St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport has returned to its normal schedule after police said an anonymous bomb threat was a hoax. An unknown caller had telephoned the airport around 6 a.m. Friday to say that a bomb had been planted at the [...]

Emergency workers are searching for two crew members missing after their tug collided with a bridge over St. Petersburg’s Neva River and sank. A representative for the Emergency Situations Ministry told RIA-Novosti that rescuers had [...]

Russia’s top investigator, Alexander Bastrykin, has been tasked with investigating the savage beating of three small children in a Khabarovsk region orphanage. The two nurses suspected of committing the sickening acts of torture [...]

Authorities have evacuated St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport and suspended all flights after an anonymous bomb threat, Interfax reported. An unknown caller telephoned the airport around 6 a.m. Friday to say that a bomb had been planted [...]

President Vladimir Putin has called the Boston Marathon explosions a ”disgusting” crime. Putin initially offered assistance in investigating Monday’s twin bombings in Boston that killed three people and wounded [...]

The Skolkovo Foundation, a brainchild of then-President Dmitry Medvedev, was established in 2012 to create a scientific and technological center in Moscow for the development and commercialization of advanced technologies. The downtown [...]

A Belarussian MiG-29 fighter jet like the one that chased after the flock of birds. A Belarussian fighter jet has violated Lithuanian airspace during an investigation into a possible security threat that turned out to be a flock [...]

Ben Cardin WASHINGTON — The U.S. senator who championed a law penalizing Russia for alleged human rights abuses said he expected other countries to pass similar statutes and that more Russians may be added to Washington’s [...]

Kommersant 1. Vladislav Novy article headlined “Arkady Dvorkovich deals with postal collapse” says that Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has demanded that the Russian Post should ensure regular international [...]

Investigators have accused a top manager at the government’s flagship Skolkovo Foundation of making $750,000 in improper payments to a State Duma deputy with close links to the street protest movement, according to a statement posted [...]

Forty-three years ago today, on April 19, 1970, the first VAZ-2101 rolled of the assembly line. Better known as a Lada outside of the former Soviet Union, the VAZ-2101 was formed as a collaboration between Fiat and the Soviet [...]

The volatile republic of Dagestan became the first Russian region to cancel gubernatorial elections on Thursday, when its United Russia-controlled legislative assembly voted overwhelmingly to scrap a popular vote scheduled for the fall. In Dagestan’s [...]

A day after opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s landmark embezzlement trial kicked off in Kirov, investigators slapped the Kremlin foe with yet another criminal charge — his fifth — accusing him and his brother of defrauding [...]

Venture capital investments in Russian projects more than doubled year on year to $910.6 million in 2012, Vedomosti reported Thursday, citing a research by Russian Venture Company (RVC) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). PwC representative [...]

Rosneft president Igor Sechin made the Time Magazine list of the world’s 100 most influential people, Prime reported Thursday. The list is set to be published in Friday’s edition of Time. It is compiled based on the activism, [...]

Government inspections of businesses cost the Russian economy 1.5 percent of gross domestic product annually, Vedomosti reported Thursday, citing a study carried out by scientists of the Higher School of Economics. According to the [...]

Former Colorado Governor Bill Owens has been appointed as chairman of the Credit Bank of Moscow’s supervisory board, the bank said in a statement Wednesday. Owens, a Republican, served as the governor of Colorado from 1999 to 2007. [...]

The Kremlin announced Thursday that President Vladimir Putin’s televised annual call-in show would be held on April 25, a statement published on the Kremlin’s website said. Those who want to ask Putin a question may either [...]

Two Aeroflot jets collided with birds in the past 24 hours, but no one was injured. The pilots of an Airbus A-330 radioed air traffic controllers shortly after taking off from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on a flight to London to say [...]

GENEVA — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev painted a dim picture of the world’s environmental progress on Thursday, two decades after he and a former Swiss lawmaker founded Green Cross International. Shortly before the Soviet [...]

Russia’s biggest home electronics retailer M.Video has asked the country’s anti-monopoly regulator for permission to acquire its closest competitor Eldorado, Kommersant reported Thursday. The newspaper quoted a source familiar [...]

The government imposed a ban on all new building in Sochi to fight the illegal construction of apartments and hotels in the city preparing to hold the 2014 Winter Olympics. The governor of the Krasnodar region, which includes Sochi, [...]

The Prosecutor General’s Office will publish information on NGOs’ funding once the checks into the organizations are completed, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “The checks into NGOs that [...]

Many of the Russian cities hosting the 2018 World Cup will have trouble finding the money to build soccer stadiums and improve transit links and other infrastructure, the Standard Poor’s ratings agency has warned. Seven of the [...]

Finnish police have opened a criminal investigation to find out who was responsible for adding President Vladimir Putin to a blacklist of wanted people. Ten people are suspected of being involved. Putin’s name was added to the [...]

The downtown office of the Skolkovo Foundation was searched Thursday as part of an ongoing corruption scandal involving two former executives whom the Investigative Committee accused of using a fraudulent tender to steal 23.8 million [...]

President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to attend his first public sporting event in Russia since he was jeered by spectators at a boxing match in 2011. Putin promised to go to the opening of the world junior hockey championship in Sochi [...]

Personal memories mixed with hot discussions about the prospects of the global economy Thursday as high-profile visitors like former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. statesman Colin Powell gathered at an investment conference in Moscow [...]

A group of young Olympics volunteers talking in an assembly hall during a training session at Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University. Image 1 of 3 St. Petersburg native Tatyana Taramzhenina, [...]

If he could, Najman would take a year off to tour Russia’s vast territory. Image 1 of 2 Lubomir Najman is suffering from a lack of criticism. He has been at the helm of the Russian division of Czech [...]