Margarita Simonyan, the head of the state-funded RT satellite news network, was appointed Wednesday to head the Rossiya Segodnya media conglomerate that will include Russia’s major state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
As Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin argue over human rights in Russia and the fate of fugitive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, the countries’ biggest oil companies are preparing to drill for giant oil discoveries together in the Arctic Ocean.
Russia, one of the biggest importers of Norwegian fish, partially banned imports starting from Wednesday.
An unnamed Russian man set himself on fire Monday night at a police station near St. Petersburg, local police said on Tuesday.
An aide to a regional prosecutor died in a bomb attack in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus on Tuesday, a regional Investigative Committee spokesman said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the federal government to prepare procedures for the implementation of a ban on entry into the country for those found to have violated immigration law by July 15, 2014, RIA Novosti reported Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill allowing nature reserves to be turned into areas where limited construction, logging and other commercial activities are possible.
One person was killed and two injured in a roadside bombing in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan late Monday, a police spokesman said.
The International Olympic Committee president says he has confidence that Russian authorities will deliver a “safe and secure” Games in Sochi.
The death toll from two suicide bombings in the Russian city of Volgograd climbed to 34 Tuesday after two of over a hundred injured victims died, officials said.
