A Moscow court on Wednesday ordered three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot to remain in jail another month while they await trial on hooliganism charges.
President Vladimir Putin has apparently pulled out of the global sustainable-development summit in Rio de Janeiro that starts Thursday, dealing a further blow to the credibility of the summit.
Russian film studios, unlike their East European counterparts, have largely stayed out of sight of Hollywood directors seeking to save on production.
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Three aviation officials were charged Wednesday in connection with a RusAir plane crash in bad weather last year in Petrozavodsk that killed 47 people and injured five others.
The Moscow Arbitration Court declined Wednesday to hear VimpelCom's appeal of interim measures restricting the Russian company's activities while a lawsuit filed by the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service against Telenor, a shareholder in the telecoms operator's Dutch parent company, is settled.
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Ahead of this weekend's forum, the director of the Russian division of Italian confectionary Ferrero speaks about the boost to job creation that could be provided by greater state investment in infrastructure.
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Rescuers on Wednesday found the likely crash site of a hijacked An-2 biplane that went missing more than a week ago with 13 revelers on board.
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A street sign that shows three main characters from Mikhail Bulgakov's classic novel "The Master and Margarita" above the warning, "Don't Talk to Strangers," will not be taken down, City Hall said Wednesday.