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Russian police said Wednesday they have detained a group of people presumed to be members of a banned radical Islamist sect carrying ammunition and an explosive suicide belt.

Nearly half of Russians think that the State Duma, the Russia’s lower house of parliament, plays too little a role in the country’s political process to be needed, a survey indicated.

Ukraine’s biggest candymaker, Roshen, will be re-permitted to send its products to Russia as long as Ukrainian sanitary authorities check every single batch for delivery, Russia’s consumer protection service said Tuesday.

The government has won a high court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.

A court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has sentenced a local journalist to 18 months in jail for insulting a local judge in his blog.

Russia had urged Kiev to delay signing a key deal with the EU, Ukraine’s prime minister has admitted, as mass protest rallies continue across the country.

Russia’s state-controlled gas export monopoly Gazprom expanded its already considerable media interests on Tuesday by buying metals tycoon Vladimir Potanin’s Profmedia

Cofounder of the file-sharing website Pirate Bay Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and hosting provider PRQ are defendants in several online piracy cases being heard in the Moscow City Court, Kommersant business newspaper reports Tuesday.

Michelangelo’s David and Venus de Milo may soon be required to don fig leaves in Russia, according to a new draft law proposing making “erotic” artworks inaccessible to young Russians.

The leaders of the opposition parliamentary factions Batkivschyna, UDAR, and Svododa, Arseniy Yatseniuk, Vitali Klitschko and Oleh Tiahnybok, have called for the resignation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov’s government at a rally outside the cabinet building.