The Russian president claimed that sports authorities have permitted the use of the movement as a political tool Russian President Vladimir Putin told an athletics forum on Thursday that the Olympic movement is now a far cry from the ideals of its modern reinventors, with politics trumping sportsmanship and athletes suffering discrimination due to their…

RFE/RL’s Alsu Kurmasheva – a dual US/Russian national – was arrested in Kazan Russian law enforcement has detained Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor from the US state-run media outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), over failing to register as a foreign agent and gathering sensitive military data, two sources reported on Thursday.

The path to the diplomatic milestone was paved by last month’s summit between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, the foreign minister said Relations between Russia and North Korea have now soared to new heights, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said during his landmark two-day trip to Pyongyang.