Ukraine's defence minister says Russia has brought 6,000 extra troops into the country recently.

Barack Obama has warned Moscow “there will be costs” if Russia intervenes militarily in crisis-torn Ukraine.

Fugitive Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych is pledging to fight on for his country’s future.

An argument in Russia over philosopher Immanuel Kant devolved into less subtle tactics when one debater shot the other.

The 11 host cities for the 2018 World Cup in Russia have been announced.

AT LEAST 20 people were killed in a crash between a bus and a petrol tanker in southern Russia.

Russia has evacuated all but two staff members and guards from its embassy in Georgia and announced it was suspending planning for further troop withdrawals from its ex-Soviet neighbour.

An explosion ripped through a base of a special Defence Ministry security force in Russia’s troubled province of Chechnya today, killing at least six people and injuring another 13.

Several people were wounded when a drunken man detonated a hand grenade during an argument, police said.

A numb Russia observed a national day of mourning for the more than 350 victims of the terrorist school seizure today, while desperate families searched for the missing in grief-stricken Beslan and criticism of the government mounted.

Russian officials are examining the wreckage of two crashed planes today in an effort to determine whether a terrorist attack caused the near-simultaneous disasters that killed all 89 people aboard.

A Russian passenger jet crashed and another apparently broke up in the air almost simultaneously after they took off from the same airport, raising fears of a double terrorist atrocity.

Voter turnout in Russia’s presidential election exceeded the 50% threshold needed to make the vote valid, Russian news agencies quoted Central Election Commission chief Alexander Veshnyakov as saying hours before polls closed today.

An explosion ripped through a commuter train in southern Russia near the war-torn region of Chechnya today, killing at least 19 people and wounding 59 others.

Emergency workers stopped the flow of water into a flooded mine in southern Russia where 13 miners have been trapped for five days, officials said, as drillers came within yards of the men’s presumed location.

Emergency workers today stopped the flow of water into a flooded mine in southern Russia where 13 miners have been trapped for five days, officials said, as drillers came within yards of the men’s presumed location.

Emergency workers today stopped the flow of water into a flooded Russian coal mine where 13 men have been trapped for five days as drillers came within yards of the men’s presumed location.

Rescue workers were tonight hoping to rescue 13 trapped Russian coal miners missing since icy water flooded into their pit four days ago.

Hope is fading in the bid to reach 13 miners that rescuers believe could still be alive three days after being trapped in a coal mine which continues to flood with water.

Rescue workers today began lifting to the surface 46 miners trapped underground in a flooded coal mine for nearly two days in southern Russia.

Rescue workers said today that all 46 miners trapped underground in a flooded mine shaft for nearly two days in southern Russia were alive. None of the miners were seriously injured.

The death toll in a suicide truck-bomb attack on a military hospital near Chechnya rose to 50 today, after rescuers pulled more bodies out of the wreckage.

A Russian colonel was jailed for 10 years today for kidnapping and murdering a Chechen woman.

The death toll from the cold winter in Moscow has reached 300, a health official said today.

A missile fired during a military training exercise may have caused a Russian airliner to explode.

The US Government has welcomed the willingness of Chechnya’s rebel leader to begin peace talks with the Russian Government, describing it as a positive step towards ending the two-year-old war.

Several suspects have been arrested over the three bombings in southern Russia that killed at least 21 people and injured more than 100 others.

At least seven civilians have been shot dead in the Chechen capital Grozny, Russian officials said today, blaming the attacks on insurgents seeking to stoke violence in the rebel republic.