The Russian Foreign Ministry reacted angrily Wednesday to a Lithuanian court’s decision to extradite a Russian citizen to the United States on charges of arms trafficking.
Russian equities retreated for a second day as metal producers slumped and crude oil, the nation’s chief export earner, dropped.
Russia has allocated significant spending power to Rossotrudnichestvo, Moscow’s vehicle for promoting its influence abroad, as part of an apparent drive to improve the country’s image, according to a decree published on the government’s website Wednesday.
Six gay-rights activists were detained on Wednesday for holding an unauthorized rally in central Moscow, a gay-rights group and the city police said.
The children of murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya have declared the impending trial about her murder illegitimate and are refusing to participate, news reports said.
Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of stalling chances for peace in Syria by pressing ahead with plans to arm rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
A Russian court has turned down an appeal by a member of Pussy Riot against a previous court ruling that denied her an early release.
NSA leaker Edward Snowden has received a Russian immigration document and is expected to leave Moscow airport Wednesday while officials consider his application for permanent political asylum.
An amnesty for Russia ’s jailed entrepreneurs, ordered by PresidentVladimir V. Putin , has begun, with 13 people freed so far, the country’s business ombudsman said Tuesday. The amnesty was proposed by the ombudsman, Boris Titov, last year and signed into law this month to try to correct failures in a legal system…
Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet Iran’s newly elected president in Tehran next month to discuss restarting talks on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, Russian and Iranian media reports said on Wednesday.
