The heads of the FBI and the Russian security service have been meeting about NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow will not extradite him to the United States.
Russia plans to ship less than 1 million barrels a day of Urals crude from the port of Primorsk for a third month, with shipments set to drop to the lowest in more than five years, a preliminary loading program showed.
A rabbi was shot and gravely wounded Thursday by an unidentified gunman in Russia’s predominantly Muslim province of Dagestan in what officials described as a hate crime.
Investigators have brought charges against four men over a recent high-profile murder case that ignited smoldering ethnic tensions in the Russian town of Pugachyov, the Investigative Committee said Thursday.
Authorities in Sochi have inspected the Sochi office of Memorial, one of Russia’s leading human rights organizations, Human Rights Watch said today. The inspection came the day after the office’s coordinator handed the local prosecutor’s office a complaint alleging serious violations against migrant workers by a company involved in construction for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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.
