Turkmenistan's president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has made it clear that the pipeline was a snub to Russia and that his country wanted closer ties with China.

The late human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov was commemorated in Moscow on Monday on what would have been his 90th birthday.

In the wake of the fire in Perm that killed at least 146 people, inspectors are shutting down scores of Moscow clubs.

The head of the region’s Dmitrov district said Paramonovo already has a world-class facility ready to host major international events, and building winter sports venues would be cost-effective.

The way that Gazprom prices its gas will remain unchanged despite flagging demand from Europe, the company's deputy chief executive Alexander Medvedev said.

The blaze at a cafe in Mytishchi, a town 20 kilometers northeast of Moscow, injured four workers at a nearby market and caused traffic jams at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and Ostashkovskoye Shosse, Interfax reported.

Russia has always had a plethora of bad news that ruins its image, and it hasn’t realized that you can’t create good PR on bad news.

The European Security Treaty advanced by President Medvedev is mostly a trap to engage NATO and the West in years of pointless negotiations.

Four Kazakh nationals and a Belarussian were detained in Thailand after rocket-propelled grenades, surface-to-air missile launchers and other weapons were found aboard their Georgia-registered cargo plane.

On Dec. 12 the energy company won development rights for Iraq’s supergiant West Qurna-2 oilfield.