Protests have marked 10 years since the first prisoners were sent to America`s most controversial prison - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Barack Obama`s promise on his first day in office to close it down remains unfulfilled.
Vladimir Putin`s election campaign team has launched a website with a detailed program that includes promotion of national interests on the international arena and attractiveness of Russia for foreign tourists and businesspeople.
Women in the Uzbek Capital Tashkent will have to buy their underwear `under the counter` from now on.
France will bring its world class expertise in ski resorts to Russia`s North Caucasus, where the countries plan to jointly develop a tourism hub.
Over 400 doctors in the Indian state of Rajastan have been arrested for leaving their patients unattended. The arrests follow a strike beginning last week that has left local hospitals without medics, and at least 50 patients dead.
PM Vladimir Putin has called on Popular Front movement activists to gather public and non-governmental organizations` ideas on how to provide a maximally legitimate and transparent presidential poll.
A private museum in Russia has had some of its artifacts seized by Police after they turned out to be stolen.
Law enforcement can already beat protesters with batons, spray subversive chemicals into their eyeballs, shoot rubber bullets at a speed of around 100 yards-per-second and blast deafening sound bursts.
Both RTS and MICEX made a turnaround on Tuesday closing the trading session in the black. Analysts say positive investor sentiment will continue during the day, with political issues stalking the indices in the longer term.
Russia violated the European Convention on human rights in its handling of the 2002 hostage crisis at a Moscow theater, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday.
The results of Russia`s December 4 parliamentary election have been cancelled at 21 polling stations, according to the deputy head of the Central Election Commission, Leonid Ivlev.
A man-made virus that could wipe out half humanity has been deemed a terrorist threat. And while the scientists behind the Frankenstein-flu hoped their research would help find a cure, critics fear they have developed the ultimate bio-weapon.
While it`s no surprise that nearly 50 million Americans live below the poverty line, new statistics from the US Census show that almost 100 million others are counted as low-income citizens, making half of the population of America officially poor.
Russia`s Prosecutor General has said he sees no reason to cancel the results of the December 4 parliamentary poll, but has promised to hold an investigation into all reported violations.
One of the most painful episodes in the history of Ukraine is being used by a bank in the US for commercial gain.
Russia`s service sector accelerated in November, growing the fastest since July. Experts say this could be another indication that the downward trend between July and September is coming to an end, while the risk of another recession remains.
Already on the day of the election several reports appeared on the internet claiming that violations had taken place at elections, sometimes accompanied by video recordings of the scandals.
By having so much power and TV coverage, being the party of the president and prime minister, the United Russia party in a way united their enemies - that is how journalist Ivan Zasursky explains the lower score for the party in Sunday▓s vote.
The Supreme Court of Belarus has sentenced the two people to death for carrying out a terrorist attack in the Minsk subway that killed 15 people and wounded over 200.
A virus with the potential to kill up to half the world`s population has been made in a lab. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe, and whether the research should have been done in the first place.
Russia is so vast it can take a week to travel from East to West by train, but if Russian Railways have their way it will become much much quicker.
Yandex, Russia`s flagship search engine is breaking into the smart phone market. The company has acquired phone software developer SPB Software.
A Soyuz spacecraft has brought a cosmonaut from Russia and two astronauts from the United States and Japan safely back to Earth after spending 165 days at the International Space Station.
A court in Tajikistan has ordered to release two pilots, citizens of Russia and Estonia, who were earlier sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for smuggling and illegal border crossing.
The Russian Defense Ministry has chosen not to commission new Ground Effect Vehicles, according to a media report, scotching speculation that the legendary Caspian Sea Monster program and its smaller flying ship siblings might be revived.