After the equivalent of 300 grams of TNT detonated under a train in Dagestan early Monday, more details emerged in Friday's Nevsky Express bombing, including descriptions of several suspects.

A $2.6 million contract to service the elite Valdai dacha — along with similar tenders showcasing the luxury enjoyed by government officials — was first reported by Zakupki-News, a LiveJournal community.

On Nov. 24, we saw a new, strong-willed side of Dmitry Medvedev when he fired three generals and one colonel for their negligence in the explosions that occurred one day earlier at a Navy weapons arsenal in Ulyanovsk.

Liberal politician Boris Nemtsov must pay 500,000 rubles ($17,100) to the Moscow mayor for a September Kommersant article in which Nemtsov called Luzhkov a “thief” and a “corrupt official.”

The country’s second- and third-largest union groups are planning to hold a unification conference early next year.

As the fifth new treaty in 22 years, the Lisbon Treaty marks an important step forward for the EU, and given the struggle to secure its ratification, it is likely to be the last for at least the next decade.

Market participants expect strong growth in both the manufacturing and service sectors during the next year.

Speaking after a briefing with Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, who was on a visit to the Bushehr nuclear power plant, an Iranian atomic energy official said Russia would get priority as Iran sought to build 20,000 megawatts of new generation capacity.

The bank will get the future home of an Audi dealership as part of a restructuring.

In a written reply to his lawyers, London's Crown Prosecution Service refuted Yevgeny Chichvarkin’s claims that a criminal investigation against him in Russia amounted to political persecution.