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.
Russia’s Central Bank has decided to adopt standards to tighten bank safety requirements simultaneously with Europe and the United States. The requirements, however, will be stricter in the Russian market than in the West.
Over 2,500 servicemen and 350 weapons systems are involved in snap combat readiness drills for Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), a Defense Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
In an unusual move, riot police officer Alexander Kozmin has declined to testify in the trial against a participant in last year’s large-scale anti-government protest at Moscow’s Bolotnaya Ploshchad.
Economic amnesty is a measure which applies to the whole system, it would be very difficult to apply its rules to any person in particular, business rights ombudsman Boris Titov told a news conference on Tuesday.
“All agreements between Russia and Syria in the area of arms deliveries are in place,” said Qadri Jamil after a meeting with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow on Monday. “The contracts continue and are in force.”
