Russia will begin judicial procedures to solidify its exclusive rights to a large area in the Sea of Okhotsk, part of the western Pacific Ocean that was recognized by the UN last month as an extension of the Russian continental shelf, a senior Russian official said Friday.
Imports from six Ukrainian dairy producers have been suspended, Russia’s consumer protection agency said, in the latest sign of worsening trade relations between the two countries since the annexation of Crimea.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will debate a resolution on the Russian delegation’s credentials on Thursday, according to Alexei Pushkov, the delegation’s head.
Two Russian homosexuals married Tuesday in Argentina and said they would seek asylum from the violence they fear back home in the Olympic city of Sochi, joining a growing number of other gays seeking marriage and refuge abroad.
A Russian military conscript who was severely beaten by a fellow soldier in an apparent hazing incident has been awarded 750,000 rubles ($20,000) by a court in the Urals region of Chelyabinsk.
Snap combat readiness drills started Wednesday in two of Russia’s military districts.
A Russian man has been jailed for nine years for killing a doctor who suggested that they have “homosexual relations,” prosecutors in the country’s provincial northwest said Tuesday.
President Vladimir Putin has put armed forces in western Russia ‘on alert’, amid rising tensions in the pro-Russian Crimea over the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych by pro-European protesters.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul will leave his post in Moscow on Wednesday and head back to California.
Worries grew on Wednesday that investors were backing away from some of the world’s key emerging markets, as Russia’s rouble hit a five-year low the day after China’s yuan saw its biggest drop in three years.
