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Bolshoi leadership announce plans for new season and refuse to discuss shocks including acid attack on ballet director

Hovercraft, bionic arms, space tourism and nuclear laptop batteries may all be products of the future to be created and brought to market by Skolkovo, the business education and technology center taking shape on the outskirts of Moscow.

Opposition lawmakers and businessmen said at a panel Thursday that Russia had lost billions of dollars due to cuts in import tariffs after its accession to the World Trade Organization.

The criminal cases against Russian opposition activists Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev is on its way to court.

A prominent Russian MP has called on the country to boost its “digital sovereignty” and wean its citizens off foreign websites followingrevelations that the US was operating surveillance systems to spy on foreigners’ electronic communications.

[This article examines the amendments proposed by Russia’s Ministry of Justice which would expand the state’s ability to inspect and interfere in the activities of NGOs, regardless of their funding sources. These measures would extend the law passed in 2012 requiring NGOs receiving foreign funding to register as “foreign agents.”—Ed.] Many hoped that Russian authorities […]

Investigators on Wednesday charged leftist opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov and his ally Leonid Razvozzhayev with staging “riots” at an authorized opposition rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad in Moscow last May.

The next G8 summit will take place in the southern Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in June 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday.

At times during their 12-minute joint appearance on Monday evening, Barack Obama and Vladimir V. Putin seemed locked in a frowning contest, their fingers laced tensely in their laps, eyes narrowed, lips pressed tightly together — especially when they noted their continuing disagreement about Syria.

The ex-head of a subsidiary of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s now-defunct energy giant Yukos has been freed on parole by a Tomsk court, RIA Novosti reported Wednesday.