Russia

The positive aspects of Russian-US relations, during the term of US President Barack Obama, include nuclear weapons reduction treaty and elimination of chemical weapons in Syria, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.

Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said that Russian economy is ready for a considerable inflow of foreign investments in the immediate future.

Dmitry Geranin, the head of the popular Russian weather service Yandex.Pogoda, has initiated a new project aimed at helping people organize funerals for their friends and loved ones.

Two pages of Soviet jokes were found among other documents in newly-declassified intelligence archives released online on January 18, according to the CIA database.

According to a defense industry source, Russia will carry out first flight tests of a missile for its revived combat railway-based ballistic missile systems in 2019.

A Russian government-affiliated expert working group at the federal level said Thursday it had rejected a petition on repealing of a controversial 2016 anti-terror bill.

Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained two recruiters for the Tablighi Jamaat international terrorist organization in the city of Kazan, according to official statement.

Moscow is ready to cooperate on fight against cyberattacks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Russia's sovereign debt as of January 1, 2017, according to a preliminary assessment by the Bank of Russia, totals $518.7 bln and has practically not changed over the past year, according to the Bank of Russia.

Russia will not tolerate the infringement rights of its citizens which have not broken any laws, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia will continue to defend its legal interests.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev stated that Russian economy will move from the adaptation to external risks to its lifting toward a path of sustainable growth.

The Russian government along with the Central Bank are preparing a joint strategy to tackle ruble long-term volatility, Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov told Bloomberg on Thursday.

If NASA intends to continue sending astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) or the moon, the space agency has little choice but to rely on Roscosmos’ Soyuz spacecraft, at least until 2019.

Watch Orthodox Christians bathing in freezing waters during Epiphany in Moscow. Thousands of people all across Russia braved the freezing winter temperatures to bathe in ice-cold rivers, ponds and lakes, celebrating the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany — the baptism of Jesus Christ.

US intelligence services undertook another attempt at recruiting a Russian diplomat on January 14, just a week before President Barack Obama's departure from the White House, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said Wednesday.

The lavish meals prepared for the presidential inaugurations are not a matter to be taken lightly. In Russia, the US and probably in every other country the dishes prepared for such a grand ceremony are cooked under the watch of the president's security to ensure that nothing is tampered with. The meals become more a work of art than anything else.

A few years ago a British theatre director, writer and actor Leon Cain decided to open his own theater in quite an unconventional place: Russia’s southeastern city of Perm. Years have passed and today his Unity Theater has turned into a famous cultural phenomenon in the industrial city. Sputnik spoke to Cain about how he came up with this idea.

During one of the last rounds of 2017 Dakar Rally Russian pilot Anastasia Nifontova lost control of her bike and dramatically toppled over on one of the turns in the middle of high plains. None the racers stopped to help her, except for one “true gentleman,” French racer Grégory Morat, who then called his act of self-denial “natural.”

In honor of their 75th anniversary, IMZ Ural, the renowned Russian motorcycle maker, released the Ural Ambassador Limited Edition motorbike made especially for the US market.