Captain Igor Kshnyakin and co-pilot Alexander Kalyaninov, both Russians with Azerbaijan citizenship, and Hokuma Aliyeva, a flight attendant, were given full honours at a ceremony at the Alley of ...

Assad’s wife Asma has been effectively barred from returning to the UK. The 49-year-old – who was born in London – will be unable to return home as her passport has ...

It was a year of wars, election surprises, royal health scares and the reign of new queens. Within this maelstrom, one ...

Asma al-Assad reportedly fled to Moscow weeks before her husband to receive cancer treatment, before the Syrian regime fell ...

European Union leaders insist no decisions can be taken about the future of Ukraine without its consent or behind their backs ...

A seemingly innocuous remark made by Vladimir Putin has fueled rumors that he has two secret young sons with an Olympic ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has never officially confirmed his relationship with Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, with ...

The deposed Syrian dictator and his family fled to Moscow with a fortune of at least £1.5bn and an uncertain future amid the ...

As his enemies were advancing toward the gates of Damascus, Bashar Assad, the now-deposed butcher of Syria, must have called his buddy Vladimir Putin, asking for reinforcements. A decade ago ...

His comments may be seen as a sign that Putin could now want a political solution to the war which has left hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers dead or wounded, with similarly high ...

Vladimir Putin may yet manage to retain some stakes in a post-Assad Syria, but there’s no way around it: He just suffered a significant defeat. Russia’s ties with the Assad family go back to ...

Dwindling sales of Russia's natural gas and oil show how energy exports will not help the growing economic problems that Vladimir Putin is facing, his former deputy energy minister has told Newsweek.