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Russia's highest court on Tuesday upheld a ruling halting the activities of a regional branch of Jehovah's Witnesses and banning dozens of its publications in what the group deplored as an unfair move.
Russia and the United States expect to strike a new nuclear arms treaty this month, a senior Kremlin aide told Russian news agencies Tuesday.
The death toll from last weekend's Russian nightclub fire has risen to 121, investigators said Wednesday.
An explosion and fire blamed on fireworks tore through a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm early Saturday, killing 102 people, Russian officials said.
A gigantic sculpture that is one of the most admired examples of Soviet socialist realism is back on view in Moscow after six years of restoration.
Russian news reports say iconic film actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov has died in Moscow at age 81.
Pope Benedict XVI and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Thursday to upgrade Vatican-Kremlin relations to full diplomatic ties, the Vatican said.
Wagging his pen and gazing directly into the camera, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent his strongest signal yet Thursday that he plans to return to Russia's presidency, telling millions of TV viewers that he will consider running in 2012.
The United States and Russia said Friday they had agreed to maintain the provisions of a major nuclear arms control treaty just hours before the pact expired after being in force for 18 years.
The letters are neatly folded and written on soft white paper in a confident, elegant hand. They tell a story of horror in the bowels of the Russian prison system, a saga set against the backdrop of the world of multibillion-dollar investment funds in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Astronauts from Canada and Belgium and a Russian cosmonaut landed safely on the Kazakhstan steppes on Tuesday following a six-month stint on the International Space Station.
Vladimir Nabokov's final, fragmentary novel went on sale Monday in two versions in Russia, more than 30 years after he asked that it be burned upon his death.
Finns on Monday marked the 70th anniversary of the Winter War, a conflict that saw this tiny country hold off Stalin's Red Army for 105 days and suffer one-third as many casualties in weather that was so cold some soldiers hallucinated.
Police released a composite sketch Monday of a man thought to be involved in a train bombing that killed 26 people, and a railway official suggested the attack had the hallmarks of terrorists from the volatile North Caucasus.
Russia stepped up its campaign for a new trans-Atlantic security treaty that would bolster Russia's global influence, saying Sunday that President Dmitry Medvedev had sent a draft proposal to foreign leaders.
Chechen rebels claimed responsibility Wednesday for blowing up a high-speed Russian train last week, an attack that killed 26 people, injured scores of others and raised fears of a fresh wave of terror attacks.
French electricity giant EDF will join Russia's Gazprom in supporting the South Stream gas pipeline under the Black Sea, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday.
Russia's once-mighty navy faces further dramatic decline after 2015, when most Soviet-built ships will have to be mothballed, a retired admiral was quoted as saying Friday.
Government-influenced television is hampering democracy in Russia, Belarus and most post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus, and it could endanger international peace and security if misused as a propaganda tool, a watchdog warned Thursday.
A Russian prison official reportedly admitted Thursday that harsh prison conditions are partially to blame for the death last week of a lawyer being held in a Moscow detention center.
A rare Siberian tiger that Vladimir Putin fitted with a radio-tracking collar is alive and well, the Russian prime minister's spokesman said Wednesday, easing concerns raised when an environmentalist said the tracking device had gone silent.
President Barack Obama's top military adviser attended the latest talks with Russia to replace an expiring Cold War-era arms control agreement, the U.S. said Tuesday.
Russia's Defense Ministry says eight military personnel were killed when a truckload of ammunition exploded as they cleaned up after a huge conflagration at a munitions depot earlier this month.
French officers on Tuesday showed off a cutting-edge warship to a potential buyer — the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries.
Russian spaceship designer Konstantin Feoktistov, the only non-Communist space traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, has died at the age of 83.
Russia suspends fire chief after club tragedyThe fire chief of a Russian city where a nightclub blaze killed 119 revelers is suspended along with five subordinates. Authorities say inspection records for the club appear falsified.
Putin Lambasts Russian Officials for Disco Blaze"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lambasted local officials on Tuesday [December 8, 2009] for failing to enforce fire safety rules at a nightclub where 118 revelers died in a blaze last weekend." The fire began the night of December 4, 2009.
In death, jailed Russian lawyer Magnitsky sparks debate on civil society - washingtonpost.comDead lawyer's jailcell confessions shock even Russians.
