The Moscow Times

As the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum opens this week, we take a look back at eight scandals that have pockmarked its 17-year history. (18+)

Russia and the United States have a signed a bilateral agreement for protecting, controlling, and accounting for nuclear materials, continuing important aspects of a now-defunct program that was seen as a cornerstone of post-Soviet cooperation between the former foes.

St. Petersburg activists have scored a court victory against Gazprom's plans to erect the 400-meter skyscraper in the city.

Diplomats at a conference organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe all agreed Tuesday that international organizations were vital in helping to overcome the Cold War spirit that still besets relations across the East-West divide, but they were unable to provide any clear answers to the issues on the agenda.

Russia has begun delivering tanks, artillery cannons and rocket launchers worth $1 billion to Azerbaijan, a Moscow-based defense group said Tuesday, as Baku strengthens its military readiness in the volatile South Caucasus.

When the time came to vaccinate her 4-year-old daughter, Yelena Hlushko hesitated, spooked by widespread fears in Ukraine about vaccines and by a boil her older child developed after an immunization shot.

A UTair jetliner carrying 245 people made an emergency landing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on Friday after oxygen masks deployed in the cabin.

Katherine Russell has tried to stay out of sight in the five days since her husband, one of the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing, was killed in a shootout with police.

A senior Russian lawmaker says the tragedy should remind countries to work together rather than create divisive blacklists, while another says the U.S. was to blame for the bomb blasts.

The former head of Izhmash, which makes the Kalashnikov assault rifle among other weapons, was detained in Izhevsk and whisked to Moscow to face charges of fraud as the Kremlin's anti-corruption crackdown expands in the defense industry.

Russian society is disillusioned with the wayward anti-Kremlin protest movement, and the center-left Just Russia party will not pander to self-proclaimed opposition leaders, the party's chairman said Thursday.

British police believe that foul play cannot be completely ruled out in the death of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, whose body was found over the weekend with a piece of material around his neck, an inquest heard on Thursday.

A mostly naked picketer demanded the start of summer in front of Moscow's main meteorology center on Friday, a news report said.

The Cabinet on Thursday discussed a move to slash taxes for large new projects in the Far East in a bid to buoy the region's economy.

Signaling an eagerness to maintain cozy ties with Venezuela, President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for even stronger relations and praised the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as "a close friend of Russia."

Renters of high-end apartments can now chose from offerings on a newly published list of the highest-priced properties in the city, though it might be necessary to win the lottery first to finance such a glamorous life among gold vases and Greek columns.

VTB Group laid out ambitious expansion plans Tuesday, with its retail banking expected to grow faster than the market in the next three years.

Staring down the barrel of the slowing economy and falling tax revenue, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on Tuesday rejected proposals to lay responsibility for growth on the Central Bank and offered his way out of the government's predicament — devalue the ruble.

President Vladimir Putin clashed with other world leaders over the civil war in Syria at a tense Group of 8 summit, blocking any mention of the fate of Syrian leader Bashar Assad from a final communique issued Tuesday.

The current wave of young job candidates entering the labor market presents unique challenges to hiring managers, experts said at a forum dedicated to human resources on Tuesday.