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Leaders of gunmen who have taken over city halls and other sites in and around Donetsk this month in pursuit of demands for a Crimea-style referendum on union with Moscow renewed its insistence that it has no control over the "little green men" who, as before Russia annexed Crimea last month, appeared in combat gear and with automatic weapons to ... (more)

As part of Russian Culture Week, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen will give two public talks Thursday at the University of Colorado.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to expand the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in Russia's Far East , the country's only producer of liquefied natural gas, as it seeks to boost its presence in the Asian energy market.

Thrashed out Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian, U.S. and European Union counterparts, it is intended to be the first step toward easing the crisis in Ukraine.

Russian surveillance planes already fly over America, thanks to a long-standing treaty.

If current trends continue, half of the population of the Russian Federation in its current borders will consist of immigrants, according to a new Moscow study, a conclusion clearly intended to feed anti-immigrant feelings and, more speculatively, designed to promote a discussion of what can and should be done, including the changing of those ... (more)

The street art world has undergone a massive shift in the past few years, with famous figures like Banksy and Shepard Fairey elevating the medium to mainstream consciousness.

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to the CEO of Siemens AG Joe Kaeser during their meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 26, 2014.

The visit of Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida to Russia, scheduled to late April, has been postponed.

A group of six Ukrainians visited Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment Thursday to learn about the school and to share information about their native country.

One of Russia's lawmakers who helped create the infamous "homosexual propaganda" bill, which was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin last summer, is now urging for all gay clubs and LGBT social media pages to be banned, Gay Star News reports.

The company classifies its products into two major divisions namely, seamless products and welded products.

Russian ties may be at their frostiest since the height of the Cold War, but at least there's some warmth to the relationship between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

In a note to members, which supposedly stemmed from a Russian request, council members were originally invited to informal consultations on Monday evening.

As far as hotels go, the Brioni Boutique is pretty nondescript. Except, of course, for the neatly printed note on its door with the following message: "As of March 24, 2014 we refuse accommodation to citizens of the Russian Federation because of the annexation of Crimea.

Regulatory: Sberbank: STATEMENT of Material Fact 'On specific resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the issuer' Sberbank / Miscellaneous 16.04.2014 10:34 Dissemination of a Regulatory Announcement, transmitted by EquityStory.RS, LLC - a company of EQS Group AG.

In the early 1990s, when the German spa town of Baden-Baden was aging and fading, an inflow of Russian money that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union boosted tourism and drove up real-estate prices.

A photographer spent four years travelling across the former Soviet Union, taking pictures of the grand new buildings constructed since the fall of Communism.

Beginning in May, The Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation will hold its 2nd annual International Arts Festival in New York City.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with All-Russia People's Front activists in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, 10 April 2014.