- 23:45 17/04/2013
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, on Wednesday adopted in the first reading a bill toughening punishment for shooting in public places.
- 22:45 17/04/2013
Russian state-controlled and private companies have not sustained any losses due to the financial crisis in Cyprus, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
- 22:34 17/04/2013
The last in a series of three frigates that Russia is building for India at the Yantar shipyard in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad has completed sea trials, a shipyard spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 22:09 17/04/2013
The head of Russia’s Communist Party on Wednesday lambasted the government's current social and economic policies, saying they are detrimental to the country’s economy and that a new cabinet is required to lead Russia out of a crisis.2
- 19:51 17/04/2013
The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, on Wednesday approved a government-submitted law on “administrative arrests,” which requires jail administrators, officials and medics to treat convicts respectfully.
- 18:49 17/04/2013
Russia’s Defense Ministry's Future Research Fund for promoting promising military research and development projects has begun awarding its first prizes, the head of the ministry’s information and analysis center said on Wednesday.
- 12:31 16/04/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Russia's assistance on Tuesday in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three on Monday and left more than 140 injured.1
- 10:41 16/04/2013
Moscow will heighten security for this summer's world athletics championships following the deadly Boston Marathon blasts, a sports official told R-Sport on Tuesday.
- 13:59 15/04/2013
Russian steel and coking coal producer Mechel posted a $1.114 billion US GAAP net loss for October-December 2012, down from a $54.911 million net profit in the third quarter of last year, the company said on Monday.
- 18:23 14/04/2013
A bus carrying Russian youngsters crashed near Antwerp in Belgium on Sunday, killing at least five people, Russia’s Federal Tourism Agency spokeswoman Irina Shchegolkova said.
- 13:24 14/04/2013
Fernando Alonso won his first Formula One Grand Prix of the season in China on Sunday with a superior pit strategy and straight-line speed.
- 01:04 14/04/2013
All protestors detained during Saturday’s unsanctioned rallies in Moscow were released on the same day, a spokesman for the Moscow police department said.
- 21:03 13/04/2013
Police in Moscow detained dozens of people on Saturday as some 200 nationalists gathered in the center of the city, a police spokesman said.
- 11:00 13/04/2013
The great voices of traditional folk choruses and lively dances were demonstrated in Moscow by Georgia’s “Rustavi” ensemble.
- 15:34 11/04/2013
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will not attend the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher due to health reasons, a representative of the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow said on Thursday.
- 15:06 11/04/2013
The list of suspects in the controversial investigation into last year’s riots at an anti-Kremlin rally in Moscow is much longer than previously announced, an opposition website said on Thursday.
- 14:45 11/04/2013
About 20,000 mercenaries fighting in Syria are financed by the proceeds of Afghan drug trafficking, Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service director Viktor Ivanov said on Thursday.
- 14:35 11/04/2013
Investigators have opened a criminal case into abuse of power against four police officers accused of issuing driver’s licenses for cash in Moscow.
- 13:57 11/04/2013
Russian aluminum giant RusAl and Israeli auto components firm Omen High Pressure Die Casting (Omen) have signed a memorandum to create a joint venture in Russia to produce aluminum vehicle parts, RusAl said on Thursday.
