The State Duma has passed a bill in a key second reading that would ease the procedure for children of mixed marriages who were born abroad and live there to obtain Russian citizenship. The legislation is aimed at protecting the rights [...]

Children’s ombudsman Pavel Astakhov has flown to Spain and brought back to Russia two young children who had been placed in state care there after being removed from their parents for suspected neglect. “The children who were [...]

Kommersant 1. Yury Barsukov and Kirill Melnikov article headlined “Shelf editor” says that a state program to develop shelf hydrocarbons may be wound up in Russia by the proposal of Deputy Prime Minister Arkady [...]

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, left, greeting Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Minsk on Tuesday. The military plans to deploy fighter jets in Belarus this year and eventually establish an air base in the [...]

Katherine Russell, widow of bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, leaving the law office of DeLuca and Weizenbaum with her mother, Judith, on Tuesday. PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — Katherine Russell has tried to stay out of sight in the [...]

Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of the bombing suspects, says Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert known only to the family as Misha. “Somehow, he just took his brain,” Tsarni said. WASHINGTON — [...]

Sergei Pomazun Police have detained a former convict on suspicion of killing six people in a shooting spree in downtown Belgorod this week. Sergei Pomazun, 32, was detained Tuesday night as he tried to flee Belgorod on a freight [...]

“Stepan Razin on the Volga” (1918) by Boris Kustodiev; State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. 342 years ago today, on April 24, 1671, the legendary Don Cossack leader of the Peasants’ War, Stepan Razin, was [...]

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered a study to determine whether the government should reinstate the program of subsidized car loans, according to the Cabinet’s website. The order is part of a slate of instructions that [...]

Rosneft said on Tuesday it may seek an alliance with ExxonMobil or other partners in Iraq and double its Russian gas market share by 2020, boosting its credentials as the world’s largest listed crude producer. Rosneft’s chief [...]

Russia needs to build a favorable environment for the protection of intellectual property to make content creation profitable for its owners, Google Russia’s Communication Director Marina Zhunich said Tuesday. Speaking at a seminar [...]

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, whose term expires this fall, intends to stay in office without direct elections, the leader told Gazeta.ru on the eve of a parliamentary vote on the issue. “I work day and night without [...]

KABUL — The Taliban may free a group of hostages that includes Turks and a Russian captured when their helicopter made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area of eastern Afghanistan as early as Tuesday night, a provincial [...]

AMSTERDAM — A Dutch court sentenced a diplomat to 12 years in prison Tuesday for delivering confidential NATO and European Union documents to Russian agents. The case, one of the worst spying affairs in the Netherlands in memory, [...]

While research companies are busy with compiling university rankings and Russian parliamentarians with looking for a guilty party responsible for the low scores, technology companies on the ground have come up with a way to educate their [...]

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Tuesday that investment into the city’s economy reached the pre-crisis level, citing commercial real estate as an example. Twice as much is being invested in Moscow’s [...]

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A public inquiry has vindicated the protesters at an authorized anti-Kremlin rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad last May and accused police and unidentified men of creating chaos that triggered violent clashes. The inquiry, sponsored by the [...]

A Public Chamber report targeting corruption in Russia’s defense industry was labeled “too harsh” by defense executives, but they admitted that the sector lacked transparency. The report painted a grim picture inside [...]

Blogger and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny will not be able to receive the minutes of Rosneft board meetings related to the state-run oil giant’s 20-year supply contract with China that was concluded in 2009, after the Supreme [...]

The Subaru WRX’s sculpted exterior and roaring engine give it the performance and looks to match its price. Editor’s note: Wheels is a new section featuring car reviews. There is a fundamental difference between men [...]

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim group is considering buying the debt of aluminum giant RusAl to increase its influence over strategy, or may sell out completely, Onexim’s chief executive was quoted as saying. Onexim, [...]

President Vladimir Putin has said he expects a list of proposals for spurring the economy to be ready by the middle of next month. The list must contain the often conflicting proposals that Cabinet ministers, Kremlin staff and economists [...]

A family photo of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan posing with their two sisters. Fall 2006, Tamerlan Tsarnaev enrolled as a part-time accounting student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. He took classes for only three semesters — [...]

Patimat Suleimanova, the aunt of the Tsarnaev brothers, looking through a family photo album in Makhachkala. MAKHACHKALA — The elder suspect in the Boston bombings regularly attended a mosque and spent time learning to read the [...]

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The Audit Chamber has published a report explaining why Aeroflot flights are more expensive than those of competing Russian airlines, citing “ineffective spending” among the main causes of the national flag carrier’s inflated [...]

More than 700,000 Russians have submitted questions for President Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show scheduled for Thursday, the event’s call center said. Between noon Sunday and midday Tuesday, the show’s call center [...]

Roman Abramovich, billionaire owner of Chelsea soccer club and Russia’s eighth richest man, was ranked the most generous Russian philanthropist, a news report said Monday. Alisher Usmanov, the owner of Metalloinvest holding and the [...]

The Kremlin on Tuesday named First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov as the new ambassador to China. China is Russia’s biggest trade partner. Denisov, 59, is replacing Sergei Razov, who is just one year older and retiring. Denisov [...]