Activists to hold rally as opposition candidates are excluded from city legislature vote

While United Russia party has fallen from popularity, barriers keep rivals from election

Head of the Duma’s international affairs committee says Poland could pay a terrible price if its territory is used to attack Russia

Intense speculation abounds of a successor and how to manage an orderly transition

Russia’s leader offers concessions but warns the plans are needed to protect the economy

Washington has announced punitive measures in response to Sergei Skripal poisoning

Warmer ties between communist allies develop as US trade war heats up

Two people hospitalised following exposure to ‘unknown substance’ in Salisbury

Satire an effort ‘to breed bad blood into social harmony reached in Russian society’ – official

Ex-taoiseach Bertie Ahern participated in delegation but not in meetings about Crimea

Senator Suleiman Kerimov questioned on alleged laundering of funds from tax fraud

More than 90% of city's local council seats are held by a pro-Kremlin party

Russia’s opposition leader gathers admirers at home but he may be no friend of the west

‘Pilgrimage’ and 'Punisher' star Jon Bernthal on how he got his life back on track, and shooting in Ireland, 'the most beautiful place in Earth'

US president uses speech in Poland to appeal for Western unity in the face of ‘dire threats’

Frankie goes to Hollywood while Oireachtas’ golfers made to feel special in Killarney

Legislation reduces battery of relative to civil offence if victim suffered to serious harm

Criminal liability for battery on family members which does not cause bodily harm eliminated

Decriminalisation of some offences a licence for violent behaviour, opponents claim

St Isaac’s Cathedral in St Petersburg had been a secular museum since fall of USSR