Red Wings Airlines, which lost its operating license in February after a plane crash, has been re-certified to perform maintenance work but is still not allowed to fly, former owner Alexander Lebedev said. Lebedev announced the development [...]

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has denied that Moscow and Minsk are negotiating the possible establishment of a Russian air base in Belarus, days after Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu alarmed several NATO member states by announcing [...]

Despite an uptick in protest sentiment, most Russians will stay away from street rallies during the May Day holidays, according to a new poll. At least 70 percent of respondents said they were not planning to participate in annual street [...]

With the end of ice hockey championships, Sochi 2014 organizer Dmitry Chernyshenko has declared that the dress rehearsal for the Olympics is a success. Test events held in the framework of the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games [...]

Russia and the U.S. aim to reach an agreement on unified cybersafety rules during a visit to Moscow by Washington officials. White House cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel and coordinator for cyber issues Christopher Painter were [...]

In perhaps the surest sign that spring has finally arrived, Moscow turned on its more than 500 fountains on Monday. Graffiti was removed from the fountains as part of a clean-up operation to get them ready in time for the May holidays, [...]

The creation of a new database will make it easier for the state to fine drivers who escape punishment because their cars have foreign license plates, a news report said Monday. Cameras currently used by Russian authorities are unable [...]

A Far East family not only got a new playground from President Vladimir Putin but will also receive a bus courtesy of the regional governor. Governor Vladimir Miklushevsky promised the bus during a visit Monday to the home of the Kuzmenko [...]

Police have rescued the 20-year-old kidnapped son of a Moscow businessman after a gunfight that left one of the suspected abductors dead. Police did not identify the son or his father, whom they described as the owner of a restaurant [...]

A screen grab of Alex and Anna Nikolayev with their son, Sammy. Children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov has accused U.S. authorities of ”severe neglect” for removing 5-month-old Sammy Nikolayev from his Russian [...]

A screen grab from the Rossia-24 documentary “Formula of Power” showing President Obama meeting a Russian journalist at the White House. The Kremlin presented President Barack Obama with a DVD documentary about his life [...]

Kommersant 1. Remata Yambayeva et al. report headlined “They compete for nickel medal in Sochi” says the main shareholders of the mining and metals company Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin and Oleg Deripaska, have [...]

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, walking near her home in Makhachkala last week. BOSTON — In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased [...]

Anastasia Volochkova, who police say was not home at the time of the robbery. Armed robbers stole two safes and beat up a servant at a house in northern Moscow linked to former Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Volochkova. Police [...]

President Vladimir Putin and Anatoly Chubais, General Director of Rusnano The government’s Audit Chamber on Friday accused state-owned Rusnano of multiple infractions in a blow to the high-tech corporation’s chief, [...]

The Brigadmil in action. Eighty-one years ago today, on April 29, 1932, the Soviet authorities issued a decree creating the Brigadmil, a public organization to assist the police in maintaining public order. The Brigadmil, [...]

Akhmed Bilalov, the former vice president of Russia’s Olympic Committee, has said that he is being treated in Germany for mercury poisoning and intends to appeal to law enforcement authorities upon his return to Russia. Bilalov [...]

Four prosecution witnesses in the embezzlement trial against opposition leader Alexei Navalny told the court Friday that they had not been pressured into cooperating with a company co-headed by Navalny, a day after another key witness [...]

Russian police and security agents detained 140 people at a mosque in Moscow on Friday on suspicion of involvement with Islamic extremism. A statement from the Federal Security Service reported by Russian news agencies said that among [...]

WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities have long cast a wary eye on counterterrorism intelligence from Russia, Obama administration officials say, raising questions about whether a ”trust deficit” clouded efforts to determine if Boston [...]

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva speaking at a news conference in Makhachkala while her husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, listens. Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely [...]

Indebted Russian steel group Mechel has backed off from selling up to 25 percent of its mining division due to market conditions, sources with knowledge of the matter said. The New York-listed coal and steel group, one of Russia’s [...]

TOKYO — Japan and Russia expect to clinch up to 20 deals, launch an investment fund and reopen talks on a territorial row that has kept them from signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II when Japan’s prime minister [...]

Russia’s second-largest bank VTB is pushing ahead with a 103 billion ruble ($3.3 billion) share sale in the coming weeks to bolster its capital, even as its shares languish after a series of strategic missteps. VTB’s supervisory [...]

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova A Russian court on Friday rejected a plea for early release from prison by a member of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, whose provocative songs and prosecution have made them a symbol of the country’s [...]

Transparency in business procedures, cheaper domestic travel and road signs in English would bring more tourists and foreign investors to Russia, Italian Ambassador Antonio Zanardi Landi said on Friday. While large investments become successful [...]

A government commission agreed to establish a state corporation to turn locals away from drug smuggling by developing economic projects in Central Asia, said Viktor Ivanov, head of the Federal Drug Control Service. Ivanov, a member [...]

Police detaining a participant in Saturday’s protest on Red Square. Thirty demonstrators, including a woman on crutches who was over 70 years old, were detained Saturday at an unauthorized protest in support of suspects in the [...]

Vladimir Pekhtin, the State Duma’s former ethics chief, said Friday that he would file a defamation lawsuit against Alexei Navalny over a blog post in which the opposition leader alleged that Pekhtin failed to declare co-ownership [...]

President Vladimir Putin and Anatoly Chubais, General Director of Rusnano The government’s Audit Chamber on Friday accused state-owned Rusnano of multiple infractions in a blow to the high-tech corporation’s chief, [...]