When users enter the Russian word for “why” into Google, they are prompted with the question, which stems from a series of images circulating online that showed the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s smiling face grafted onto a crustacean shell.

The Investigative Committee chief is in “satisfactory” condition after being wounded while visiting the site of the train bombing.

Regardless of whoever committed the bombing of the Nevsky Express, the attack demonstrates a complete loss of control in the country and a collapse of government authority.

The logo — which combines Sochi.ru 2014 with the Olympic rings — reflects the goals of the Olympic Games for Russia and was decided upon after vast amounts of research in large cities in Russia and abroad.

The Kremlin was hoping all along to use the S-300 system to increase its influence on Iran — and in the Middle East as a whole.

The economy is likely to grow by 2.5 percent next year, says Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach.

The government had demanded billions of dollars in tax from Yukos in 2003 in a move that led to the company’s bankruptcy and the jailing of top owners Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev on tax evasion and fraud charges.

The Kremlin’s Kadyrov policy resulted in something that it had sought to prevent in two wars: Chechen independence.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov promoted a set of security reform proposals sent to Western leaders over the weekend by President Dmitry Medvedev.