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So many nyets: Why the chasm between US, Russia is so hard to bridge

Many in the West see a perplexing obstructionism in Russia's stands on everything from Syria to adoption. But Russia is working from a fundamentally different understanding of the post-cold war world.

Forget feathers and beads: At Basel's carnival Fasnacht, it's all about politics

Adopted toddler's alleged death-by-abuse in Texas inflames Russia

Russians may end up with a web vetted by The League for Internet Safety

TV drama? Putin rips Sochi official on air over Olympic cost overruns

Japan says Russian jets intruded in its airspace

Sochi cha-ching: Putin defends most expensive Olympics ever (+video)

What's in a name? Russian city mulls returning to its Stalinist moniker.

Anti-drug pact latest casualty of souring US-Russia relations

Global News Blog Putin eyes trip to Antarctica, shuns elder image

Russian PM Medvedev says odds against Assad's political survival

Russia's Vladimir Putin says West is fomenting jihadi 'blowback'

Kremlin: Adoption ban needed to create 'Russia Without Orphans' (+video)

Russians march in protest of American adoption ban

Is Russia backing off its anti-US adoption ban?

Does Depardieu herald Russia as a tax haven for Europe?

Depardieu, now Russian citizen, welcomed warmly (+video)

Global News Blog Gerard Depardieu's latest drama: a Russian passport (+video)

Global News Blog Russia plans biggest war games since Soviet era

Why Gerard Depardieu became a Russisan citizen (+video)

Is Russia trying a dead whistle-blower because of a US law?

Opinion Putin shows Russian insecurity in signing ban on US adoption of orphans

Global News Blog Putin signs antiadoption law, throwing pending adoptions into confusion (+video)

Russia's proposed ban on US adoptions: What would it mean for orphans?

Russia's adoption ban exposes political rift (+video)