The president on Friday expressed serious concern about Iran’s construction of a new uranium enrichment plant and said it must urgently deliver proof of its peaceful intentions, in a statement that brings Moscow closer to the West in assessing the threat.
A trial of seven Caucasus natives accused of attacking two Russian teenagers in Moscow marks an unusual twist in a city where racist violence is typically directed against minorities, and has already caused a violent backlash.
But the down week for the MICEX and RTS indexes barely put a dent in their stellar numbers for the year, during which they have outperformed all the world's major emerging markets.
The founder of Kaspersky Lab joined other illustrious figures last week on a list of appointees to the Public Chamber, in a move some say could be an attempt to upgrade the status of the largely igonored body.
Two gunmen fired at least 20 rounds at Alim-Sultan Alkhmatov, head of Dagestan's Khasavyurt district, from automatic rifles as he and two bodyguards got out a car at about 8:15 p.m. Sunday evening.
The wives of four sailors on the Arctic Sea said in an open letter Friday that they have not had any contact with their husbands since Sept. 18, a rare public statement from the families of the sailors caught up in the mystery surrounding the ship.
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A Foreign Ministry source reportedly said Monday that the international community should exercise restraint in reacting to test missile launches performed by Iran.
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The Ukrainian president said in an interview aired Sunday night on Channel 1+1 that the testimony of the three men who were at a dinner in 2004 at which he believes he was poisoned is crucial to finishing the investigation.
Reuters
President Medvedev said Friday that he would call off his decision to deploy missiles in the exclave of Kaliningrad, a vow he had made in response to the scrapped U.S. missile defense plan that would have put facilities in Eastern Europe.
Reuters
RusAl, working to restructure about $16 billion in debt, will likely need approval from both creditors and Hong Kong regulatory authorities before the IPO.
Reuters
European consumers of Russian gas, including Germany, Italy and Turkey, plan this year to take up to $2.8 billion less gas than stipulated in take-or-pay contracts with Gazprom.