ALEXEI NAVALNY’S election headquarters looks like a set for a film about American presidential elections. The small Moscow building is bustling with young volunteers brainstorming, tapping away on their MacBooks, carrying boxes of advertising materials, signing up artists. Tagged the “Navalny Team”, they are energised with coffee and Mr Navalny’s slogan: “Change Russia—start with Moscow”.
Syria’s ambassador to Russia on Wednesday dismissed accusations that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces used chemical weapons against civilians in an attack near Damascus, Russian news agency Interfax reported.
Russia will deliver another batch of 12 Sukhoi Su-30MK2 fighter aircraft under a recent contract worth about $450 million, a defense industry source told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
Russia has asked France to extradite Kazakh oligarch banker Mukhtar Ablyazov, accused of embezzling up to $6 billion from his former bank BTA, Russia’s deputy prosecutor general was reported as saying on Wednesday.
Nine defendants in the so called Bolotnaya Case have backtracked on their earlier refusal to take part in the trial at Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court.
A tree planted as a “symbol of the eternity of independent Tajikistan” by the impoverished ex-Soviet nation’s president has withered.
A leading diplomat from the U.S. State Department and the U.S. ambassador to Syria will meet with a Russia delegation in The Hague next week to discuss plans for a peace conference to end the civil war in Syria, a spokeswoman for the State Department said.
The world’s top brewers once bet big on Russia’s famous love of drinking, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into new plants and distribution networks as they sought to tap a growing taste for beer in a land where vodka long ruled.
Russia’s Defense Ministry postponed the purchase of 37MiG-35 fighter jets until 2016 because the defense industry cannot fulfill the contract, a senior defense official said Tuesday.
Authorities say police have killed five people including a prominent warlord in a clash in the restive North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.
