They were business partners before their relationship soured. Now it seems that the animosity between Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich, two of Russia`s most famous and wealthy expatriates, has reached a new low at a very high-fashion spot - Hermes.
The murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative reporter for Russia’s Novaya Gazeta daily, has been solved, Russian Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika told on the sidelines of the ongoing meeting of the CIS prosecutors-general in Yerevan.
Russia will stop assigning quotas for commercial fishing from January 1, 2008, the head of the fisheries regulator said on Tuesday.
Russia and Kazakhstan could not agree a sum of damage from a Proton-M missile. A compensation sum of the damage will be determined in December 2007, head of Roskosmos (Russian Space Agency) Anatoly Perminov told reporters in Astana on Tuesday.
A court in Tbilisi released Georgian ex-defense minister Irakly Okruashvili on bail set at 10 million lari (over $6 million), the deputy prosecutor general told the press on Monday.
A crocodile with the nickname Godzilla is on the run in the Southeast of Ukraine and is proving to be a particularly elusive beast. Residents of the city of Mariupol have been desperately trying to catch the escaped reptile for almost five months.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the current rises in the prices of foods as alarming.
The first anniversary of the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has also been marked with vigils in other European centres.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have agreed on the legal framework for a customs union. The agreement is intended to ease tariffs and customs procedures to boost trade. In time, other EurAsEC members are expected to join.
Moscow residents are stunned as a gang of teenage girls deliberately sets their dogs against other animals in the south-west of the city.
Wine from Georgia`s breakaway republic of Abkhazia could enter the Russian market soon, Russia`s chief sanitary doctor said on Thursday.
Russia is witnessing positive trends in the protection of human rights, but a lot of problems remain, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg said.
Neanderthals, the stocky kin of modern humans, were far more widespread geographically than previously thought, with some trekking into southern Siberia before vanishing about 30,000 years ago, scientists said on Monday.
Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Strasbourg on Monday to take the floor at the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Russian tourists stranded in India`s Himalayas because of a heavy snowfall have been evacuated by helicopter to nearby settlements, the director of the tour operator that organized the trip for Russians said Saturday.
It is show time on the Russian political stage. In a little more than two months Russians will cast their votes at a parliamentary election and the opposition parties say they’re no longer satisfied with the roles of supporting actors.
Russia`s heaviest-ever newborn baby, born in the Altai Territory in southern Siberia in September, has serious health problems, the region`s chief pediatrician said Friday.
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov promised that a special federal law on combating corruption will be passed in the near future.
Britain tried in vain to allow Hitler`s deputy to be freed after 30 years in jail for war crimes, according to newly released secret files.
Russian rescuers have returned from China after taking part in a two-week search operation for six missing rafters. The operation was finally called off on Wednesday, with one rafter still missing. Two men were found alive and the bodies of three others have been identified.
A court in east Siberia has extended the custody of Mikhail Khodorkovsky for another three months over a new probe against the imprisoned ex-head of Yukos.
Centralwings, LOT subsidiary, may follow Germanwings owned by Lufthansa and be the first one in Poland to offer cheap flights to the east.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held talks with his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni in New York on the possible waiving of visa restrictions for Russians travelling to Israel.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree revising the structure of federal executive bodies, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday.
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has designed a Russia-shaped luxury island to be created in the Black Sea near Sochi by 2014, when the city hosts the Winter Olympics, his Moscow office said Monday.