Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin has proposed building a multi-trillion ruble transport corridor extending from the country's Pacific east coast to Europe's Atlantic coast, a news report said.

The only English roundup of today's Russian-language newspapers.

The OSCE will not send observers to Crimea's planned referendum on whether the peninsula should join Russia because it considers the balloting to be illegal, the European security and democracy watchdog has said.

The top diplomats of Russia and the U.S. have discussed ways to settle the political crisis in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.

The longtime editor-in-chief of news agency Lenta.ru has been replaced by the former editor of a Kremlin-friendly online publication, prompting an uproar among many journalists who say the move is just the latest nail in the coffin of Russia's independent media.

A man in Ukraine has found a canine whose piercing gaze is strangely reminiscent of President Vladimir Putin's.

Precious Adams, 18, is set to become one of the first African-American ballerinas to finish the prestigious Bolshoi Academy.

A Russian nuclear-powered submarine operated in restricted U.S. waters for up to a month without U.S. Navy officials raising the alarm, a news report said.

An association of Russian scientists is calling for a 10-year moratorium on the production of genetically modified organisms to give the country's specialists time to study their effects on the human body.

The change in Russia's perception can be explained by the sobering effects of the global recession and the "reset" in relations.