President Medvedev has signed a decree on Kudrin`s resignation after the finance minister was offered to resign. It is the first piece of fallout from the planned switch at the top of Russian politics ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
As spending cuts in the UK force a growing number of people out of work, the few vacancies that are left are mostly going to immigrants.
City officials in Los Angeles are asking the LA Fire Department to explain themselves after it`s become clear that porno films were produced with departmental fire engines serving as a substantial prop in at least two skin flicks.
A sum of some $373 million will be allocated by the state for the festivities and events marking the 250th jubilee of St. PetersburgÜs Hermitage Museum. One of RussiaÜs main museums - the State Hermitage is celebrating its anniversary in 2014.
Swiss banks will have to provide some information about their Russian clients` accounts after Bern and Moscow sign a disclosure agreement by the end of this week, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.
A two-meter long mackerel shark has been caught by fishermen not far from a children`s holiday camp in Russia`s Far East. The catch follows a number of shark attacks in the region earlier that resulted in serious injuries.
For his sake, let`s hope that Joel Tenenbaum really likes the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The three tracks of theirs he downloaded off the Internet stand to cost him around $68,000.
Drug abuse is now responsible for killing more Americans than car crashes, reveals a new report from the Los Angeles Times.
One of the key characters in Russian literature - Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, the personification of idleness and time-wasting - has inspired a one-off festival in the city of Ulyanovsk.
A Russian newspaper has reported that a man suspected of organizing the hit on journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 believed he was acting on the orders of Boris Berezovsky.
Investigators say an as yet unidentified braking force caused the doomed Yak-42 aircraft to crash during its take-off run, killing 44 people near Yaroslavl earlier this month.
Russia has brought to an end the long-running debate over securing gas supplies to the EU, bringing all its European partners together to sign the landmark agreement giving the green light to construction of the South Stream gas pipeline.
A comedy sketch parodying the dance moves of President Dmitry Medvedev has been cut from a popular TV show, Russian media said on Wednesday.
Russian boxer Nikolai Valuev, the former WBA heavyweight world champion, will travel to Western Siberia on Thursday to try to find Yeti and to "talk to him about life," a spokesman for Siberia`s Kemerovo regional administration said.
Chernobyl - the scene of the world`s worst nuclear disaster - has been attracting a growing stream of adventurers hungry for a glimpse of its post-apocalyptic landscape. Now, though, the globe`s most surreal tourist site looks set to close its doors.
The Yak-42 that crashed near Yaroslavl taking 44 lives last week was in proper mechanical condition and the latest repairs were done to all requirements, the transport prosecution has ruled. Pilot error is the most likely cause of the tragic crash.
President Barack Obama has presented his much-anticipated Jobs Act to Congress. It earmarks more than US$400 billion for putting people back to work. But critics say it is too little too late.
Lokomotiv was a team of players from many nations and the grief is being shared throughout Europe. Mass commemorations of the multinational hockey side that perished in an air crash near Yaroslavl have taken place in many European cities.
The tragedy in Yaroslavl has been a major shock for the ice hockey community, both in Russia and around the world. The KHL seems to have bitten the bullet as the league is determined to save the team in the city and resume the season.
Russia is in a state of shock after the loss of a major league hockey team in a plane crash near its home base of Yaroslavl. Several international players were included in the team`s roster, sparking mourning throughout the hockey world.
A woman in the state of New Mexico is asking cops to cover her medical bill after she was ordered by the Metro Narcotics Agency of Las Cruces, NM to undergo a costly cavity search - at her own expense.
Yoga is one of the best forms of exercise for your physical and mental health. It allows you to tune in, chill out and shape up - all at the same time! Tonight`s guide will take you through Moscow`s yoga studios.
Hope for a better country, but not as part of the United Kingdom. There is a strong sense of national identity in Wales, which has helped fuel calls for it to achieve independence, following similar calls further north in Scotland.
Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin both running as presidential candidates would promote the introduction of the classic two-party system in Russia, says Fred Weir from the Christian Science Monitor.
It took a decade, but doctors are now confirming that firefighters that responded to Ground Zero during the September 11 terrorist attacks have a higher risk of getting cancer.