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A Russian official undermined state prosecutors' case against protest leader Alexei Navalny at his trial on theft charges on Wednesday, saying that he had done no harm.

This weekend, St. Petersburg will celebrate its birthday early with citywide festivities on Saturday and Sunday preceding the city's actual anniversary on Monday, May 27.

Acting Daghestan leader Ramazan Abdulatipov in the People's Assembly in January, when he was named acting president by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Among talk of the problem of unpaid gas bills and the possibility of opening a St.

A new group of artists will open their third collective exhibition to coincide with Russian art week in London this June.

Primaries have been initiated and are now overseen by presidential deputy chief of staff Vyacheslav Volodin.

Dr Alexander Yakovenko, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Deputy foreign minister .

Khalid Dayli, a 23-year old fighter with Syria's rebel forces, flicked through the channels on his television, ogling at the scantily clad female singers and dismissing the talents of a Saudi soccer team.

The status of an individual entrepreneur will allow Depardieu to pay even lower taxes on his local earnings than the 13 percent flat rate applicable in Russia.

The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next February.

A menagarie of animals launched to space last month has arrived back on Earth - with a few casualties for the voyage.

The head of Russia's National Security Council has arrived in the US on a two-day visit for top-level talks on key stumbling blocks in bilateral relations.

According to estimations of APK-Inform Agency, in March 2013 the production of sunflower meal in Russia totaled 353 thsd tonnes, an increase of 9% compared with the previous month index.

The Alley of Russian Poets is the brainchild of Uli Zislin, a Russian-born poetry collector and songwriter whose idea fell on receptive ears in 2003.

In recent months nonconformist culture and alternative artists in Russia have come under fire from conservative politicians and radical Orthodox groups alike.

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You just never know what your dash cam is going to capture on an average day in Russia.

The challenge is to transform such waste into food of higher functionality and added value.

A university student has been jailed in Russia for posing for a photograph in front of a Second World War memorial - arm in arm with a blow-up sex doll.

Two car bombs killed at least three people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency.