- 18:31 15/01/2013
Russia will allocate a $500 million loan to Bangladesh to finance the first phases of a joint project to build the country’s first nuclear power plant (NPP), Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
- 17:04 15/01/2013
Russian President Vladmir Putin has set up a state commission to deliver the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
- 15:37 15/01/2013
The Russian Audit Chamber will inspect the pricing policy of Russia’s largest air carrier Aeroflot, the head of the financial control body Sergei Stepashin said on Tuesday.
- 15:08 15/01/2013
The first Western helicopter to be built under license in Russia successfully performed its maiden flight last month, its maker HeliVert announced on Tuesday.
- 14:13 15/01/2013
Russia will launch a robotic lunar station in 2015, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday.
- 13:03 15/01/2013
The Russian FA is importing techniques to combat match-fixing from England and Italy by including police on the investigation committee, the head of the country's Audit Chamber said Tuesday.
- 12:23 15/01/2013
Russia’s former top representative at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Yelena Kotova, has been charged with seeking a bribe of $1.4 million, Russia’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 21:04 14/01/2013
Muscovite Alexei Kabanov has confessed to strangling his wife, Irina, and dismembering her body in an attempt to hide his crime.
- 18:16 14/01/2013
Local lawmakers on Monday rejected a petition urging them to lift Russia’s controversial ban on adoptions by American citizens, which was signed into law late last year.
- 17:51 14/01/2013
Russia will launch on Tuesday three Cosmos series military-purpose satellites, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
- 16:43 14/01/2013
A defender of a Moscow Region forest was beaten and hospitalized in the capital – an attack that his supporters said coincided with a crackdown on their efforts to save the local woodland from getting axed.
- 15:14 14/01/2013
Russia’s Justice Ministry denied registration to the country’s Pirate Party over gripes with its allegedly misleading title, the party said on Monday.
- 14:37 14/01/2013
A man in the Russian republic of Mari El will face trial for attempted murder after allegedly hiring two friends to kill his heavy-drinking mother – who survived the brutal attack, Russia’s Investigative Committee said Monday.
- 14:26 14/01/2013
Moscow hopes that Ukraine’s rotating presidency of the OSCE will facilitate Europe's unification, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 21:28 13/01/2013
Moscow believes that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's exit cannot be a precondition for a deal to resolve the country’s crisis, Russia’s foreign minister said on Sunday.2
- 19:58 13/01/2013
Thousands of people braved freezing temperatures in Moscow on Sunday afternoon to protest a government ban on adoptions of Russian children by US nationals, as well as to call for the dissolution of parliament, which initiated the legislation.12
- 19:19 13/01/2013
The Kremlin shares concerns about Russian orphans voiced by protesters at a march in downtown Moscow on Sunday, but warns against calls to “disband” the Russian parliament.1
- 17:14 13/01/2013
Russian opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev suffered a heart attack in November fearing trial in Siberia, his lawyer has said.
- 14:20 13/01/2013
Thousands of Russian activists gathered in the center of Moscow on Sunday to hold a protest march against a law banning US nationals from adopting Russian children.7
