Dec 23 (Reuters) - Russia’s lower parliament house could ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction pact with the United States by year’s end, state-run news agency RIA cited the chamber’s Kremlin-allied chairman as saying on...

MOSCOW — The 2018 World Cup will ramp up the quality of life in Russia so much that it will help reduce crime and make the nation healthier, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday. Putin also said the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will bring the...

The polar bear tagged by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rid himself of his tagged satellite collar, Vesti TV channel reported on Thursday, quoting the premier’s web site.

WORLD LEADERS have been gathering in the South Korean capital Seoul to discuss ways of rebalancing the global economy. Russian president Dmitry Medvedev took the opportunity to voice his concerns over North Korea’s nuclear programmes, saying they...

Russia said on Wednesday it had deployed high-precision air defense missiles in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, sending a defiant signal to Tbilisi and the West two years after a war with Georgia. The S-300 missile system bolstered...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday endorsed a controversial draft law that would expand the powers of the Federal Security Service, the KGB’s main successor. The plan has triggered fierce opposition from human-rights groups. In his first...

Copies of ‘Putin. The Results. 10 Years on’, written by opposition politicians Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov were “intended for participants of the forum”, starting Thursday, according to Olga Kurnosova, head of the...

Many Russian speakers living in Finland say they are often victims of prejudice. Russian-born Inna Latiševa wrote a book about her life in Finland as a ‘second-class’ citizen. Latiševa says she believed Finland would become her new home country...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday U.S. plans for a missile defense system were the main obstacle to reaching a new deal on reducing Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons. The two largest nuclear powers say they are close to agreeing...

The Russian people were urged yesterday to display a strong will “for a victory over terror” after the death of 25 people in the bombing of an express train. The attackers were determined “to frighten everybody who lives in Russia”, the head of...