Police have raided a company that provides private security to major Western firms like IKEA and Procter & Gamble in what its founder, State Duma Deputy Gennady Gudkov, called punishment for his support of anti-Kremlin protests. Police have raided a company that provides private...

Senior officials of the security services — the Federal Security Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Federal Guard Service — have declared their incomes for 2011, and, in contrast to other government officials, most don't own vehicles...

Two Cabinet members who served under former President Dmitry Medvedev will spearhead efforts to pump life into the economies of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Two Cabinet members who served under former President Dmitry Medvedev will spearhead efforts to pump life into the economies of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Tatyana Golikova, the former health and social development minister, will oversee the development of the two breakaway regions, and former colleague Elvira Nabiullina...

Renault and Japanese partner Nissan moved to expand in the growing Russian car market on Thursday with a $750 million deal that would give the French manufacturer effective control of Lada maker AvtoVAZ. PARIS — Renault and Japanese partner Nissan moved to expand in the growing Russian car market on Thursday with a $750 million deal that would give the French manufacturer effective control of Lada maker AvtoVAZ. The tentative agreement to double the alliance's...

... of jointly masterminding the plans. FSB agents have foiled a terrorist plot on Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, authorities said Thursday, accusing Chechen separatists and Georgia of jointly masterminding the plans. Georgian authorities and security experts, however, called the accusations "paranoid" and "hard to believe." The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the Federal Security Service had discovered 10 caches of weapons and ammunition on May 4 to 5 in Georgia's...

Just three days before his return to the Kremlin as president, Vladimir Putin met behind closed doors at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, outside Moscow, with U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, who was there to transmit President Barack Obama's renewed determination to strengthen cooperation with Russia. Just three days before his return to the Kremlin as president, Vladimir Putin met behind closed doors...

... weapons in Europe would add to the concerns expressed by many European leaders about U.S. long-term commitments to the continent. Thanks to U.S. leadership, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and other European countries have enjoyed historically unsurpassed security since joining NATO, but that security should not be taken for granted. All of the NATO allies must understand that the global security landscape is changing. Cyber threats and energy security have come to the fore. The situation in the Asia-Pacific...

... company (which were ZAO and OAO). Instead companies will now be either public (AO only) or non-public companies (AO and OOO). The unpopular registration type of ODO was removed from the Code. Public companies are those that may issue shares or other securities to the public. Non public companies may be more flexible in the manner how they are managed or the pre-emptive right is used. For example the non public companies' shareholders may choose to transfer functions of an executive body to a board...

At a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Tuesday, the president said the group's influence in regional affairs will increase. President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the influence of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in regional affairs will increase...

In the mid-1990s, former President Boris Yeltsin fought hard for the right to sit as equal at the same table with the leaders of the world's seven leading democracies. Using a lot of political wrangling, Moscow finally secured permanent membership in this elite club where the real heavyweights are supposed to solve the world's most pressing problems. In the mid-1990s, former President Boris Yeltsin fought hard for the right to sit as equal at the...

Calling it "a victory for reason," President Boris Yeltsin signed a historic security agreement Tuesday with the 16 NATO leaders and made a stunning pledge to no longer target Russian weapons at their people. Calling it "a victory for reason," President Boris Yeltsin signed a historic security...

China and Russia are resisting a Western push for the UN Security Council to threaten Sudan and South Sudan with sanctions if the two countries fail to comply with demands to halt their escalating conflict. UNITED NATIONS — China and Russia are resisting a Western push for the...

On Thursday, the Federal Security Service claimed that it had found a huge arms cache in the breakaway territory of Abkhazia. It said Chechen warlord Doku Umarov brought the weapons to Abkhazia with the help of Georgian special services to attack...

... arrive at a Syrian port over the weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described as credible. Syria is one of Russia's top weapons customers. The United States and European Union have suggested that the UN Security Council should impose an arms embargo and other UN sanctions on Syria for its 14-month assault on a pro-democracy opposition determined to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad. Syria has blamed rebels for thousands of deaths, including the killing...

Little did the Kremlin know during the late 1980s that Star Wars was only a bluff. Strangely enough, now the Kremlin is doing all the bluffing, trying to convince the world that an advanced U.S. missile defense system poses a major security threat to Russia. But Russian officials aren't doing a very good job at it. . On the eve of this week's international conference on missile defense in Moscow, the Defense Ministry promised to present "irrefutable evidence" to...

... control. Almost 20 governors — about one out of every four — have been replaced since the beginning of the year. There were two motivations behind the changes. First, there was a desire to replace weak, ineffective governors who were unable to secure the desired results for United Russia in the State Duma elections in December and for Putin in the presidential election in March. Second, the Kremlin wanted to install new governors in large, important regions like Samara, Sverdlovsk and Perm...

... upcoming inauguration. The bombs could also have been intended for a May 9 Victory Day celebration, said Enver Kisriyev, head of the Caucasus section of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ center for civilization and regional research. The Federal Security Service and the Interior Ministry have organized emergency operational search activities and police opened a criminal terrorism case in connection with the incident.    Dmitry Medvedev ordered that Magomedov provide aid to the families of those...

... building and defending a U.S.-backed pipeline across chronically unstable Afghanistan. The route, particularly the 735-kilometer leg through the Afghan provinces of Herat and Kandahar, will need billions of dollars in funding. It presents significant security problems as the Western NATO alliance plans to hand control of Afghanistan to its own security forces by the middle of next year. Turkmenistan's state gas company Turkmengaz signed gas sales and purchase agreements with Pakistan's Inter State...

... Soviet forces linked up on April 25, 1945, at the end of World War II, has been formed to achieve this goal. The Elbe Group consists of retired three- and four-star generals from the U.S and Russian military, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, Federal Security Service and GRU, the military intelligence branch. These agencies were for many years the hot spots during the Cold War. The GRU was so secretive that the Soviet government did not even admit that it existed until after the Cold War ended. In...

... demands that the government stop its attacks and pull back its forces, Russia sent another delivery this month. The shipments appear to be legal, as neither Russia nor Iran has signed up to Western sanctions barring such trade, and Moscow has blocked UN Security Council sanctions that would apply to all countries. But following the convoluted paper trail of the shipments shows how difficult it is for the West to enforce sanctions designed to restrict Syria's military capability, as long as Moscow prevents...