- 15:30 01/04/2013
Brown and Himalayan black bears at the Moscow Zoo have started to wake up from their winter hibernation, the zoo’s spokeswoman said on Monday.
- 14:06 01/04/2013
Moscow on Monday dismissed Tbilisi’s condemnation of Russian military drills in the Black Sea region.
- 13:23 01/04/2013
The Russian armed forces are expecting to call up 153,200 conscripts for military service in the annual spring draft that started Monday and will last through July 15.
- 12:25 01/04/2013
Police have detained five people in Moscow suspected of illegally seizing apartments after their owners’ deaths, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
- 12:24 01/04/2013
Working for an NGO – especially a foreign-funded one – in today’s Russia is rather like being the main protagonist in a computer game like Temple Run. No matter how many hurdles you jump over and how many monsters you dodge, there is always a new danger in your path.
- 11:16 01/04/2013
Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Russia’s Chechen republic, published an opinion piece Monday suggesting that a range of current and former high-ranking Russian officials should be banned from traveling abroad.
- 10:10 01/04/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 08:47 01/04/2013
South Korea's defense ministry unveiled Monday a new plan of "active deterrence," allowing it to preemptively strike its northern neighbor if any sign of an imminent nuclear or missile attack is detected, Yonhap reported on Monday.
- 00:52 01/04/2013
Four people detained during an unsanctioned rally in Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square were released on Sunday evening, an employee with the Moscow police department’s press service said.
- 21:26 31/03/2013
Writer and radical protest leader Eduard Limonov was detained along with several other demonstrators on Sunday at a traditional Strategy-31 protest rally that has now ended in Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square.
- 16:02 31/03/2013
The Bolshoi Theater has lifted the veil on how it creates and stores scenery for its productions. Watch this RIA Novosti video for a backstage tour of Russia’s premier theater.
- 12:44 31/03/2013
Fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky was in line for a $300-million cash bonanza shortly before his death, The Sunday Times reported, citing its sources.
- 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.
- 10:26 31/03/2013
Five people were killed after a fire broke out at a private house in the central Russian town of Ryazan, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
- 09:43 31/03/2013
Rescuers have found the body of the last of the four miners who went missing following a flood at a coalmine in southwestern Siberia's Kemerovo Region, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday.
- 08:21 31/03/2013
Iraq has announced it will search more Iranian aircraft flying via its airspace to Syria, soon after US State Secretary John Kerry slammed Baghdad for taking no action in that regard, media reported Saturday.
- 02:57 31/03/2013
A car has fallen into the Yauza River in downtown Moscow, a Russian law enforcement spokesman said Sunday.
- 16:13 30/03/2013
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said in Moscow on Saturday that he believes his political career was "a success."
- 02:15 30/03/2013
Forty officials from the administration of Moscow were caught last year taking bribes, while 80 criminal cases on corruption-related charges are pending consideration, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.1
