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More than 14,000 local residents have been evacuated from 113 towns and villages in Russia’s flood-ravaged Far East.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Russia’s long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings at “BBB” with a stable outlook, the international ratings agency has reported.

Despite increasing exports to Europe and rising domestic rates, state gas giant Gazprom’s net profit fell by more than a third in the first half of the year.

Russia, Belarus and the Baltic countries agreed on joint operations to curb illegal migration through the territory of Russia to Europe, Vladimir Kulishov, the head of the Border Guard Service of the Russian Federal Security Service, said.

A Moscow district court on Thursday ruled that a Russian registry office’s refusal to marry a gay couple was lawful.

Russia will close more than 700 state schools this year, its top health official said, responding to a drop in birth rates and life expectancy in the decades since the Soviet Union collapsed.

The first televised debate leading up to Moscow’s Sept. 8 mayoral election ran smoothly but offered little in the way of surprises.

Top Democrats in the California Senate on Monday asked the state’s multibillion-dollar public employee pension funds to refrain from making future investments in Russia, adding their voices to protests against restrictions on gay rights there.

Russia’s Constitutional Court has received the first official complaint from a non-governmental organization against the controversial law requiring political NGOs receiving funding from abroad to register as “foreign agents.”

In the past three financial years, Moscow has bagged arms and ammunition orders worth over $16 billion dollars.