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'Though we invited Russian and Iranian ambassadors to the presentation of film 'Without Lachin', they didn't come'. Ali Hasanov, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the ...

A Russian defense company worker was convicted Friday of passing missile secrets to foreign intelligence in the latest espionage case amid a cold spell in Moscow's relations with ...

American MMA veteran Jeff Monson has held his second straight bout in Russia, with Saint Petersburg bringing him a lot more luck than ...

Defending champion Finland is a tough team but unlikely to surprise Russia when they meet in Saturday’s world championships semifinal, Russia center Evgeni Malkin said Friday. The Finns edged ...

The yield on Italian and Spanish 10-year sovereign bonds rose beyond six percent after Moody's downgraded ratings for 16 Spanish financial ...

Russia A group of unknown masked individuals hurled rocks at buses at a gay-rights rally in St. Petersburg, dedicated to the International Day Against ...

Russia's largest car maker, AvtoVAZ, saw 2011 net profit jump 86.2 percent year-on-year to 6.7 billion rubles ($213 million) to IFRS, the firm said in a statement on Friday. The net profit was ...

Russia will push for finalizing an agreement on greenhouse gases and a discussion on global terrorism at the G8 summit in Camp David in Maryland, which kicks off on Friday, the Russian government ...

Russian cruiserweight Grigory Drozd wants August rematch with Firat Arslan, the only man ever to defeat him, Drozd told RIA Novosti on Friday. Drozd, who holds the WBO Asia Pacific belt, is first ...

One person has been injured in an ammunition depot fire in the Primorsk Territory, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said on Friday The Defense Ministry’s ammunition dump storing 100-mm ...

RUSSIA today sentenced a worker at a weapons plant to eight years in jail for handing over secret information to foreign intelligence, the RIA Novosti news agency ...

Gazpromneft Aero Open a new window, in accordance with the terms of their long-term agreement with Italian oil & gas company ENI Open a new window, has begun regularly refuelling Transaero ...

The leader of Russia's opposition Solidarnost movement, Ilya Yashin, has been sentenced to 10 days in jail after being found guilty of failure to obey a law-enforcement ...

Russia's Summa Group may buy 56 percent of the Vladivostok based FESCO Transportation Group from businessman Sergei Generalov for about $1 billion to establish a land-shipping company, ...

The FBI on Monday released a trove of declassified documents, videos and pictures featuring Russia's undercover femme fatale Anna Chapman and other members of a Russian spy ring busted last ...

Russian stocks continue falling on Friday, hitting fresh lows as investors deserted emerging markets amid political uncertainty in Greece and the European debt crisis. By 11:07 p.m. Moscow time, ...

Maria Sharapova will play Venus Williams in the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters after defeating former French Open champion Ana Ivanovic in the third round. In a battle between two former world ...

Sacha Baron Cohen's new comedy film The Dictator will not be shown in the movie theaters of Tajikistan due to "the mentality of people," Tajik movie distributor Tantana said. The ...

The FBI has provided items belonging to Russian spy Anna Chapman for a New York exhibition devoted to secret agents, lifenews.ru said on Friday. A female 007, Chapman was arrested in June 2010 and ...

Exceeding the number of demonstrators permitted at a demonstration should not be the basis for prosecution of the event's organizers, Russia's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. ...