News Highlights

Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov has declared a state of emergency in five regions of Russia’s Far East, as 627 homes have flooded due to heavy rains.

The Kremlin says it is “disappointed” the US cancelled bilateral talks in September, after Russia granted asylum to intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

The Central Elections Commission has cautioned politicians against using offshore schemes to fund election campaigns in an explicit reference to the fundraising of prominent opposition candidate Alexei Navalny.

NATO membership would not give Georgia any advantages for further development and would only strain relations with Russia, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

Moscow police carried out yet more raids targeting migrants and marketplaces Wednesday, detaining hundreds of people.

The decision reflected both U.S. anger over Russia’s harboring of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and growing frustration within the Obama administration over what it sees as Moscow’s stubbornness on other key issues, including missile defense and human rights.

A group of 37 CEOs and entrepreneurs from Russian internet companies and start-up businesses have announced their backing for opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s bid to become mayor of Moscow, in a rare intervention in favor of opposition politics by Russian business.

A company co-founded by Andrei Yakunin, son of the scandal-beset Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin, is involved in the construction of an elite residential complex in St. Petersburg.

When A Just Russia c Nikolai Levichev tried to woo apathetic Moscow voters with word puzzles and lifestyle advice, it seemed a reasonable move – but only until racial slurs were found in a crossword.

Russia’s Supreme Court cut former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s jail sentence by two months on Tuesday, allowing one of President Vladimir Putin’s biggest critics to walk free in August 2014 after more than a decade behind bars.