Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko warned Thursday that athletes and visitors to the Sochi Olympics will be subject to the country’s laws against promoting homosexuality, contradicting a statement from the International Olympic Committee that the government had promised they would be exempt.
The Pussy Riot rockers jailed for performing an anti-Putin song in a cathedral might be pardoned by the president under a general amnesty this year.
Russian nationalists have jumped on the bandwagon of marketplace raids following a police clampdown in Moscow, taking to the streets in force and armed with baseball bats – to check the documents of fruit vendors, they say.
“Mine’s bigger than yours.” It’s perhaps the starkest manifestation of macho competition known to mankind, and now the president of Belarus appears to be challenging his Russian counterpart to a war of size.
Rosneft, Russia’s top oil producer, said Wednesday that it had started shipping additional oil supplies to China, following an agreement signed last month.
Prominent economist Konstantin Sonin has announced he is quitting Russia’s New Economic School just two months after the institution’s influential rector Sergei Guriev fled to Paris fearing he could be imprisoned.
In anticipation of the winter Olympics, Russian federal forces have launched a major crackdown on Islamic insurgents this summer. But many families in the North Caucasus say they have become random targets, which in turns leads to more young radicals.
Aeroflot, Russia’s national airline, should invest in the country rather than Manchester United, according to the deputy prime minister.
Russia’s defense industry is cutting down on its use of foreign electronics as a result of leaks by ex-U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, a Russian government official said on Monday.
Investigators in Russia’s central Urals region have opened a criminal case after a newspaper article called on people in a provincial town to attack ethnic Chechen residents, following a high-profile murder there.
