Finance Ministry Cancels $560M Bond Auction; Nordgold Raises Gold Output by 15% in Q1.

The State Duma ethics committee has recommended that hothead politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky make a public apology to the journalists he insulted last week, and distribute information about his ethics violations to the media.

Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov on Wednesday ordered that a military operation against armed pro-Russian protesters in the country's east resume, as Russia's foreign minister warned of "retaliation" if Russians' rights were violated.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took his first selfie photograph on Wednesday, smiling from ear to ear during an interview with a veteran RT reporter who showed him how take the trendy smartphone self-portrait.

As friends and family waited impatiently to hear from Simon Ostrovsky, the U.S. journalist kidnapped by pro-Russian insurgents Tuesday, an image of a scantily dressed woman crawling across a bed appeared on his Facebook page.

Last Friday evening, the Russian Security Council met. In attendance were 12 men — almost all of whom are around 60 years old and who once worked in the KGB in St. Petersburg — and one woman.

If a civil war breaks out in Ukraine, it will not likely follow the Bosnian scenario, but the Spanish one from the mid-1930s.

Russia's parliament has agreed to write off about $10 billion of North Korea's Soviet-era debt, in a deal expected to facilitate the building of a gas pipeline to South Korea across the reclusive state.

Support for the legacy of Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is on the rise, a poll published on the eve of the 144th anniversary of his birth showed.

A foundry in the Ural Mountains will honor the annexation of Crimea into Russia with a series of commemorative coins featuring President Vladimir Putin and an outline of the Black Sea peninsula.