- 00:04 09/08/2013
Less than 24 hours after fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden touched down in Moscow on a flight from Hong Kong six weeks ago, the US administration launched an aggressive public campaign to pressure Russia to expel the accused leaker to face espionage charges at home.
- 23:23 08/08/2013
IAAF president Lamine Diack said Thursday that Russia’s controversial legislation banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors "has to be respected" but will have no impact on the upcoming world athletics championships in Moscow.
- 23:21 08/08/2013
A Moscow court on Thursday ordered former Rosbank CEO Vladimir Golubkov, accused of accepting a $160,000 bribe, to be transferred from house arrest to a pretrial detention center until October 16, his lawyer said.
- 22:45 08/08/2013
Russia and Georgia’s clash over South Ossetia happened five years ago, but today it feels like an age away. Much has changed since then in Georgia and Russia, as well in all the countries that were indirectly involved in the conflict.
- 22:41 08/08/2013
Actor George Takei, better known as Lt. Sulu from the “Star Trek” television and movie series, has joined the chorus of celebrities denouncing Russia’s new legislation on homosexuality and called this week for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics to be moved elsewhere.1
- 22:35 08/08/2013
Russian football team Rubin Kazan has joined compatriots Spartak Moscow in a playoff round of the Europa League, by eliminating Danish team Randers 4-1 over two legs.
- 22:11 08/08/2013
A Moscow court on Thursday extended until October 18 the pretrial detention of Bolshoi Ballet soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, accused of having organized an acid attack on the ballet's artistic director, Sergei Filin, the RAPSI legal news service reported from the courtroom.
- 20:47 08/08/2013
Female officers will serve for the first time in air defense units stationed at a Russian military base in Abkhazia, the Southern Military District's press service said Thursday.
- 20:46 08/08/2013
US federal authorities have denied an aquarium in Georgia permission to import 18 Beluga whales that were captured in Russia, according to a letter from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
- 19:55 08/08/2013
Russia has destroyed more than 30,000 metric tons of chemical warfare agents, or about 76 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile, Russia’s industry and trade minister said Thursday.
- 19:54 08/08/2013
A criminal case was opened Thursday over the suspected food poisoning of 110 workers employed by a Turkish construction firm in Moscow, Russian prosecutors said.
- 19:31 08/08/2013
Usain Bolt is yet to peak as a sprinter and is still capable of breaking his 100-meter and 200-meter world records, Jamaica's head athletics coach Michael Clarke said Thursday ahead of the world championships in Moscow.
- 19:12 08/08/2013
Germany, Bulgaria and three former Soviet republics have agreed to join efforts with Russia to build a heavy-ion collider in a Moscow suburb, according to a letter of intent, signed Thursday.
- 18:36 08/08/2013
Canada will continue its hunt for a sixth-straight gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup hockey tournament in Slovakia when its under-18 team takes on a squad from Russia in the semifinal round on Friday.
- 15:44 08/08/2013
The head of a subsidiary of state-run hydroelectric power holding company RusHydro has been detained on suspicion of embezzling over 800 million rubles ($24.2 million), the Russian Interior Ministry said Thursday.
- 15:35 08/08/2013
The funeral of Pavel Adelgeim, the Orthodox priest stabbed to death in the northwest Russian city of Pskov earlier this week, took place Thursday in the presence of about 1,000 mourners at the Church of the Myrrh Bearers, where he served for the last decades of his life.
- 14:42 08/08/2013
Russia’s Audit Chamber on Thursday published a damning report on the condition of Russia’s river transport system, describing unfit vessels operating under outdated regulations.
- 14:15 08/08/2013
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has given top priority to an appeal by two Russians, accused of involvement in the May 6 riot in Moscow last year, against the conditions of their detention.
- 13:57 08/08/2013
Police in Russia’s North Caucasus are investigating a death threat against a senior Muslim cleric, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.