Russia reigns over its weatherIn the snow-hushed woods on Moscow's northern edge, scientists are decades deep into research on bending the weather to their will.
Russia's Carbon Credit Bank Seen as Barrier to Warming Curb - NYTimes.comHenry Derwent, the president of the International Emissions Trading Association, an industry group based in Geneva, predicted that an emissions market could be worth $3 trillion by the end of the next decade, compared with a current annual value of about $130 billion.
Copenhagen: Australia for Rich countries backs $10 billion per year fund for at-risk nationsAustralia (one of the world's worst per capita GHG polluters) has backed the creation of a [derisory] $US10 billion a year green fund to help vulnerable countries cope with First World-made climate change
Footballers Face Alcohol Inquiry | News | The Moscow TimesThe Russian Football Union said Monday that it would investigate a Channel One television report that members of the Russia national team had drunk alcohol and frolicked with prostitutes ahead of their loss against Slovenia in the World Cup playoff last month.
Investors.com - If Iran Refuses To Cooperate, Block Its PortsAll this "reset button" diplomacy came amid Obama's apologies abroad for past American behavior. We've sent peace feelers out to former enemies like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers of Cuba.
Canada 'Darth Vader of G8' - thestar.comOTTAWA–Canada's name may be mud heading into Monday's Copenhagen climate change talks. But a look back through history suggests any environmental praise that landed on Parliament Hill over the past dozen years has probably been undeserved.
Russians mourn as club death toll reaches 112Shocked residents of the Urals city of Perm laid carnations Sunday at the snowy scene of a cordoned-off nightclub where officials say at least 112 people died in a fire.
Video: Panic breaks out as Russian nightclub catches fireThe outbreak of a deadly fire in the Lame Horse nightclub in the Urals city of Perm was caught on camera by a clubgoer. The announcer can be heard saying in a relaxed voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, leave the club, we're on fire."
Russia: Online Forum Beats Media in Covering Night Club Fire Fire at the night club "Khromaya Loshad" (Lame Horse) [RUS] in a central Russian city Perm killed more than 100 people. According to an official version, the fire was caused by fireworks inside the club.
Fire Sweeps Through Club in Russia, Killing 100 A fire, apparently caused by an indoor pyrotechnical display, roared through a crowded nightclub in a central Russian city on Friday night, killing at least 100 people and wounding scores of others, the state news agency, RIA Novosti, reported.
At least 96 dead, 139 injured in nightclub blast, Russian authorities say - CNN.comJust in case you are wondering, this was not a terrorist attack according to authorities. Last weeks bombing of a passenger train was though. Hope they might want to chip in some more resources to the Afghanistan campaign as a result of the recent attack. War is spendy.
Scores reported killed in Russian blastAn explosion ripped through a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm near the Ural mountains on Friday killing 76 people, the Interfax news agency quoted police as saying.
Robert Amsterdam: Putin's Big Lie about KhodorkovskyI have been getting a number of calls and emails about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's impromptu attack against Mikhail Khodorkovsky during the televised call-in show this week, and there was one thing remarkably different from back when I would receive such calls just a …
Russia: U.S. deal to cut nuclear arsenals is nearRussia and the United States are close to a deal to cut arsenals of nuclear weapons, Russia said, as the world's two biggest atomic powers rush to replace a Cold War treaty that expires at midnight.
President Obama has an affinity for the advance of tyranny, it is the only way one explain the various statements and policy decisions that often coincide with anniversaries that mark such events.
Russia to Fight Terror, Promote Trade Mr. Putin says Russia must deal very harshly with criminals that carry out such terrorist acts and make attempts on the lives and health of people. He adds that Russians are sufficiently strong and determined to do so
Official: Russia train crash was terror attackThe head of Russia's domestic intelligence service said that a bomb was behind the derailment of an express train that left scores dead and nearly 100 injured.
Will more sanctions against Iran work? Middle East Strategy at HarvardHeightened fears about Iran's secret nuclear capabilities and stumbling nuclear talks point toward yet another round of UN sanctions. Previous U.S. and UN sanctions against Iran have been "smart" sanctions - targeting individuals and entities related to specific behavior.
Putin says he may run for president again in '12Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that he would think about running for president again in 2012.
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