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MOSCOW - The organizers of a series of opposition actions entitled 'For Fair Elections' plan a number of mass events in Moscow within the next month, including a rally on March 5 following the outcome of the presidential election scheduled for March 4, Sergei Udaltsov, a coordinator of the opposition group Left Front, told Interfax on Friday, Feb. 10 3 days ago at 11:02 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia's U.N. ambassador denied reports that he threatened Qatar could be "wiped off the map" during contentious negotiations over a Syrian peace resolution last week. Feb 7 at 21:44 | Associated Press |
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ST.PETERSBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the police chief of St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, on Friday after he had complained about an internal inquiry into the death of a teenager alleged to have been beaten by police. 3 days ago at 21:37 | Reuters |
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MOSCOW, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received a drink fit for dinosaurs on Friday when he was presented with a sample of ancient water from a sub-glacial Antarctic lake pierced by Russian scientists. 3 days ago at 18:58 | Reuters |
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Russia's Foreign Ministry is asking the government to suspend adoptions of Russian children by U.S. nationals following an "incessant string of crimes" allegedly committed by American adoptive parents. 2 days ago at 16:15 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW (AP) — After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years — a pristine body of water that may hold life from the distant past and clues to the search for life on other planets. Feb 8 at 19:36 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW - The existing political system in Russia should be changed, says former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Feb 8 at 13:59 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russia's president has fired the police chief of St. Petersburg, where a 15-year-old boy died after being beaten while in police custody. 3 days ago at 20:48 | Associated Press |
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Novosibirsk - The Russian Armed Forces should be supplied with the necessary amount of weaponry and military hardware to guarantee national security, including strategic security, Vice Premier Dmitry Rogozin believes. Feb 9 at 09:29 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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MOSCOW (AP) —A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action. 3 days ago at 19:21 | Associated Press |
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CAIRO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Arab League chief said on Monday that Russia and China had lost diplomatic credit in the Arab world by vetoing a U.N. resolution on Syria and may have sent a message to Damascus that it had a free hand to crack down on protests. Feb 6 at 21:23 | Reuters |
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Moscow, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A 56-year-old Russian woman from the Urals set herself on fire in front of the main government building in Moscow,just two weeks after Prime Minister Vladimir Putinvisited her region for a rally supporting his presidential bid. Yesterday at 16:52 | Reuters |
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was unable to meet with the PACE pre-electoral delegation due to his busy schedule, but PACE is still hoping to meet with Putin before the election day. 2 days ago at 13:24 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Voting has begun in Turkmenistan's presidential election in a race designed to cement the incumbent's hold on power in the authoritarian Central Asian nation. Yesterday at 12:00 | Associated Press |
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's human rights commissioner says Belarus has blocked his plans to visit the country and meet with a jailed human rights activist. Feb 8 at 18:01 | Associated Press |