Nato backs a new cyber defence centre in Estonia, which last year blamed Russia for targeting its internet structure.

EU diplomats say Lithuania has dropped its veto threat, paving the way for EU strategic partnership talks with Russia.

EU foreign ministers visit Georgia amid tensions with Russia over the separatist Abkhazia region.

Ukraine bars Moscow's mayor from visiting, after he claimed the port of Sevastopol was part of Russia.

Russia's Soviet-style Victory Day parade demonstrates a new sense of national pride, Richard Galpin reports.

Sailors from the Russian and US navies square off in a sandwich-making contest for Victory Day.

Russia parade in pictures

Tanks and missile launchers are featured in Moscow's Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era.

Vladimir Putin promises to rein in inflation and boost social spending in his new job as Russia's prime minister.

Russia orders the expulsion of two military attaches from the American embassy in Moscow, US officials say.

The BBC's James Rodgers says President Medvedev cannot afford to ignore Chechnya's continuing woes.

Vladimir Putin is expected to be approved as the new Russian PM, after he stood down as president.

Images from the Kremlin, where Dmitry Medvedev has been sworn in as Russia's new president.

Dmitry Medvedev pledges to extend Russia's civil and economic freedoms after being sworn in as president.

Russia and the US sign a key deal on civilian nuclear power which is set to expand bilateral trade.

BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall discusses the legacy of two presidents approaching the end of eight years in power, George W Bush and Vladimir Putin.

Russia will start restricting foreign investment in key sectors of the economy such as energy and aviation.

BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary.

Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia says it has downed two unmanned spy planes - a claim denied by Tbilisi.

Azerbaijan allows a Russian nuclear cargo to cross its territory into Iran after holding it up for a month.

Extra Russian troops are being deployed in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, Russia says.

Nato says Russia's troop build-up in Georgia's two breakaway regions risks escalating tension in the area.

BBC regional analyst Steven Eke looks at the background to tense relations between Russia and Georgia.

DNA tests confirm that bones found in Russia belong to the two missing children of the last Tsar, shot dead by the Bolsheviks.

Russia warns it will retaliate if Georgia uses force against its breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Georgia is preparing to invade its breakaway region of Abkhazia, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The BBC's Paul Reynolds looks at the admission by neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan that history did not end and that it has resumed in a nasty fashion

Lithuania wants the EU to delay partnership talks with Russia because of energy security worries.

The US, Britain, France and Germany say they are "highly concerned" by Russian moves which Georgia sees as a threat to its sovereignty.

Georgia urges the international community to stand up to Russia ahead of an emergency UN meeting.