‘Imperialist’ US sparking arms race: Putin

Friday 1 June '07

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the United States of imperialism and sparking a new arms race. Putin emphasised...

Spy death: Suspect alleges MI6 hand in poisoning

Friday 1 June '07

Andrei Lugovoi, main suspect in the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, on Thursday alleged that British secret service agency MI6 tried to hire him to collect damaging...

Will not swap spy murder suspect for tycoon: Russia

Thursday 31 May '07

Russia today said it would not swap Andrei Lugovoi, main accused in the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko...

Russia tests ballistic missile

Wednesday 30 May '07

As Russia today successfully tested a new long-range Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile from its Plesetsk cosmodrome, President Vladimir Putin warned US not to turn Europe into “powder keg”.

38 killed in Russian mine blast

Friday 25 May '07

At least 38 miners were killed on Thursday in the latest of a series of coal mine explosions in the industrial Kemerovo Region, in west Siberia.

Cannes to screen film on ex-spy

Thursday 24 May '07

The Cannes Film Festival’s selection has been changed to include the premiere of Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case on Saturday. The news comes while..

Britain charges ex-KGB agent with spy’s murder

Wednesday 23 May '07

The British Crown Prosecution Service today demanded the extradition of Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi to face charges over the murder of former KGB agent Alexander...

Russian church at execution site

Monday 21 May '07

Two days after a branch of the Russian Orthodox church reunited with the main body at a ceremony here, leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church on Saturday consecrated a new church at the site of mass executions carried out during...

Orthodox church ends 90-yr rift

Friday 18 May '07

Russian Patriarch Alexy II and the leader of New York-based Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Laurus on Thursday signed a historic agreement — the Canonical Communion Act

Putin, Rice agree to tone down rhetoric

Wednesday 16 May '07

President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today agreed to tone down the rhetoric over the differences between the two countries

Iran may join security group led by Russia

Tuesday 15 May '07

The General Secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Nikolai Bordyuzha today said Iran might join the post-Soviet security group...

No missile tech for Iran, says Russia general

Wednesday 9 May '07

Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen Yury Baluyevsky has ruled out transfer of ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) technologies to Iran, saying Tehran will not be able to acquire ICBMs even in the long term.

Estonia confronts Moscow over WW II memorial

Thursday 3 May '07

Estonia closed its consulate in Moscow on Wednesday, after activists of pro-Kremlin Nashi youth movement attacked its ambassador Ms Marina Kaljurand at her press conference here.

Sole Russian firm for n-energy

Sunday 29 April '07

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to set up a single state-owned holding company Atomenergoprom to control the civilian nuclear energy industry in the country.

Chechen chopper crash kills 18 Russians

Saturday 28 April '07

Chechen separatist rebels on Friday shot down an Mi-8 helicopter killing all the 18 soldiers on board during a special military operation to eliminate the militants.

Putin says no to third term, but doesn’t name successor

Friday 27 April '07

In his annual state of the nation speech, which was delayed two days by the death of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, President Vladimir Putin on Thursday declared that he will not seek a third term.

World leaders bid farewell to Yeltsin

Thursday 26 April '07

Russia’s first democratically elected president Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the collapse of the Soviet Union...

Stalin’s bunker to become museum

Monday 23 April '07

Russia is going to turn former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s bunker into a Cold War Museum and an entertainment centre. The Soviet military abandoned the 197-feet-deep bunker in the late 1980s.

Gorbachev slams Opposition rallies, praises Putin

Wednesday 18 April '07

Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday slammed the Opposition’s protest marches in Russia, and praised Putin for his leadership.

Kasparov detained at anti-Putin rally

Sunday 15 April '07

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who leads the United Civil Front against the Kremlin...

Ukraine seeks foreign mediation in political stand-off

Tuesday 10 April '07

In an emergency session on Monday, the Ukrainian Parliament voted to seek international mediation in the continuing political...

Ex-rebel Kadyrov is new Chechen Prez

Friday 6 April '07

Pro-Moscow Ramzan Kadyrov and son of former Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov was sworn in as President of Chechnya

New witness turns up in Litvinenko murder

Tuesday 3 April '07

A mysterious Russian witness called Pyotr, with covered face, appeared on Russian state television channel...

Vladimir Putin still opposes his ‘third term’: Kremlin

Saturday 31 March '07

The attitude of President Vladimir Putin to possible constitutional amendments prolonging his term of office or allowing him to run for a third term remained unchanged, the Kremlin press service said

Russia turns heat on Sakhalin-I

Thursday 29 March '07

Russia's environmental watchdog Federal Agency for the Oversight of Natural Resources