President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday ordered Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev to investigate a fatal car crash involving a LUKoil vice president that caused public outrage over a perceived police cover-up.

Lawmakers will consider removing a layer of bureaucracy from the process of hiring expatriate teachers.

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko’s decision to confer the title of Hero of Ukraine on nationalist leader Stepan Bandera unleashed a storm of outrage inside and outside Ukraine.

In 10 days, President Dmitry Medvedev will indicate where the future Russian Silicon Valley will be created, and one of the early favorites is the area near the business school Skolkovo.

Former Kremlin powerbroker Boris Berezovsky has won a libel case against a Russian state TV channel that accused him of organizing the 2006 poisoning death of former security agent Alexander Litvinenko.

The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service reversed a decision by its Moscow division last fall to fine retailer IKEA for violating laws on competition, the watchdog said Wednesday on its web site.

A Moscow court has sanctioned the arrest of 10 suspects in connection with November's bombing of the Nevsky Express train that killed 28 people.

The State Duma will consider a bill that will require Vneshekonombank and the Deposit Insurance Agency to transfer 75 percent of their profits into the federal budget, a Duma deputy said Wednesday.

Demonstrators have appealed for more compassion in Britain's immigration policy after a family of three apparently Russian asylum seekers committed suicide after being denied refugee status.

The Moscow City Duma on Wednesday passed in a crucial second reading a bill outlining City Hall's construction plans for the next 15 years that critics said puts corporate interests ahead of those of residents and does little to alleviate traffic jams.

Bloggers are seething over what they interpret as insensitive comments made by the company after one of its vice presidents, Anatoly Barkov, was involved in a car crash that killed two people. Some have called for a boycott of LUKoil gas stations and a popular rapper has written a song declaring that Barkov will go to hell.

The Kremlin is clearly not content with its diminished power status. But one way it can still project its power globally is to be the spoiler.

Russia may scrap the ruble and introduce a common currency with Belarus and Kazakhstan as the nations broaden their alliance and seek to reduce their dependence on the dollar, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said Friday.

One person was killed and two were reported missing after a blaze early Tuesday in the Opera nightclub.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will push India to double its payment for renovations on a long-delayed aircraft carrier, while also trying to conclude other deals for arms, nuclear energy and communications during a two-day visit beginning Thursday.

Putin’s Olympics will put on display the system he has built, which is why I have so many doubts about the outcome.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Friday won pledges for revitalized ties and tighter economic cooperation, including an invitation to join a Russian-led customs union, during his first official visit to Moscow.

A lenient sentence for a St. Petersburg man convicted of raping his niece for four years starting when she was 5 provoked an outcry Thursday. A State Duma deputy called the verdict "inhuman" and said he had asked law enforcement agencies to investigate whether the defendant had bribed the judge.

Russian diplomats pressed British officials for information Tuesday after media reports said a Russian family of three had jumped to their deaths from an apartment building in Glasgow after being denied asylum.

The high-stakes hearing is the first major case involving Russia since the State Duma voted in January to ratify Protocol 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights, allowing the court to proceed with reforms.

Elections in Ukraine as well as in Russia have shown that impoverished people are incapable of making sober decisions and voting responsibly in a popular election.

More than 35 years on, Washington is finally owning up to Project Azorian, a brazen mission from the days of high-stakes — and high-seas — Cold War rivalry.

In mid-January, the Garden Ring Road was choked with traffic as stunned motorists slowed down to gawp at a pornographic film playing on a 9-by-6 meter roadside video billboard. A hacker in Novorossiisk has been linked to the stunt.

Kadyrov had filed libel suits against Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Oleg Orlov, head of rights watchdog Memorial, and Novaya Gazeta — all having accused the Chechen leader of ordering kidnappings and killings in the North Caucasus republic.

Promises of prosperity for the 2014 Winter Olympics host city ring hollow for the residents of a small neighborhood near the local airport, who have been homeless since a garbage landslide almost two years ago.

The case promises to reignite Russian anger over U.S. adoptions, a delicate issue in U.S.-Russian relations in recent years, and could tangle efforts by U.S. President Barack Obama to "reset" ties that deteriorated under the previous administration.

Bloggers are seething over what they interpret as insensitive comments made by the company after one of its vice presidents, Anatoly Barkov, was involved in a car crash that killed two people. Some have called for a boycott of LUKoil gas stations and a popular rapper has written a song declaring that Barkov will go to hell.

The average fixed mortgage rate for ruble loans has fallen to a post-crisis low of 15.8 percent and the government is fighting for rates to decline even further.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin traveled to Tatarstan on Thursday to oversee the signing of two key auto deals — Fiat agreed to establish a joint-venture with Sollers, while Daimler is to boost its stake in KamAZ.

Considering the West to be Russia’s primary security threat is a throwback to the Cold War and runs counter to Obama’s reset policy.