The $100 billion overseas order book of Russia's nuclear power plant builder Rosatom -- bigger than all its Western competitors combined -- makes it look like the giant in its field.

• June 26, 2016

Russia is likely to deploy advanced nuclear-capable missiles in its European exclave of Kaliningrad by 2019, casting the move as a reply to a U.S.-backed missile shield, and may one day put them in Crimea too, sources close to its military predict.

• June 23, 2016

Britons voted on whether to quit the European Union in a bitterly-contested referendum on Thursday that polarised the nation and could change the face of Europe

• June 23, 2016

Sterling climbed to a 2016 high and global stocks rallied as investors bet Britons were likely to vote to remain in the European Union.
Oil prices rose, shrugging off a smaller-than-expected draw in U.S. crude stockpiles, and the safe-haven yen fell against the dollar as the last pre-vote opinion polls showed the "Remain" camp holding a small lead.

• June 23, 2016

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, monitoring a fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, has called on Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists to do more to investigate violations of the agreement.

• June 22, 2016

Russia must boost its combat readiness in response to NATO's "aggressive actions" near Russia's borders, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

• June 22, 2016

The European Union's Brussels envoys agreed on Tuesday to extend until the end of January the energy, financial and defense sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, but formal approval is still pending, diplomatic sources said.

• June 22, 2016

Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday's referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union was likely to be very close but he also predicted a "remain dividend" in investments if Britons voted to stay in the 28-nation bloc.

• June 21, 2016