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Russian hacker Efim Bushmanov has claimed that he has reverse-engineered the well-protected source code of the popular Skype software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the Internet.
Russia's Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov criticized on Friday a recent call for legalizing some illicit drugs as "a propaganda campaign promoting the use of narcotics."1
The European Commission urged Russia on Thursday to lift its ban on the import of raw vegetables from EU nations over a deadly E.coli outbreak.1
A woman in Russia's Chelyabinsk Region was sentenced on Thursday to four and a half years in prison for attempting to sell her newborn baby boy for 10,000 rubles (about $330), a local court said in a statement.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has proposed setting up a new flexible copyright scheme on the Runet, as the Russian-language part of the internet is known.
Police in Moscow have launched criminal proceedings after a reporter was attacked during a banned gay rights demonstration on Saturday.
A Russian woman has asked Russian consular and social welfare authorities to help her take her two Egyptian-born children back home, Krasnodar region family ombudswoman Galina Doroshenko said on Wednesday.
More than 300 women marked Children's Day on Wednesday by rallying in Russia's northwestern Petrozavodsk to protest against the lack of places in the city's kindergartens and demand a solution to the problem.
Prosecutors in the central Russian region of Nizhny Novgorod have rehabilitated five people who were executed after rising up against the Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918.
Russia's Consumer Protection Service in the southern Rostov Region has stepped up controls on the border with Ukraine following an outbreak of cholera in the neighboring Donetsk region, the regional CPS head said on Wednesday.
Odnoklassniki.ru, Russia's second largest social network, plans to set up a music commercial service, a source close to the company told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
The situation for journalists improved in Russia in 2010 because no journalists were killed that year and prosecutors have since gained two high-profile convictions, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a new report.
Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down in her Moscow apartment building on October 7, 2006. The investigation into the murder of Politkovskaya will be prolonged until February 2011.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued on Tuesday a decree granting a general amnesty, state television said.
Police detained on Tuesday several dozen opposition activists during unauthorized rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg in support of freedom of assembly.
Reports that the suspected killer of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been detained brought a mixed reaction on Tuesday.1
A Russian foundation has launched a hotline in the Russian Internet domain (Runet) to fight the promotion of drug use, Friendly Runet director Yevgeny Bespalov said on Tuesday.
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has invited tycoon Suleiman Kerimov to join the Right Cause party, which Prokhorov is expected to head starting in June, a spokesman for Prokhorov's Onexim investment company confirmed on Monday.