- 17:19 18/04/2013
The administration of Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, said on Thursday it had cancelled a plan to exterminate stray animals in the city, after it received no bids for a tender to carry it out.
- 19:42 17/04/2013
The start of the high-profile trial of Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption crusader who led last year's mass protests against President Vladimir Putin's rule, was adjourned on Wednesday after just 40 minutes.
- 21:54 16/04/2013
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, passed on Tuesday in the first reading a bill that would significantly alter the current parliamentary electoral procedures.
- 21:36 16/04/2013
Alexei Navalny, the charismatic Russian anti-corruption crusader who led protests against President Vladimir Putin’s long rule, will stand trial this week on charges that could see the Kremlin’s most vocal foe jailed for up to 10 years.
- 21:42 10/04/2013
The lower chamber of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, passed in the first reading on Wednesday a bill introducing obligatory testing in Russian language, history and laws for labor migrants.
- 20:26 10/04/2013
Russia is one of the world’s few islands of stability, so emigration is not an option, a member of the ruling United Russia party said on Wednesday.
- 20:24 09/04/2013
A Russian deputy from the northwestern Leningrad Region’s legislative assembly, who is also the leader of the ruling United Russia party’s regional branch, has asked US President Barack Obama to put him on the so-called Magnitsky List, the party reported Tuesday.1
- 11:25 08/04/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a law making the use of obscene language by media outlets punishable by fines, the Kremlin said on Monday.
- 21:28 03/04/2013
British artist Adele Morse, the creator of the stuffed Stoned Fox that inspired thousands of Internet memes across the world, brought her most famous piece of taxidermy to Russia's second-largest city of St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
- 19:32 02/04/2013
Generous payoffs to departing executives at state-controlled companies need to be capped, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Tuesday.
- 10:40 02/04/2013
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned his ruling United Russia party on Tuesday not to repeat the mistakes made by the Soviet Union’s Communist Party.3
- 10:06 02/04/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 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.
- 20:58 27/03/2013
Opponents of the ruling United Russia party should be given an opportunity to express their views at Civil University, the party’s new educational project for members, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is also the chairman of United Russia, said on Wednesday.
- 16:31 26/03/2013
A court in Russia has overturned an earlier ruling that forced a former Russian lawmaker to pay compensation to Nazi concentration camp survivors over controversial comments he made last year.
- 15:37 26/03/2013
A Russian senator has handed in his resignation following allegations that he has Israeli citizenship and undeclared foreign real estate, a Federation Council official said on Tuesday.
- 06:34 26/03/2013
An opposition party sought to declare invalid polls in the southern Russian resort city of Anapa, overwhelmingly won by a United Russia candidate.
- 19:46 25/03/2013
A senior Russian official said Monday that Moscow will unveil its own list of alleged US rights violators should Washington proceed with moves to penalize a range of Russian officials.
- 17:35 25/03/2013
Russian lawmakers were urged on Monday to smarten up their act and avoid wearing jeans and T-shirts while working parliament.
