- 15:32 22/05/2013
Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has declared a hunger strike after a regional court denied her access to her parole appeal hearing.
- 14:40 22/05/2013
Russia’s contestant in this month’s Eurovision song contest said on Wednesday there was no need for an investigation into “lost” Azerbaijani votes for her performance.1
- 14:17 22/05/2013
Russia's Bion-M1 biological research satellite, which recently carried rodents, microorganisms and plants on a month-long space flight, successfully accomplished its mission, an official said on Wednesday, despite the death of most of the animals on board.
- 12:23 22/05/2013
Police in south Russia have arrested nine people suspected of laundering large sums of money in illegal financial operations, Russia’s Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
- 11:35 22/05/2013
Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on the country’s defense industry on Wednesday to provide the military with state-of-the-art weapons superior to their Western analogs.
- 10:39 22/05/2013
Russia has been asked to increase the level of staff it commits to UN peacekeeping missions around the world, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said after meeting with the UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs in New York.
- 09:29 22/05/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 08:31 22/05/2013
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel held a meeting with Russian National Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev on Tuesday discussing bilateral and international issues, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said.
- 08:00 22/05/2013
In this quiet Pennsylvania town in the heart of Amish country, where life moves at a pace from bygone times, Russia’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team has set its sights squarely on the future, looking to move beyond a past marred by tragedy.
- 08:00 22/05/2013
Nearly two years after losing almost all its players and coaches in a plane crash, Russian hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl sent 18 young players across the Atlantic Ocean to a small Pennsylvania town to be put through a grueling five-week training regimen by American fitness coach Steve Saunders.
- 04:27 22/05/2013
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he was not offended by web-users calling him 'Dimon,' a diminutive version of his name.
- 03:40 22/05/2013
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said he saw no reasons to declare populist Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky persona non grata in the central Asian state following his remarks on Kyrgyzstan.
- 02:44 22/05/2013
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he was not ready to part with any of the current ministers, but dismissals are possible in connection with the recently introduced law banning officials from keeping their money in foreign banks.
- 01:15 22/05/2013
A policeman was killed and a soldier wounded after unknown assailants opened fire on them in Buinaksk, a city in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, a spokesman for the republic’s Interior Ministry said.
- 23:56 21/05/2013
Nestled on the Baltic Sea and often described as one of the most Western cities in Russia, St. Petersburg has a new place of honor as one of the top travel destinations in the world, according to the 2013 Travelers’ Choice Destinations awards released Tuesday by the popular online travel website TripAdvisor.
- 23:49 21/05/2013
A thriller starring the legendary French actor Gerard Depardieu and the British actress Elizabeth Hurley, being filmed in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, will be shown to the public at the end of the year, the movie’s producer Arnaud Frilley said Tuesday.
- 22:29 21/05/2013
Russia has made a mistake by branding some of its NGOs as "foreign agents," Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said Tuesday following a meeting to discuss the issue with State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin.6
- 20:57 21/05/2013
A soldier has been nicknamed “the Russian Terminator,” after a video was recently posted on the internet showing a bullet being removed from his forehead with pliers.
- 19:38 21/05/2013
The visa requirement for travel between the European Union (EU) and Russia should be scrapped as soon as possible, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said Tuesday.1
