The Defense Ministry announced the failure of the Bulava missile test amid speculation about the origin of mysterious spiraling lights over northern parts of Norway.

Ten Moscow nightclubs have been temporarily closed over fire safety concerns in the wake of the Perm tragedy.

The outcome of the upcoming presidential election in Abkhazia is far from clear, but the winner is expected to maintain close ties with Russia.

St. Iosef of Volotsk is to be the patron saint of entrepreneurs, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill announced this week.

President Dmitry Medvedev said talks with his Belarussian counterpart had been productive, though emotional at times.

Vladimir Putin's annual call-in show this year threw up several examples of tricky professional slang and diminutives.

Growing numbers of Russians believe that the 1993 constitution is an important and relevant document.

Investigators say a traffic warden suspected of attempted rape could be linked to as many as 20 sexual assaults in the southern Moscow area this year.

Barring an open national discussion, there can be no agreement in society on how exactly Russia should and can modernize, the goal of modernization or its cost.

A new leading indicator created by Renaissance Capital and the New Economic School predicts 2.3 percent seasonally adjusted fourth-quarter growth.