19:44
Shell to reroute pipelines in Russian Far East oil project over gray whale fears
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos. said Wednesday it would reroute planned pipelines at its oil and gas project off the Russian Pacific island of Sakhalin, bowing to the demands of environmentalists who said the pipelines passed too close to the feeding grounds of the endangered gray whale. More details...

16:40
Flamboyant Russian lawmaker in parliament chamber brawl
Flamboyant, ultra-rightwing Russian lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky clashed with a legislator from a rival party on Wednesday in a violent brawl inside parliament that highlighted his frustration at the dominant role of pro-Kremlin forces. More details...

16:28
Russia could raise gas prices for Moldova
Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom could raise prices for gas sold to Moldova to European levels, a top company official said Wednesday, as the government mulls economic sanctions in protesting what it considers unfriendly actions by the former Soviet republic. More details...

14:44
Former Yukos executive sentenced to 20 years for murder
A former executive of the beleaguered Yukos oil giant was sentenced to 20 years in jail Wednesday for murder, as the trial of the founder of the company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, draws to a close. More details...

19:07
Prosecutors ask for 10-year prison sentence for former chief executive of Yukos
Russian prosecutors requested Tuesday that Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former chief executive of the Yukos oil company, be sentenced to 10 years in a prison labor camp. More details...

17:08
Gazprom, Lukoil strike 10-year strategic pact
Russia's top two energy companies, the Gazprom natural gas giant and the country's No. 1 oil company Lukoil, signed an agreement Tuesday for a strategic partnership over the next decade. More details...

15:58
Director of Sakharov Museum fined over 'blasphemous' exhibit
A Moscow court on Monday convicted the director of the Sakharov Museum on charges of inciting religious hatred by organizing a controversial exhibit condemned by the Russian Orthodox Church. More details...

14:58
Putin calls for speedy work on tax reform package
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the government Monday to swiftly prepare a legal reform package to streamline tax collection, days after making assurances to big business leaders rattled by the back tax attack on the Yukos oil company. More details...

15:53
Accounts of Russian oligarchs blocked
The multimillion bank accounts are blocked in the framework of the money-laundering case at Israel's largest bank, Bank Hapoalim. More details...

14:37
Russia's Putin reaffirms ties with Armenia, reportedly seeking to open new military bases in ally nation
Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Moscow's close ties with key regional ally Armenia in talks Friday with his Armenian counterpart, Robert Kocharian. More details...

16:07
Report: Russian arms control researcher convicted of espionage refuses to admit guilt in pardon plea
A Russian arms control researcher who is serving a 15-year sentence for espionage is willing to sign a plea for a presidential pardon but refuses to comply with the requirement that he admit his guilt, his lawyer was quoted Thursday as saying. More details...

12:14
President Putin seeks to calm nervous Russian business chiefs
President Vladimir Putin sought to reassure Russia's jittery business barons at a Kremlin meeting Thursday, promising to guarantee property rights and not to review the murky 1990s privatizations. More details...

19:49
Russian schoolchildren set 3 world records in Antarctic venture
An international Antarctic youth expedition, Sky Odyssey for Russia's Glory, set three world records. The Russian Guinness Book has already registered them. There were children from all post-Soviet states in the team More details...

19:30
Wanted oligarchs plan to unite liberals and extremists against Putin
Boris Berezovsky calls upon all anti-Putin groups to unite - from pro-Western liberals to fascist-minded National Bolsheviks - the top priority of the exiled oligarchs More details...

19:12
Russia criticizes EU foreign policy chief for "counterproductive" statements on Kyrgyz crisis
Russia's foreign minister criticized the European Union's foreign policy chief for comments on Kyrgyzstan's political crisis, saying they could be exploited by the opposition to increase tensions, a ministry statement said Wednesday. More details...

16:20
Russia says U.N Security Council permanent members must keep veto
Russia wants the existing five permanent members of the U.N Security Council to retain the right of veto if other permanent members are created under a proposed reform of the United Nations, a top diplomat said Wednesday. More details...

12:15
40 years of Soviet space conquest record:Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov first-ever space walk
March 18 marked the 40th anniversary of the first space walk. The Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the one who climbed out of the spacecraft and into open space for the first time in history More details...

11:17
Russians trust Putin, church, and armed forces
Russian research holding ROMIR Monitoring asked their respondents to name state and public institutions which they trusted. Respondents were asked the following question: "Which public institutions do you trust at the most?" More details...

11:11
Russia's foreign reserves to have larger euro share
According to a statement issued by the department of foreign and public relations of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the bank has increased the share of the euro in the so-called two-currency basket of currencies of the foreign reserves to 20%. The euro previously accounted for 10% of the foreign reserves More details...

17:39
Russia 'rainy day' fund to reach $36 billion by year-end
Russia's 'rainy day' fund collected from taxes on windfall oil profits is set to reach one trillion rubles ($36.3 billion, EUR27.5 billion) by the end of the year, a senior Cabinet member said Tuesday. More details...

16:49
President Putin to visit Armenia this week
Russian President Vladimir Putin is to make a two-day visit to Armenia starting Thursday, the presidency said. More details...

15:28
Russian navy chief says U.S., Britain blocking deal to avoid sub incidents
Russia's navy chief on Monday accused the United States and Britain of blocking an agreement between the world's leading naval powers to prevent underwater collisions and other incidents. More details...

12:17
Railways chief: Russia could supply oil to N.Korea by rail
Russian investors are in talks with North Korea on supplying the energy-starved country with oil by rail, Russia's railways chief said Monday in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk. More details...

19:03
Russia and Ukraine: eternal strategic partner
Mr. Putin visited Ukraine twice in support of Mr. Yushchenko's rival before last year's election, and Mr. Yushchenko's victory was widely seen as a blow to Kremlin policy in former Soviet states it still views as its sphere of influence More details...

12:15
Moscow authorities to drive wagons on graves
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov said that the plan would enable to build a facility with state-of-the-art swimming pool equipment. "The tragedy still grieves us deeply, but life goes on, and the decision that has been made is a way of balancing different points of view," said he. Mr. Luzhkov promised that a new center will be kept quiet and decent, without any "noisy fun" More details...

12:04
Special services arrest a terrorist's relative, involved in Moscow hostage drama in 2002
The brother of a Chechen female terrorist, who was killed during the hostage crisis in Moscow theatre in October 2002, was arrested in the city of Irkutsk, Siberia More details...

21:32
Crash of Russian plane: killing 29 of the 52
The An-24 plane was carrying 45 passengers and seven crew members when it crashed Wednesday near Varandei in the Nenets autonomous region along Russia's Arctic coast More details...

14:02
Olympic evaluators discuss security, political situation as Moscow presses its bid to host 2012 games
Olympic inspectors examined security and political issues Wednesday as Moscow continued to press its bid for the 2012 Summer Games. More details...

10:44
Russia will pay $10 million for Aslan Maskhadov
Russian authorities did not say who received the reward, and there was no way to confirm the payment. But the $10 million would be the largest ever given by the Russian government for a fugitive More details...

16:16
Rosneft seeks $11 billion from Yukos
A Moscow court on Tuesday postponed hearing a lawsuit filed by the buyer of the Yukos oil company's biggest production unit, which sought to sue the shattered company to the tune of $11 billion (EUR8 billion) for lost profits and unpaid taxes. More details...