- 13:11 02/03/2013
A Uzbek national has been shot dead by unknown assailants, police said on Saturday.
- 11:59 02/03/2013
Pro-Kremlin activists are to rally in central Moscow on Saturday to urge the government to extend a ban on US families adopting Russian children to all foreign nationals.
- 20:03 01/03/2013
A heavy snowstorm started in Moscow on Friday morning. According to meteorologists, it will not stop until Saturday.
- 18:22 01/03/2013
Polish police have detained a Russian national suspected of defrauding several companies of stock and property worth an estimated $12 million, the Russian Interior Ministry said on Friday.
- 17:51 01/03/2013
Russian researchers have successfully obtained ice samples from the ancient Lake Vostok in the Antarctic, but said on Friday it would take months to clarify whether life exists in the fossil water below the 3.5-kilometer (2.2 mile) high glacier.
- 16:05 01/03/2013
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill has spoken out against spending money on an electronic version of the Orthodox Encyclopedia series this week, saying it would be unprofitable.
- 15:21 01/03/2013
Just under half of the people in the Russian city hit by fragments from a falling meteorite earlier this month saw the celestial visitor streak across the early morning sky, but only a small number correctly identified it, an opinion poll indicated on Friday.
- 15:03 01/03/2013
A leading opposition blogger hounded by allegations of child abuse said he moved from Moscow to Prague, though he denied the move has anything to do with the accusations.1
- 14:36 01/03/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted a bill to parliament that would significantly revise current parliamentary electoral procedures, the Kremlin said Friday.
- 13:19 01/03/2013
Lt. Gen. Valery Ivanov, deputy chief of Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces (VKO), has been suspended from office on suspicion of causing the state an estimated $1 billion in damage by organizing an illegal dumpsite in the Moscow Region, a military legal source said on Friday.1
- 12:38 01/03/2013
Russian tennis ace Nikolai Davydenko is considering following Marat Safin into Russian politics after his sporting career comes to an end, he told R-Sport on Thursday.
- 09:41 01/03/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 21:13 28/02/2013
Prosecutors issued a warning to the director of a luxurious shopping center in downtown Moscow for decorating mall windows with mannequins that imitate having sex.
- 10:02 28/02/2013
The RIA Novosti media holding has won the 2013 Digital Communications Awards in the Best Digital Strategy category. Editor-in-Chief Svetlana Mironyuk received the award from Dzhemir Degtyarenko, Executive Director of the Russian Association of Communication and Corporate Media Directors.
- 22:27 27/02/2013
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday disavowed the claim that a number of large Georgian banks were selling their assets to Russian banks.
- 20:27 27/02/2013
Police cars escorted the Topol-M missile launchers on their way along the Moscow Ring Road last night. The convoy was headed from the Ivanovo Region to Alabino, near Moscow, for the May 9 Victory Day Parade rehearsal.
- 18:47 27/02/2013
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday criticized the performance of some defense-related agencies, as well as mistakes made by his predecessor Anatoly Serdyukov.
- 21:34 26/02/2013
A criminal case was opened on Tuesday against a suspected Moscow-based arms dealer, found to be in possession of more than 100 firearms, the Interior Ministry’s Moscow branch said.
- 14:07 26/02/2013
"This year we have a very important event, the Year of Russia in the Netherlands and the Year of the Netherlands in Russia. We have discussed the program, which is packed with over 350 different events," Lavrov said during a meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans in Moscow.
