Russian billionaire Usmanov tops Sunday Times rich list
Alisher Usmanov, the owner of Metalloinvest metals giant and a major shareholder in London's Arsenal Football Club, has moved to the top of the Sunday Times Rich List in 2013 with an estimated fortune of 13.3 billion British pounds ($20.3 billion).
Boston bombing suspect probed for link with extremist group – TV
US Investigators are probing potential links between Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and an extremist group known as the Caucasus Emirate, Fox News reported on Sunday.
BRICS states to work in groups on Development Bank - Storchak
Finance ministers of the BRICS countries agreed to set up delegations that would work out the main principles for the establishment of a development bank by this fall, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak said.
New wealthy Russians join Forbes rich list
The newcomers include Mark Kurtser, Moscow’s chief obstetrician and Vladimir Litvinenkov, rector of the St. Petersburg-based National Mining University and a minority shareholder in PhosAgro
Russia to base French-made assault ships in Far East ports
Russia will base its French-made Mistral-class amphibious assault ships in the Far East ports of Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky when they enter service, a senior Defense Ministry official said in an interview
Alrosa to launch diamond trade on Shanghai bourse
Russia’s largest diamond miner has signed a letter of intent with the Shanghai Diamond Exchange to sell rough and polished diamonds at auctions held by the Chinese bourse, Alrosa said on Monday
Russia publishes its answer to Magnitsky list
Russia has published its own list of US officials banned from Russia in response to the US’s list of Russian officials facing visa and financial sanctions under the Magnitsky Act, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on its websit
US punishes Russian officials with Magnitsky sanctions
The United States on Friday released the names of 18 Russians to be slapped with visa and financial sanctions under the controversial Magnitsky Act, which punishes Russians that Washington deems complicit in human rights abuses.
Meteorite fireball slams Into Russia, 1,000 hurt
A flaming meteorite streaked across the sky and slammed into central Russia on Friday with a massive boom that blew out windows and damaged thousands of buildings around the city of Chelyabinsk, injuring more than 1,000 people in the area, officials
Man performs striptease for tiger in Kaliningrad
Offering a strong contender for the oddest nudity-related stunt of the year, a young man in Russia's western exclave of Kaliningrad stormed a local zoo to strip for its big cats.
Russia to triple state defense order by 2015
Russia will gradually increase the annual amount of the state defense order to 2.8 trillion rubles (about $92 billion) by 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.
Russia’s Voronezh air base to get 5 Su-34 fighters
Five multi-role Su-34 bombers will be delivered for a second squadron of the Baltimore air base in Voronezh, southwest Russia, on Tuesday.
Russia slams US opposition to UN 'Anti-Nazi' resolution
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday criticized the United States’ reluctance to back the Russian-proposed UN resolution against the glorification of Nazism.
Russia drops plans to build two mistral class ships – Paper
The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to abandon plans for construction of two Mistral class amphibious assault ships under the French license in Russia, business daily Vedomosti said on Friday citing a government source.
Moscow urges ‘risk minimization’ ahead of Afghan pullout
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday proposed an action program be worked out to minimize possible risks involved in the upcoming reduction of the international military presence in Afghanistan.
Tajikistan signals readiness to join post-Soviet customs bloc
Tajikistan has signaled readiness to join the Customs Union of the ex-Soviet republics of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to reap the benefits of closer economic integration, Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) Secretary General Tair Mansurov said o
Syrian rebels demand $700,000 for Russian, Italian hostages
Syrian abductors of two Russian citizens and an Italian national demanded a ransom of over $700,000 for their release, Kommersant daily said on Thursday.
Russian naval task force heads for Gulf of Aden
A naval task force from Russia’s Northern Fleet left the Severomorsk base on Wednesday and set course for the Horn of Africa on a new anti-piracy mission, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
No comment so far on US adoptions ban - Kremlin
The Kremlin “closely” follows “the public discussion” on lawmakers’ plans to ban US citizens from adopting Russian children, but will not make any comments so far, Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Kommersant daily on Wednesday.
Efforts underway to free 2 Russians abducted in Syria
Russia's Foreign Ministry will do everything within its power to establish the circumstances surrounding the abduction of the Russian nationals in Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.