President Vladimir Putin, ignoring criticism he is using his post for campaign purposes, told Russians on Thursday to vote for his United Russia party in Sunday`s parliamentary election.
Russia on Tuesday strongly defended the mass detention of anti-Kremlin demonstrators in the latest salvo of a war of words with the West before parliamentary elections.
Atomstroyexport, Russia`s nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, has begun talks on building a nuclear power plant in Belarus, the company`s first vice president said on Monday.
Russia should explain the weekend beating and detention of people protesting against President Vladimir Putin, including former chess champion and opposition leader Garry Kasparov, France`s foreign minister said on Monday.
Some 500 workers have resumed a strike at a Ford car plant near St. Petersburg, bringing industrial action to a seventh day, the chairman of the plant`s trade union said on Monday.
The widow of murdered former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko vowed to uncover the truth about alleged Kremlin links to her husband`s poisoning Friday, the first anniversary of his death in London.
Beijing, preparing to host the 2008 Olympics, has ordered hotels to provide condoms in all bedrooms in a bid to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS after cases of infection soared 54 percent in the first 10 months of this year.
The director of Russia`s Tretyakov Gallery said Wednesday he is suing the culture minister over his remarks attacking an exhibit that featured a photo of two policemen kissing.
Members of an apocalyptic Russian sect in the country`s central Penza Region remain underground as efforts continue to persuade them to come to the surface, a local MP said.
The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother`s wife and fathered a child by her.
Braving a new frontier of oil exploration around Russia`s remote Sakhalin Island means conquering ice-locked seas, frequent earthquakes and muddy swamps fed by melting snow in the rapid springtime thaw.
Workers at a Ford car manufacturing factory near St. Petersburg, Russia, have launched an indefinite strike, the chairman of the plant`s trade union said on Tuesday.
Civil servants, from teachers to air traffic controllers, began a mass walkout Tuesday, the seventh day of a transport strike that has wreaked havoc on French rails. But the government said it would not cede on planned reforms.
November 19 will forever be etched in Russian minds as the day in 1942 when Soviet forces began their brutal counter-offensive against German troops in Stalingrad.
Estonia is planning a beauty contest with a difference to mark its 90th birthday, according to a report Monday: the winner will be the world`s prettiest language.
A court in the Rostov Region, in southern Russia, has found a couple guilty of cruelty after they chained their disabled adopted son to a radiator, the region`s prosecutors said Monday.
Police and clergy are having no luck in negotiating with 30 members of a doomsday cult who are threatening to kill themselves in an underground bunker in Russia`s Penza region. A small air pipe is the only way of communicating with the group, which includes four children.
Russia`s Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and two businessmen have been arrested on suspicion of attempted large-scale fraud, a source in the Prosecutor`s Office said Saturday.
North and South Korea agreed Friday to launch rail service across their heavily armed border for the first time in more than half a century, a move symbolizing the growing reconciliation between the two sides.
Southeast Asian nations plan to sign a charter in Singapore next week aiming for lofty goals in areas such as free trade and human rights even as the 40-year-old group wrestles with how to handle the divisive issue of Myanmar.
Russia said the cargo unit of German airline Lufthansa can fly through its airspace until Feb. 29 if the firm commits to moving its regional hub to a Russian airport, a Transport Ministry official said on Tuesday.
A man convicted of killing an air traffic controller linked to a 2002 mid-air collision was given a hero`s welcome as "a real human" by a pro-Kremlin group when he returned to Russia from a Swiss jail on Tuesday.
Moscow has asked Christie`s auction house to withdraw from sale 41 Russian army documents, it believes could have been stolen from military archives, Russia`s culture watchdog said on Monday.
Russian veterinary specialists will fly to Poland on Monday to inspect meat factories, in a bid to overcome the concerns behind Moscow`s two-year embargo on Polish meat.
A Moscow court extended on Friday custody for the main suspect in the murder of a top Russian banking regulator until January 11, 2008.