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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin proposed joining Russia’s space and aviation industries at a Monday meeting about the Proton-M rocket crash.

Bloodhound Gang were this weekend banned from playing a Russian festival after their bassist shoved the country’s flag down his underpants during a gig.

Opposition candidate Alexei Navalny‘s fundraising system has raised objections in the Moscow City Duma, the Central Elections Commission and the Kremlin, with opponents saying that the candidate could be receiving funds from abroad.

A new high-speed rail line will connect Moscow and Russia’s Muslim region of Tatarstan. The projected cost is $30 billion for the link, which will cut travel time to the 2018 FIFA World Cup site from 14 hours to 3.5 hours. Experts weigh the project’s potential economic costs and ecological side-effects.

Russia has instituted a new system for granting residency to foreigners. Basing it off a point system that favors the young and educated, this new system will further complicate the lives of the millions of illegal immigrants seeking to work and live inside the country. For further examples of the efforts made to limit the […]

The Prosecutor General’s Office has responded to a complaint filed by Vitaly Milonov, a member of St. Petersburg legislature, regarding the concerts by Madonna and Lady Gaga. The humanitarian visas issued to the performers, were used for commercial activities, which is against the law. The supervisory authority is considering options to notify the Foreign Ministry and […]

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon said his country’s parliament will ratify an agreement that extends Russia’s military presence in Tajikistan until 2042.

Russia will no longer recognize a UN convention that established an international customs transit system aimed at speeding up the movement of goods from Aug. 14, the Federal Customs Service has announced, raising the specter of new import hassles at customs.

The Interior Ministry has started an investigation after 148 traffic police in southwestern Siberia wrote to President Vladimir Putin and the interior minister claiming that their superiors were running a massive extortion racket, the ministry’s press service said Thursday.

Russia said on Thursday a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to tighten sanctions against Iran would not help resolve the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program.