A court in France’s Aix-en-Provence on Thursday ruled to extradite fugitive BTA Bank ex-CEO Mukhtar Ablyazov to Russia or Ukrauine, with the priority given to the Russian side, AFP reports.
Police in Moscow are investigating a video that shows alleged football fans burning a Quran and attacking Muslims in retribution for recent suicide bombings in Volgograd.
Local authorities have declared a state of emergency and enacted a pig quarantine after an outbreak of African swine fever in a village in Russia’s southern Volgograd Region, a health official said Thursday.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday confirmed the list of 1,007 institutions that will be run by the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations, which was created last year by a law on academic reforms.
Senegalese authorities skipped on Tuesday a pre-arranged meeting with Russian officials over the fate of a Russian trawler detained last week.
A publishing house run by the Russian Orthodox Church has released a 2014 calendar devoted to Josef Stalin, unleashing a flurry of indignation among Russian bloggers and a discussion about the Church’s ties to the former Soviet dictator.
A controversial sitcom star-cum-priest asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring back a Soviet law criminalizing “sodomy.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet on January 13 in Paris to discuss Iran’s possible role in the upcoming Syrian peace talk, a source with the ministry said on Tuesday.
Russian police said Sunday that over 20 people were detained in downtown Moscow on Monday in what activists described as a protest against political prisoners.
Russia has launched one of the biggest security operations in Olympic history, a month before the start of the Winter Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
