- 12:20 07/04/2013
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has pardoned jailed ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, according to a decree posted on the president’s website on Sunday.
- 21:47 05/04/2013
Russia has begun setting up a naval task force in the Mediterranean, sending several warships from the Pacific Fleet to the region, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
- 10:28 05/04/2013
Ukraine has turned down an extradition request from Tajikistan for its former Prime Minister Abdumalik Abdullojonov, and released him from detention, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 22:07 02/04/2013
Ukrainian opposition lawmakers have blocked the speaker’s rostrum and presidium of the country’s parliament after the pro-presidential majority refused to set up the date for mayor and city council elections in the capital Kiev.
- 15:05 02/04/2013
Ukrainian journalist Ankhar Kochneva, who was held captive by militants in Syria for five months before she escaped last month, has returned to the war-torn Middle Eastern nation, she told RIA Novosti by phone on Tuesday.
- 15:49 01/04/2013
A Moscow court ruled on Monday to keep Sergei Udaltsov, a leftist activist charged with plotting to overthrow President Vladimir Putin, under home arrest until at least August.
- 10:10 01/04/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 11:40 31/03/2013
Troops of Russia’s Southern Military District have returned to their base after taking part in surprise Black Sea exercises ordered by President Vladimir Putin, the military district’s press office said on Sunday.
- 21:06 29/03/2013
US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul’s official residence in Moscow is Spaso House, a Neoclassical Revival mansion that served as the setting for a ball hosted by the devil in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, “Master and Margarita.” An apt home, some might say, for a man who has been demonized by state-run media and pro-Kremlin officials since his arrival in the Russian capital a little over a year ago.1
- 09:44 29/03/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 21:39 25/03/2013
Ukraine deployed an army of workers and vehicles on Monday to clear snow and assist thousands of people trapped after being stunned by some of the worst weather in living memory.
- 20:55 24/03/2013
Thousands of snow removal machines have been sent out on the streets in Moscow after an unprecedented snowstorm, which has caused a state of emergency in Ukraine’s Kiev, hit the Russian capital.
- 22:24 20/03/2013
The president of Ukraine said Wednesday that his country wants to continue cooperating on nuclear nonproliferation with the United States and build on its past achievements.
- 19:34 20/03/2013
Poland supports the introduction of a visa-free regime between European Union countries and Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Wednesday.
- 22:54 19/03/2013
Nationalist lawmakers in Ukraine’s rowdy legislature brawled Tuesday with deputies from the ruling Party of Regions in a standoff over which language should be used in parliament.1
- 18:45 19/03/2013
Russia’s naval task force in the Mediterranean will comprise 25 officers as part of its command and control system, a senior Defense Ministry official said on Tuesday.1
- 09:48 19/03/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 23:37 18/03/2013
For as long as I can remember (so basically for the last three years or so), March in Moscow has consistently sucked. Perhaps you would like me to put this in a different, more profound way - but no, it just sucked. And will probably suck for many, many years to come. No point in pretending otherwise.1
- 22:19 18/03/2013
A Ukrainian journalist who last week fled from militants in Syria that had been holding her captive for five months has returned to her home country, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.
