Moscow said air defence systems were firing near Grozny in Chechnya on Wednesday, but stopped short of saying the passenger ...

Two U.S. military officials told NBC News that they had intelligence indicating that Russians may have misidentified the ...

Russia's leader apologises for the downing of an Azerbaijani plane in Russian airspace - without directly taking blame.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin apologized to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev over the “tragic” Azerbaijan Airlines ...

The Kremlin said Putin had "offered his apologies that the tragic incident had occurred in Russia's airspace." ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Russia’s air defense systems were active when an Azerbaijan Airlines flight attempted to land in Grozny, Chechnya on Wednesday.

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday also released a statement apologising for the “tragic incident” which led to 38 people ...

President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev. The leaders of the two ...

President of Russia Vladimir Putin 'apologized for the fact that the tragic incident occurred in Russian airspace' but didn't ...