Russia & CIS

Russian television journalist Pavel Brykin has been attacked after preparing an investigative report on the arrested mayor of the far eastern city of Vladivostok.

Remember Saturday morning? Early June, bright blue skies over the Moscow River - even sunshine if, like this runner, you woke up early enough.

Ukraine's state oil and gas company Naftogaz has asked Russian energy giant Gazprom to resume the country's gas supplies.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev may never live it down.

The Moscow city government is planning to file a retaliatory court case against the owner of a recently demolished kiosk near the Yuzhnaya metro station in southern Moscow.

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has criticized Russia for not fulfilling any of their key recommendations on fighting racism in almost three years.

The two men behind gunfire at a children's camp in Russia's Ural region have been revealed as drunk employees of the local education department, the Rosbalt news website reported Tuesday.

Forty-two percent of senior managers want to emigrate from Russia, a poll by headhunting company Agentstvo Kontakt revealed Tuesday.

Russia's Lavrov noted that demonizing Russia had become a modern trend in the European Union

Germany's Merkel is named the world's most powerful woman for the sixth year in a row by Forbes.

Viktor Korchnoi is considered to be one of the world's best chess players that never became a world chess champion.

The request cannot be fulfilled pursuant to the 1957 European Convention on Extradition, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office says.

The OSCE Minsk Group expects the next presidential meting to take place in June while there is no data set.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is on a visit to Germany.

The meeting will be held behind closed doors.

The sides discussed the course of the negotiations to settle the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has injured his hand while playing football, according to an Instagram post by the Foreign Ministry.

Prosecutors have asked for extreme performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky to be fined 1.5 million rubles ($23,000) for setting fire to the doors of the FSB headquarters.