Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova said on her web site Friday that she would "have to miss the Olympics" in Beijing with a shoulder injury.
A regional court is to start considering the parole application of jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky after it received Friday documents detailing his prison record, a court spokesman said.
Members of Russia's ruling United Russia party on Saturday elected Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as its leader at a party congress.
Sweden’s Loreen has won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest with 372 points with her hit Euphoria, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Sunday.
An independent candidate at the Egyptian presidential elections, Hamdeen Sabbahi of the nationalist Dignity party, who came the third in the polls’ first round on Wednesday and Thursday, said he would appeal the results because of violations.
Twelve Russians, the crew members of a An-30 turboprop that crash landed on May 23 at an airport in the east of Prague, and Russian Defense Ministry inspectors returned to Russia on Saturday, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry said.