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President Vladimir Putin will soon start arriving at the Kremlin by helicopter in an attempt to appease drivers who blame his motorcade for creating traffic jams.

Russian pollsters vary in their estimates of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating. The Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) said 62 percent of Russians would vote for Putin if presidential elections were to take place this Sunday.

Investigators said Thursday that they have opened a criminal case into Rosbank chief executive Vladimir Golubkov and bank senior vice president Tamara Polyanitsina on bribery charges.

Kirov district court is again being rocked by the embezzlement proceedings pending against Russian opposition activist and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny Thursday, and RAPSI is on-hand to provide of-the-moment coverage of the latest developments in the high-profile trial.

The president of Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation, billionaire businessman Viktor Vekselberg, denied on Wednesday earlier allegations that the foundation funded the political opposition.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday called on the Syrian opposition to support Moscow and Washington in their efforts to work towards convening a peace conference to end the bloodshed in Syria

The opposition may stage its next rally in Moscow on June 12, Russia Day, said Sergei Davidis, a member of the Solidarity movement’s political council.

On May 15th the trial of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov resumes. The court will hear testimony by regional government officials who worked with Navalny – from the Governor, Mr. Belykh, to his former assistant, Mr. Votinov, sentenced to three years in prison. While all the attention is focused on Alexei Navalny, Novaya Gazeta correspondents […]

The US diplomat accused by Moscow this week of being an undercover CIA operative was once a star intern for a prominent Middle East expert at a top Washington think tank, a fellow intern told RIA Novosti.

Vladimir Putin has been unusually silent about the expulsion of a U.S. diplomat Russia says it caught red-handed trying to recruit an agent for the CIA. But Putin need not say anything – his pliant state media is doing the talking for him.