Russia’s chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko has forbidden groups of Russian children from traveling to Britain because of the flu outbreak. It was not clear though, how he was

Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Region addressed pop star Madonna, who is going to give a concert on Dvortsovaya Square in St. Petersburg on August 2, and urged her to "to mind

According to those present at an AvtoVAZ suppliers’ meeting today, Russia’s largest carmaker may lay off almost a quarter of its employees, Vzglyad newspaper reports. That information was

The Iranian parliament has asked the government to avoid purchasing timeworn Russian-made passenger planes, after two air crash incidents

The British Council will return to Russia, after a lengthy, politically-motivated closure, NEWSru.com writes. “As a goodwill gesture, the Russian side is

Diego Maradona would prefer not to take his Argentina team to Russia for a friendly next month when he has a critical World Cup qualifier against

Russian police have arrested a German businessman, who cut up his Russian mistress Elena with a kitchen knife and threw her out of the

TNK-BP International, Russia's third-largest oil producer, announced Tuesday that net profit had more than halved to $2.01 billion in the first half of

Maria Sharapova shook off some inconsistent play to beat Ai Sugiyama, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-1 in the first round of the $700,000 WTA Premier Bank of the

Eleven people, including two children, have been killed in a road accident in the Nogai district of Dagestan in south Russia, days after President

A Russian anti-corruption activist was attacked by a group of men who shot him in the mouth with a stun gun at the weekend, Reuters wrote Monday.

The family of liberal Russian lawmaker Galina Starovoitova, whose murder in 1998 caused a furore in Russia, has appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev to reopen the case, AFP writes.

White House Press Secretary Roberts Gibbs on Monday called Vice President Biden an "enormous asset to the administration," after the State

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill began a ten-day visit to Ukraine today, Unian news agency reports. A crowd of about 2000 people,

Russia has successfully tested a nuclear submarine nine months after 20 sailors were killed during a failed sea trial, RIA news agency reported on

Russia has welcomed an announcement made Monday by North Korea that it was open to new nuclear arms talks as a "positive signal."

Moscow police received a call saying that an adolescant lion was found sitting unattended in a wooden box in front of an apartment block in the

Russia has released a suspected organized crime boss who is wanted by the United States for alleged fraud and racketeering, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing his lawyer.

Kyrgyzstan's Central State Election commission has officially announced that President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been re-elected with more than 76

A Moscow firefighter has lost his job after police discovered he had been growing marijuana at his firestation for 4 months.

Russia is the king of hotel development in Europe, according to the June 2009 Smith Travel Research Global Construction Pipeline Report, quoted by Business Travel News online.

Blackburn Rovers boss Sam Allardyce is trying to take Zenit St Petersburg striker Pavel Pogrebnyak to Blackburn as a replacement for Roque Santa

Russian surgeons from the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsk, western Siberia, have performed a unique bone lengthening operation on a 120 centimeter man, Russian website Life.ru reports.

The Americans are adopting fewer Russian orphans than they used to, a US official has said.

A passenger onboard an airplane attempted to commit suicide during an international flight from Novosibirsk, Russia, to Yerevan, Armenia.

A member of a Japanese ultra-right organization drove his car into the police barriers of the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, demanding that Russia return to Japan the island archipelago which both states

The Russian bear needs to be attractive to be respected by the rest of the world and it cannot become stronger without good foreign relations, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday,

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday the United States viewed Russia as a "great power," tempering earlier critical remarks about

According to Russia's Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin, 106 investigations are currently being conducted by the Investigative