Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov sparred in the ring with the republic’s top sports official after inspecting local sports facilities and expressing dissatisfaction with the official’s work. “Why does the ministry have such [...]

Hunters have killed 583 wolves in the Sakha republic since the beginning of the year, more than twice the number killed in the same period last year, regional agriculture officials said Tuesday. Agriculture officials told RIA-Novosti that [...]

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 [...]

Police are offering a 3 million ruble ($95,000) reward for information that could lead to the capture of the gunman who killed six people in a shooting spree in downtown Belgorod on Monday. The suspected shooter, 32-year-old Sergei Pomazun, [...]

A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant for British investor William Browder, who has led a global campaign to seek justice over the prison death of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. The court warrant, issued Monday by the [...]

A 1985 Melodiya release of a Modern Talking album. Forty-nine years ago today, on April 23, 1964, the Soviet record company Melodiya was established. The company, which held a monopoly on music recordings until 1986, offered [...]

Kommersant 1. Andrei Kolesnikov article headlined “Margin shot” says that a government meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin in Sochi has decided to combat Russia’s economic problems by reducing [...]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, pictured, has been charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. BOSTON — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical brand [...]

Russia’s Otkritie Financial Corp, which is in the process of buying banking group Nomos, has dropped plans to merge Nomos with its Otkritie Bank and a third party in favor of a looser tie up. Alexei Karakhan, Otkritie Financial Corp’s [...]

Moscow’s chief architect has announced the initiation of an international contest for the best landscape and architectural design of a park in the Zaryadye District on site of the demolished Rossiya Hotel, Interfax reported. The park [...]

While the overall demand for high-end housing in Moscow decreased in the first quarter of 2013, the upper segment of the market demonstrated considerable growth, reflecting an inflow of Western top executives who prefer luxury housing, [...]

The Kremlin may respond to the “shale gas revolution” by splitting Gazprom into two companies in charge of gas production and transportation, a news report said Monday. As Gazprom’s clout on global markets is decreasing [...]

KABUL — The Taliban have captured all the people, including a Russian pilot, aboard a helicopter that crashed in a volatile region of Afghanistan’s east, a spokesman for the insurgency said Monday. The helicopter, owned by air [...]

BRASILIA — OGX Petroleo e Gas, the flagship of Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista’s troubled EBX group, is negotiating the sale of a 40 percent stake to Russia’s LUKoil in a rescue plan that also involves Malaysia’s [...]

While the snow might be gone, the weather will be cooler than normal this week in Moscow, and there’s a chance that frost might form at night, weather forecasters said Monday. The temperature will average 2 degrees Celsius lower [...]

Alexander Lebedev has accused a General Electric subsidiary of fraud and is demanding compensation, the businessman told the weekly publication Profile. “From 2006 to 2008, General Electric Capital Aviation Services, through its [...]

Amazon, the world’s biggest online store, will start operating in Russia with the sale of digital content like videos, books and Kindle e-readers, a news report said. Forbes’ Russian edition, which first reported about Amazon’s [...]

Most Russians have a reserved attitude toward Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, and do not support renaming St. Petersburg to Leningrad in his honor, a public opinion poll showed Monday. The poll, conducted [...]

Stop by Tverskaya Ulitsa on Tuesday evening if you would like to catch a glimpse of the tanks being used in this year’s Victory Day parade on Red Square. But don’t plan on arriving in you car. The street and other parts [...]

Two passenger jets have been targeted by lasers pointed by unknown people on the ground as they approached or left Moscow airports. No one was injured in the Sunday night incidents, Interfax reported Monday. The pilots of an Aeroflot Airbus [...]

Opposition leaders filed a request with Moscow City Hall on Monday to stage an anti-Kremlin rally on May 6 on Bolotnaya Ploshchad, the same date and location where a demonstration last year ended in violence. The organizers want to march [...]

A massive clean-up operation started Monday on the Moscow River — the butt of jokes for its filth — and workers will now regularly make an effort to clear it of rubbish and residual fuel. The clean-up will cover more than 30 [...]

The Sports Ministry has drafted legislation that would give the FIFA exclusive rights to advertise and sell alcoholic beverages in and near stadiums during the 2018 football World Cup. The ministry hopes to include the amendment to a [...]

As many as 137 families who bought apartments in an apartment building at 9 Kadetskaya Ulitsa in Krasnodar lost their property when the building was demolished last week, AIF reported. Last November, a Krasnodar court ruled that the 3-story [...]

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin hopes that Moscow will boast streets free of traffic jams and its own Disneyland-style amusement park — by 2020. Sobyanin, speaking in an interview published Monday in Rossiiskaya Gazeta, said that huge infrastructure [...]

Russians want to ask President Vladimir Putin on his televised call-in show this week about whether they will face U.S. visa restrictions after the Boston bombing attacks and why he is cracking down on his critics. Those are among the 28 [...]

A YouTube video from the crime seen shows a covered body located some distance from the Okhota hunting store. An unknown attacker went on a shooting spree in downtown Belgorod on Monday, killing at least five people, including a 14-year-old [...]

The Constitutional Court has ruled that Russian voters should be allowed to appeal election results directly, overruling earlier judgments that permitted only political parties and candidates to dispute official vote counts in the courts. The court’s [...]

Police standing guard outside Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is hospitalized. BOSTON — Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has regained consciousness and responded in writing to questions [...]

If government plans come to fruition, congestion in Moscow will be significantly reduced, thanks to a network of modern transportation hubs to be built using funds supplied primarily by local and foreign private investors. [...]