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Russian consumers have yet to embrace brut sparkling wine despite the efforts of one of the country's top fizz producers to lure drinkers away from demi-doux. Speaking at the London International Wine Fair at ExCel this week, Pavel Titov, director of historic Russian sparkling wine estate Abrau-Durso, explained: "When I joined the company we had 34 ... (more)

A Russian Orthodox priest who stood up for jailed members of the all-female punk-rock collective Pussy Riot says he has been granted political asylum in the Czech Republic.

A massive undersea earthquake on Friday in Russia's Far East prompted a tsunami warning and was felt in cities including Moscow far to the west, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

Tremors are felt from 4,000 miles away as two earthquakes strike in the turbulent Ring Of Fire region, in Russia and the US.

May 24th, 2013 will remain in the annals of the Circle Bastiat as an infamous day of self-promotion. There is indeed a second publication which yours truly is most happy to announce: the Russian edition of the Last Knight of Liberalism : Y : '> oe , 893 pp.

Russian emergency authorities lifted a tsunami warning on Friday several minutes after they announced one, following an earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's eastern coast.

RUSSIA has issued a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin Island region in its far east after a deep sea earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the USGS.

A strong, deep earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.2 struck in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Russian coast tonight, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there is no threat of a destructive tsunami to Hawaii.

Russia issued a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin Island region in its Far East after a deep sea earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the US Geological Survey.

MOSCOW, May 23 The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday dismissed as "politicized" the Religious Freedom Report recently published by the US Department of State and said that such documents incite religious conflicts.

BEIRUT: The Cabriolet Film Festival was founded in 2009 to provide a free platform for short films from Lebanese and international filmmakers.

"Chekhov," V.S. Pritchett's now-classic biography of the 19th century Russian story writer, physician, and playwright, is newly available in an audiobook edition beautifully narrated by Antony Ferguson.

Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in non-nuclear precision weapons.

MOSCOW, May 23 Russian and US perceptions of each other's role in the world have deteriorated over the past year, hitting their lowest point since 2009, according to a new survey commissioned by the BBC World Service.

The two main smoke trails left by the Russian meteorite as it passed over the city of Chelyabinsk.

Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi ordered preparation of an evacuation plan on Thursday for the country's North Pole 40 drifting polar research station, due to the break-up of the ice floe it is located on.

In this Monday Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia.

While the ongoing recession has pressured Europeans and Americans into spending cuts, tourists from Russia and China have been pushing up luxury sales.

Russia's Uralkali OAO would delay two of its potash mine expansion projects for as long as a decade if rival BHP Billiton builds the world's biggest mine of the crop nutrient, Uralkali's chief executive said in an interview.

WASHINGTON, May 22 Republican US lawmakers are taking steps to bar the United States from sharing classified missile defense technology information with Russia, draft legislation that was amended in the US Congress Wednesday shows.