Ukraine Riots

The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "as a method of warfare" in Ukraine.

In the image for November, the Russian forces are depicted attacking the US Capitol in Washington, DC.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and the West of instigating the anti-Israel riot at Dagestan's Makhachkala airport Sunday evening, an accusation that Washington has called absurd.

Russia on Monday accused Ukraine of playing a "key role" in an anti-Israel riot at an airport in the Muslim-majority region of Dagestan on Sunday.

Members of Russia's Pussy Riot band were detained after trying to enter the pitch at the World Cup final in Qatar to protest the war in Ukraine, the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the oppression of women in Iran.

Taking exception to television coverage of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the Delhi riots, the government today issued a strong advisory to news channels asking them to abide by the programme code laid down by the relevant laws.

A Russian court on Friday ordered the pre-trial detention of a Siberian news editor for alleging that 11 riot police members had refused to join Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine.

From Ukraine's central bank to a crypto-linked organisation launched by Russian punk band Pussy Riot, donations are pouring in to help the country

Protesters denouncing Iran's clerical rulers took to the streets and riot police deployed to face them on Monday, in a third day of demonstrations after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by accident.

Police have pushed demonstrators away from a square just outside the Kremlin.

Police have detained President Vladimir Putin's chief foe, who has broken the terms of his house arrest to attend a protest of several thousand just outside the Kremlin.

Several thousand people rallied near Red Square today to protest the conviction of the top Kremlin critic and his brother, in one of the boldest opposition demonstrations in Russia in years.

Russia's parliament will respect the "historic choice" to be made by Crimea when the Ukrainian region's people vote in a referendum on joining Russia later this month, the speaker of the Russian lower house said.

After losing control of Crimea, Ukraine's embattled new government is turning to the nation's oligarchs to stamp out the flames of separatism in the mainly Russian-speaking east.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded and won his parliament's approval on Saturday to invade Ukraine, where the new government warned of war, put its troops on high alert and appealed to NATO for help.

The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "as a method of warfare" in Ukraine.

In the image for November, the Russian forces are depicted attacking the US Capitol in Washington, DC.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and the West of instigating the anti-Israel riot at Dagestan's Makhachkala airport Sunday evening, an accusation that Washington has called absurd.

Russia on Monday accused Ukraine of playing a "key role" in an anti-Israel riot at an airport in the Muslim-majority region of Dagestan on Sunday.

Members of Russia's Pussy Riot band were detained after trying to enter the pitch at the World Cup final in Qatar to protest the war in Ukraine, the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the oppression of women in Iran.

Taking exception to television coverage of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the Delhi riots, the government today issued a strong advisory to news channels asking them to abide by the programme code laid down by the relevant laws.

A Russian court on Friday ordered the pre-trial detention of a Siberian news editor for alleging that 11 riot police members had refused to join Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine.

From Ukraine's central bank to a crypto-linked organisation launched by Russian punk band Pussy Riot, donations are pouring in to help the country

Protesters denouncing Iran's clerical rulers took to the streets and riot police deployed to face them on Monday, in a third day of demonstrations after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by accident.

Police have pushed demonstrators away from a square just outside the Kremlin.

Police have detained President Vladimir Putin's chief foe, who has broken the terms of his house arrest to attend a protest of several thousand just outside the Kremlin.

Several thousand people rallied near Red Square today to protest the conviction of the top Kremlin critic and his brother, in one of the boldest opposition demonstrations in Russia in years.

Russia's parliament will respect the "historic choice" to be made by Crimea when the Ukrainian region's people vote in a referendum on joining Russia later this month, the speaker of the Russian lower house said.

After losing control of Crimea, Ukraine's embattled new government is turning to the nation's oligarchs to stamp out the flames of separatism in the mainly Russian-speaking east.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded and won his parliament's approval on Saturday to invade Ukraine, where the new government warned of war, put its troops on high alert and appealed to NATO for help.