Nina Belenitskaya’s ‘Pavlik Is My God’ looks at filial relations through the myth of Pavlik Morozov, a youth who is said to have turned in his father for behavior unbecoming of a Soviet citizen, and was murdered in 1932 by his angry grandfather.

The law will come into force as early as Feb. 1 next year and introduce strict regulations on retailers, including a shortened period of payment for delivered goods, possible limits on retail prices and a cap on stores’ retail margins.

One of his last ideas embraced by the Kremlin was the creation of a stabilization fund to collect oil windfalls — a fund that the government is now using to ride out the economic crisis.

The guidance was reduced after a maintenance delay at its Pioneer mine and a landslide at the Pokrovsky pit.

Severstal’s owner Alexei Mordashov, 44, vowed in 2007 to turn the company into Russia’s third-biggest gold miner

A Russian source earlier said presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev might sign an agreement on a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty during UN talks on Friday.

Nikolai's blog posts on life in Chukotka are often tinged with an aching nostalgia for the hard life of his younger years, a life where the weather was worse, the flowers prettier, the winters longer and the day as dark as the night.

The Central Bank purchased a net $400 million through Dec. 15 as it both bought and sold currency on the market, its chairman said Wednesday.

Nauru’s recognition prompted a war of words between the governments in Tbilisi and Moscow.

Zynga Game Network created the popular Facebook-based "FarmVille" game, which boasts more than 65 million users worldwide.