In the space of just nine months in 1917 Russia underwent two revolutions, changing the country's destiny forever. In February the Russian monarchy collapsed. In October, squeezing out the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev - the last Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday - had a "huge impact on the course of history", Russia's President Vladimir Putin says. He had understood reforms were necessary ...

Extraordinary because this is the symbol of the very forces Russia has been trying to destroy for the best part of the last decade. And yet here it is, fluttering barely a kilometre from the Kremlin.

Here are the basics you need to know. The controversy centres on allegations that Russia was offering money to the Taliban for killing US troops last year, and that the White House was informed ...