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Russia and the United States are working to reach agreement on a new nuclear accord to replace the treaty which runs out next week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
Austria has begun talks with Russia in view of joining Moscow's South Stream gas pipeline project, Austrian newspapers reported on Saturday.
IATA and Russia's Ministry of Transport signed an MOU Friday to form "a strategic partnership" focusing on safety, security, technology, airport infrastructure, air navigation, ground handling and training.
Gazprom, Russia’s gas export monopoly, will supply 33.75 billion cubic meters to Ukraine next year, the Moscow-based company said in an e-mailed statement today. Ukraine’s NAK Naftogaz Ukrainy in January had committed in a 10-year contract to purchase 52 billion cubic meters next year.
President Dmitry Medvedev scolded leaders of Russia's ruling party on Saturday for "bad political habits" and ordered them to win future elections fairly.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s recovery stalled last month, as industrial output slumped and capital investment fell, Trust Investment Bank said. October data for the world’s largest energy exporter suggest “an almost complete absence of clear signs of recovery,” Vladimir Bragin , an economist at Trust in Moscow, said in an e-mailed report today.
Russia has seen an explosion in the number of Orthodox convents in the decades since the end of communist rule. There are now more than 240. Most of the renovated convents — many in remote areas — are based on their distant history and devotion to their particular icons. But for many reasons, reviving the past is far from easy.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s economy may expand 3 percent to 4 percent next year after a contraction of 8 percent in 2009, RIA Novosti reported, citing Alexei Ulyukayev, a first deputy head of the central bank.
MOSCOW, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Moscow could diversify its gas transit options to Europe with a second leg of the Yamal-Europe pipeline through Belarus, the Russian president said.
French shows off cutting-edge assault vessel to Russian navy buyers, scaring nearby countries
Russian Central Bank Lowers Refi Rate
GAINESVILLE — A delegation of physicians from Russia recently visited Northeast Georgia Medical Center to learn more about the hospital’s perinatal services provided through the Labor & Delivery, Mother Baby and Neonatal Intensive Care units.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A Moscow policeman was detained for allegedly beating to death a migrant while drunk, investigators said. The officer and two colleagues were involved in the beating of three men yesterday in Moscow, the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General’s Office said on its Web site today.
Eight Russian bomb disposal experts were killed Monday as they cleaned up after a massive fire at a navy arsenal 10 days earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in Peshawar in the northwest Friday, killing at least seven people.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — A French amphibious assault ship like the one Russia hopes to buy arr...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday strongly backed President Dmitry Medvedev's call for radical economic modernization, in an apparent bid to smother talk of differences between the leaders.
President Dmitry Medvedev promised Russian activists Monday to push new laws to support NGOs, moving to burnish his image as a liberal reformer and further distancing himself from Vladimir Putin.
Russia has pledged to clean up its police forces -- again -- after whistleblowers posted videos online complaining of corruption, low pay and poor working conditions
Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday revised their natural gas deal to lower the amount Kiev must buy next year, according to state-controlled monopoly Gazprom.
NAZRAN, Russia - The beheaded bodies of a police officer and a bailiff have been found in a volatile province in Russia's North Caucasus, officials said Tuesday. The...
