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Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi ordered preparation of an evacuation plan on Thursday for the country's North Pole 40 drifting polar research station, due to the break-up of the ice floe it is located on.

In this Monday Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia.

While the ongoing recession has pressured Europeans and Americans into spending cuts, tourists from Russia and China have been pushing up luxury sales.

Russia's Uralkali OAO would delay two of its potash mine expansion projects for as long as a decade if rival BHP Billiton builds the world's biggest mine of the crop nutrient, Uralkali's chief executive said in an interview.

WASHINGTON, May 22 Republican US lawmakers are taking steps to bar the United States from sharing classified missile defense technology information with Russia, draft legislation that was amended in the US Congress Wednesday shows.

As the U.S. and Russian governments trade accusations over espionage activities and human rights abuses, Baker & McKenzie of counsel Thomas Firestone, a former Justice Department official and liaison to the U.S. embassy in Moscow, has been expelled from the country.

In Orekhovo-Zuevo, the Moscow region, special services blocked three terrorists, who planned to conduct a terrorist attack in Moscow.

The head of the Council of Europe demanded on Wednesday that Russia allow gay rallies, weighing in on what has become an increasingly divisive issue since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency.

A Russian official undermined state prosecutors' case against protest leader Alexei Navalny at his trial on theft charges on Wednesday, saying that he had done no harm.

This weekend, St. Petersburg will celebrate its birthday early with citywide festivities on Saturday and Sunday preceding the city's actual anniversary on Monday, May 27.

Acting Daghestan leader Ramazan Abdulatipov in the People's Assembly in January, when he was named acting president by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Among talk of the problem of unpaid gas bills and the possibility of opening a St.

A new group of artists will open their third collective exhibition to coincide with Russian art week in London this June.

Primaries have been initiated and are now overseen by presidential deputy chief of staff Vyacheslav Volodin.

Dr Alexander Yakovenko, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Deputy foreign minister .

Khalid Dayli, a 23-year old fighter with Syria's rebel forces, flicked through the channels on his television, ogling at the scantily clad female singers and dismissing the talents of a Saudi soccer team.

The status of an individual entrepreneur will allow Depardieu to pay even lower taxes on his local earnings than the 13 percent flat rate applicable in Russia.

The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next February.

A menagarie of animals launched to space last month has arrived back on Earth - with a few casualties for the voyage.

The head of Russia's National Security Council has arrived in the US on a two-day visit for top-level talks on key stumbling blocks in bilateral relations.