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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Monday bidding to strengthen a relationship forged by Russian oil exports to Asia’s largest energy consumer. Russia, which this year sealed Chinese oil contracts valued at $100 billion, is now ... |
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 Thousands protested the authorities’ decision to let Gazprom build a 403-meter skyscraper close to St. Petersburg’s historic center at a rally on Saturday. ... |
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MOSCOW — The pro-Kremlin party dominated an election for Moscow city council as well as other local elections across Russia, results released Monday showed. With 99 percent of the Moscow vote counted, United Russia won 66 percent and the Communist Party ... |
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MOSCOW — The Interior Ministry said Friday that it has asked Interpol to put William Browder, once one of Russia’s largest foreign investors, on an international ... |
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Russia on Monday hoping to win Moscow’s backing for a strong stance on Iran’s nuclear program and looking for progress on a new arms control pact. American officials ... |
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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that he hoped U.S. President Barack Obama’s surprise 2009 Nobel Peace Prize would encourage the further ... |
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MOSCOW — Miroslav Klose booked Germany their place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as his first-half goal sealed a 1-0 win for the 10-man Germans over Russia here on Saturday. “We dealt well with the pressure here - it was not an easy place to play,” ... |
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MOSCOW — Vyacheslav Ivankov, better known as Yaponchik and dubbed the godfather of the Russian mafia, died at a Moscow hospital Friday morning after being ... |
 MOSCOW — A Moscow court convicted six Caucasus youths of beating two white teens in a racially motivated attack Thursday and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from four to seven years. Several dozen nationalists waiting outside the Dorogomilovsky ... |
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 MOSCOW — It will be clear that the Russian economy has recovered when construction on Moskva-City, the city’s new business district, is completed, Mirax ... |
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Russia will change its policy on the use of nuclear and other weapons as part of a new military doctrine that could take effect by the year’s end, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Thursday. The new doctrine, which is being drafted by military officials, would “formulate provisions” on ... |
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HELSINKI — Nord Stream, the Gazprom-led gas pipeline venture, has been temporarily banned by a Finnish court from blowing up naval mines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Nord Stream cannot clear the mines while an investigation takes place into a court ... |
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 City Hall plans to spend 9.5 billion rubles ($321 million) next year to build 260,000 square meters of residential real estate — three times less than ... |
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MOSCOW — Russia will need as long as 15 years to free itself of its reliance on raw materials and become a modern economy, President Dmitry Medvedev said. “That is a perfectly plausible time frame in which to create a new economy, an economy that will ... |
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MOSCOW — Sollers will open a plant in Vladivostok at the end of the year to assemble Korean cars, with investment in the project reaching 5 billion rubles ... |
 TOLYATTI, Samara Region — Renault and partner AvtoVAZ agreed to build cars together starting in 2012, part of the French automaker’s effort to satisfy Russian government demands for aid to forestall dilution of the company’s stake. The venture would make ... |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday called for boosting the share of medicine produced by local companies to at least 50 percent of total ... |
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MOSCOW — Russia’s budget deficit this year may be smaller than the government’s official forecast as higher oil and gas revenue replenishes state coffers, VTB Capital and Troika Dialog said. The fiscal gap this year may be at, or smaller than, 7.5 percent ... |
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 MOSCOW — WiMax operator Skartel, 25.1 percent of which belongs to Russian Technologies, is building a federal network of 180 cities under its Yota brand, ... |
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MOSCOW — A yearlong campaign against corruption has allowed law enforcement officials to tally up thousands of cases, but major successes have been elusive. President Dmitry Medvedev submitted a package of anti-corruption laws to the State Duma in October ... |
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TNK-BP Plan MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — TNK-BP said it would spend $1.3 billion on improving the quality of fuels produced in refineries in Russia ... |
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 MOSCOW — Builders knocked down a 19th-century building on a protected piece of land in central Moscow last Thursday to make way for an elite apartment complex, the latest casualty in a construction drive that preservationists say is destroying the city’s ... |
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MOSCOW — Many of Moscow’s foreign media are worrying about rising costs after the Foreign Ministry’s property department notified them that rental rates ... |
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MOSCOW — The Moscow city government will now use exclusively domestic materials on its construction sites, RIA-Novosti reported Monday. The decision was made to “support domestic suppliers, lower construction costs, use the potential of the capital’s ... |
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MOSCOW — Elite apartment rentals have become much less popular among foreigners this year, while demand for luxury apartments by Russian clients has tripled, ... |
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It is a pity that President Dmitry Medvedev will not share the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize with U.S. President Barack Obama. In my view, he deserves it no less than Obama, whose principal accomplishments are still in the future. Together with Obama and French ... |
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The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday was greeted with astonishment as much as any other emotion, even among many of his ... |
 The international crisis dealt a severe blow to the Russian economy. The lower oil prices and reversal of international capital flows to emerging markets hit the country hard because the shocks struck just as the economy was on a steep upturn and Russia’s ... |
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In December, I predicted that there would be huge shakeup in the Kremlin and White House at some point in 2009. It looks like I will be wrong on this one. The ... |
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 STOCKHOLM — Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, honored along with fellow American Oliver Williamson on Monday for analyzing economic governance — the rules by which people exercise authority in companies and economic ... |
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WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry is warning that a comprehensive Senate bill would increase the cost of a typical policy by hundreds, or even ... |
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people Monday, the fourth grisly militant attack in just over a week, as the Taliban pledged to mobilize fighters across the country for more strikes. The Taliban also claimed ... |
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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will never allow any of the country’s leaders or soldiers to be put on trial for war crimes. Netanyahu ... |
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 ADELPHI, Maryland — That night, he was returning home from the International Spy Museum, of all places. He had been meeting with, of all people, an old friend who once was a top officer in the KGB. It was raining when Paul Joyal pulled into his driveway in this suburb 16 kilometers from the White House. ... |
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