting soldiers to fight for an occupying power is a war crime. DW spoke to human rights activists and ...

Russian authorities have removed the Taliban from their list of terrorist organizations. The Kremlin can now sign agreements ...

In a closed session on April 17, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation "temporarily" lifted Russia's ban on the Taliban. The request came from the office of the prosecutor general. This motion ...

Pettit, along with Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, will bid farewell to their orbital home of more than seven months when they undock from the International Space Station (ISS ...

For more than 200 days, Pettit, as well as Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner – both of Russia's Roscosmos space agency – have lived and worked at the space station while conducting scientific ...

The city of superlatives is a symphony of triumphs – and now classical music is in the Dubai spotlight once more. The 14th annual edition of the InClassica International Music Festival runs from ...

A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by gluing a ...

As earlier reported by Interior Ministry spokesperson Irina Volk, Smirnov was apprehended together with his former first deputy, Alexey Dedov. Before this, three heads of private firms who got ...

The Russian authorities have arrested Alexey Smirnov, the former head of the country’s embattled Kursk region. Smirnov stands accused of embezzling at least one billion rubles ($12.2 million) from ...