Russia has sharply criticised the conclusions of a UK inquiry into the 2006 poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.

The remains of a Soviet fighter-bomber plane and two crew members shot down by Germans in 1945 have been found in a river in central Poland amid extremely low water levels associated with a drought, a museum official said.

Vladimir Katriuk, the man who held the second spot on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of most wanted Nazi war criminals, has died, his lawyer said. He was 93.

The Polish foreign ministry has said that it will not allow a Russian nationalistic motorcycle group loyal to president Vladimir Putin to enter Poland, in part because Polish authorities would not be able to guarantee it security.

Protesters have marched on the Russian embassy in Kuala Lumpur, waving placards and demanding justice for the victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down over Ukraine last week.

Russia has evacuated all of its diplomats and their families from Libya a day after a mob attack on the Russian Embassy there.

Russia has evacuated dozens of its citizens from Syria as the country’s foreign minister warned that military intervention by the US and its allies would destabilise the region.

A car bombing near Syria’s ruling party headquarters in Damascus has killed 53 people, according to state media, while mortar rounds exploded near the army’s central command in the city.

At least 31 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in Damascus near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, opposition activists say.

A car bomb has exploded at a security checkpoint near the headquarters of Syria’s ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy in the capital Damascus, killing at least four people, reports say.

A large explosion has shaken central Damascus, near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy.

A six-strong senior boxing team, due to represent Ireland at a multi-nations tournament in Moscow, were left stranded yesterday morning after a mix-up with their passports.

Several dozen protesters staged a demonstration outside the Russian Embassy in Dublin yesterday to express solidarity with the members of female punk band Pussy Riot who were jailed by a Moscow court last week.

A Russian-built airliner is feared to have crashed during a demonstration flight aimed at drumming up sales.

A RUSSIAN diplomat has been expelled from Ireland after a Garda report found that the Russian intelligence service was behind the “forgery and effective theft” of Irish passports.

Six Irish passports may have been compromised by a Russian spy ring uncovered in the US earlier this year, it emerged today.

A DONEGAL man was interviewed by Garda detectives this week after it emerged his passport was used by one of the alleged Russian spies arrested in the US.

Diplomats were tonight trying to trace records of an Irish passport given to a US-based Russian spy on a debriefing mission.

Irish fans travelling to Moscow for the Champions League Final should not require a visa, the Dáil heard today.

The Russian government could make millions of pounds from a piece of land it bought from the Foreign Office, it emerged last night.

Moscow has expressed its annoyance to Tehran over an Iranian air defence exercise near a Russian-built nuclear plant, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said today.

Self-exiled tycoon and Kremlin foe Boris Berezovsky said he would be questioned in London today by Russian prosecutors conducting their own inquiry into the poisoning death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

Republic of Georgia authorities, helped by the CIA, set up a sting operation that led to the arrest of Russian who tried to sell nuclear-bomb grade uranium in a plastic bag in his jacket pocket, a government minister revealed today.

The Government should launch emergency radioactivity tests at all the sites visited by former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar, the Green Party said today.

Former Russian Premier Yegor Gaidar was being treated in a Moscow hospital today several days after falling violently ill at a conference in Ireland, his daughter said.

A Russian politician and billionaire industrialist is in hospital with severe burns today after a sports car he was driving slammed into a tree and caught fire in the south of France.

Russia today offered a €7.9m reward for information on the killers of five Russian Embassy staff killed in Iraq.

Gunmen killed 21 people, including a dozen students, after they dragged them off buses north-east of Baghdad.

A Russian Embassy official in Baghdad said today that one diplomat was killed and four diplomatic employees were abducted in the Iraqi capital.

The Russian Foreign Ministry today said it had received Slobodan Milosevic’s letter complaining of inadequate treatment and asking for help in getting permission to undergo treatment in Moscow.

Slobodan Milosevic’s body was being released to his family today after an eight-hour autopsy revealed that the former Yugoslav president died of a heart attack in his prison cell.

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post-mortem findings last night.

SLOBODAN Milosevic wrote a six-page letter the day before he was found dead, claiming that traces of a “heavy drug” had been found in his blood and that he feared being poisoned, a legal aide to the former Yugoslav president said yesterday.

Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post mortem findings tonight.

Dutch pathologists conducted a post mortem examination and toxicological tests today to determine what killed Slobodan Milosevic amid claims that the ex-Yugoslav leader feared he was being poisoned.

Slobodan Milosevic wrote a six-page letter the day before he was found dead, claiming that traces of a “heavy drug” had been found in his blood and that he feared being poisoned, a legal aide to the former Yugoslav president said today.

Russia has formally proposed to Iran that it move its uranium enrichment facilities to Russian territory, raising pressure on the Tehran regime to accept the Western-backed plan for restraining its nuclear program.

Moscow today made a formal offer to Iran to move its uranium enrichment programme to Russia.

Twelve Russian sailors held in Nigeria for nearly two years on charges of stealing crude oil are expected be handed over to their embassy today, a Russian Embassy official said.

The chief US envoy to talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme said today delegates would start work on a joint statement of principles, taking the negotiations into a “new stage”, but he said progress was slow and there was unlikely to be any agreement this weekend.

THE tribunal that will put Saddam Hussein on trial released a new video yesterday of the former dictator being questioned by magistrates about the killing of 50 Iraqis in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt in 1982.

The massacre of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet secret police n 1940 was not genocide, Russia’s top military prosecutor said today.

A bus with 26 commuters on board was hijacked as it travelled from Marathon to Athens by two armed men, believed to be Albanians, today,