After almost a decade of consideration, The Hague's arbitration court announced Monday that Russia must pay out $50 billion in damages to the shareholders of the defunct oil giant Yukos.
Russia's most popular social network VKontakte went offline for a few hours, troubling scores of users in what the company attributed to an "unprecedented" heat wave knocking out some of its computer servers.
Russia will not impose tit-for-tat measures or "fall into hysterics" over Western economic sanctions, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday, trying to stake out the high ground amid growing tensions with the West.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have agreed on the importance of ensuring a swift ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, a Russian Foreign Ministry statement said.
At least three civilians were killed in overnight fighting in eastern Ukraine while government troops pressed ahead with their campaign against pro-Russian rebels, officials said Monday.
Reindeer herders in Russia's Far North have discovered yet another mysterious giant hole about 30 kilometers away from a similar one found days earlier.
Amid international tension over the conflict in Ukraine, voices in the West are clamoring for Russia to lose the right to host the 2018 World Cup. While this is realistically highly unlikely, a boycott of the tournament by European nations would certainly be welcome news for some of the other teams, who might have a better chance of bringing home the elusive trophy.
McDonald's burgers and shakes could become the latest victims of worsening ties between Moscow and Washington after a Russian consumer watchdog agency accused the U.S. chain of sanitary violations.
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