The respected head of a Moscow children`s seamanship club has reportedly pled guilty to more than 10 acts of sexual assault on his charges, shocking the kids` parents, some of whom still refuse to believe it.
American soldiers who return from Iraq are often left to adjust to life after service all by themselves, struggling to make sense of and justify the deaths caused by the war. The US government is often accused of failing to help them.
A lawyer in Chicago is being lambasted with accusations of sexism after he filed a motion with the court complaining about the distracting bust size of a ‘large breasted woman` sitting at the opposing council’s table in court.
The Moscow City Court ruled on Tuesday to reduce by one year the prison sentences for former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner ex-Menatep head Platon Lebedev.
Yandex has raised $1.3 billion, with company valuation of $8 billion, with a Nasdaq IPO valuing its shares at $25.
"Where`s the money? Where`s the gun? Where`s the drugs?"
With the 2011 surge in energy prices underlining the sector`s importance to the Russian economy Business RT spoke with Aton Chief strategist, Peter Westin about factors at play for the Russian energy sector, and it’s influence on the Russian economy.
President Dmitry Medvedev has voiced concern over the situation with higher education in Russia, which churns out two million university graduates a year, but very few of them are truly professional.
The Russian 2010 summer heatwave and drought provided an advertisement like no other for air conditioning vendors and producers, and that is seeing greater interest in air conditioning this year before the summer warms up.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin does not see anything wrong or politically incorrect in posing shirtless, nor in hunting and fishing - unless it damages nature.
Users of Google`s Android based smartphones are being warned to avoid using public WiFi networks due to a data security issue which could allow hackers access to immense personal data.
One of the films gaining the biggest buzz on the French Riviera has been described broadly as "the story of a man gaining power and losing his wife."
Competitive eaters of the world, take note: those looking to oust Don Gorske from his recent record-breaking feat have an awful lot to ketchup on.
It is a first-person shooter just like the famous "Call of Duty", but "Glorious Mission" is quite different - the enemy is American troops.
The first private Museum of Jewish History has opened in Moscow. The museum`s collection covers more than 200 years of the history of Jewish life in Russia from the late 18th century through to the late-Soviet period.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has suggested that a new innovation agency should be launched at the end of May and a contest be held to choose its head.
Deputies of the legislative assembly of the second largest city in Russia on Wednesday voted to recall Federation Council speaker Sergey Mironov from the upper house.
Polish authorities have removed a plaque with an inscription in Russian honoring killed Red Army soldiers from a memorial stone set up on the 90th anniversary of Poland`s independence in Stshalkovo.
Moscow police have detained a man whom they believe killed, butchered and partially ate one of his acquaintances. Severed parts of the victim`s body have been discovered in various parts of the city since early May.
The man once labeled in Russia as a fraudster has allegedly come up with a way to curb inflation in Belarus - to open branches of his new financial scheme.
It has been revealed that social networking giant Facebook hired a PR firm to wage a secret war on Google to smear their privacy policies in an attempt to gain an upper hand.
A misreported April Fool`s joke sparked panic on the internet over a comet discovered by a Russian astronomer. Conspiracy theorists believe that the Elenin comet is an alien spaceship and demand that the scientist discloses data hushed up by NASA.
A new scheme in Texas public schools has cameras tracking students to monitor what and when they eat.
After the Fukushima crisis, there have been calls to test nuclear power plants against earthquakes and floods. Recent disasters across the world have raised safety concerns and Russian inventors could soon be cashing-in on those fears.
A jail in the US state of South Carolina has banned all book and reading materials except for the Christian Bible. Critics argue there is simply no good reason to ban books.