Russia and Ukraine

Twenty out of 35 houses were consumed by flames in the Russian village of Bayan-Bulak on Thursday night. The steppe fire roared into the vil...

Independent monitors and election experts allege that voter fraud and new tricks added 10 to 16 percent to Vladimir Putin’s official result ...

ome 20,000 people gathered on a central Moscow avenue Saturday to contest Vladimir Putin’s sweeping victory in presidential elections last w...

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has announced in an interview with Komsomsolskaya Pravda that the city could see paid-for parking make a return...

Moscow will see mass protests both for and against the authorities staged over the upcoming days. All the possible rallying points immediate...

Quacquarelli Symonds has released its annual QS Best Student Cities in the World rankings. The study has two requirements for city’s to be i...

The head of the Audit Chamber, Sergei Stepashin, says he knows how to calculate what the so-called oligarchs still owe the state after the c...

A range of social spending pledges outlined by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a newspaper article earlier this week could cost the Russian...

On February 6, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin published his fourth program article, in which he continued to describe his views about...

The diplomatic struggle due to the crisis in Syria on Sunday (5th) moved into a new phase after failing in a week of overwhelming pressure f...

Finland elected a new president. It is Saul Niinistö, a 63-year-old right-wing politician, former Speaker of the Parliament and a representa...

Presidential candidate Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, released quite exotic ideas about the ...

A consumer rights watchdog wants McDonald’s to list the contents of its hamburgers and it has gone to court to see that the fast-food chain ...

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is close to getting into the presidential race after announcing that his campaign has gathered the necessary 2...

LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A gargantuan lawsuit between two of post-Soviet Russia's richest and most powerful men reached its climax in ...

The Bolshoi’s administration has stepped into the unfolding scandal over ballet star Nikolai Tsiskaridze's sacking from Russia’s most fa...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has launched a website in support of his presidential bid. The web site, www.putin2012.ru, outlines his planne...

As of November 2011, prices in Moscow’s hotels were the highest in Europe, RIA Novosti reported citing information obtained from the Hotel.i...

Old-Russian names made a comeback among Muscovites in 2011, RIA Novosti reported the head of the births, deaths and marriages office as sayi...

The Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal have released their annual Index of Economic Freedom rankings list. Russia’s score remains u...