Extortion by corrupt officials in Russia has gotten so bad that some Western multinationals are considering pulling out altogether, the head of a U.S. anti-bribery group said in an interview.

The "black box" from a LUKoil executive's Mercedes involved in a fatal crash last month will be sent to Germany for analysis, a source close to the carmaker's Russian office said.

Officials broke ground Thursday on a much-delayed 9-hectare development project that will bring the NBA's New Jersey Nets, owned by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, to Brooklyn.

Lax penalties for airlines, and Russia's harsh weather conditions, make delays on domestic flights an all-too-frequent occurrence. But passengers do have some rights if they find themselves stuck in Departures.

United Russia party swept regional elections over the weekend, while the Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia won seats in all eight regional legislatures.

Lev Chernoi has turned to property development, with an investment in a 380 million euro ($522 million) apartment and hotel complex to be built on the site of the Mir hotel on Novy Arbat.

Hermitage Capital's legal opponents have stepped up their efforts to eradicate evidence that may expose the people behind one of the country's largest tax frauds, the company said Monday.

One by one, public developers are announcing strategy changes and unfreezing projects that were suspended because of the economic crisis.

Western envoys on Monday condemned a fake news report in Georgia that Russian tanks had entered the capital, wading into a dispute that has exposed deep divisions over opposition attempts to mend ties with Moscow.

With expectations that the rental market for elite housing is returning to life, owners are stepping back in and asking high prices, but demand has not yet recovered from its record fall last year.

Many believe that Moscow should have copied China’s reforms. But what made China’s reforms a success was inapplicable to Russia.

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.

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

Forbes has released its global billionaires list, which has steel magnate Vladimir Lisin ranked as the world's 32nd richest person with $15.8 billion.

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.

Institutions are corrupt to the core, infrastructure is collapsing, innovation is meager, and investment is evaporating.

Instead of pouring money and energy into gas pipelines that are carrying less gas every year, why doesn’t the government develop Russia’s chemical industry?

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.

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.

Some construction workers complain that they are going hungry after pawning their documents and valuables to get food at grocery stores, while sympathetic locals have organized a soup kitchen.

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.

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 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.

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.

Google and Russian Railways invite web surfers on a virtual journey across Russia aboard the legendary Moscow-Vladivostok train.

Novolipetsk Steel chairman Vladimir Lisin surpassed last year's leader, Onexim Group president Mikhail Prokhorov, and runner-up Roman Abramovich, to top a Russia rich list for the first time.

Greece's debt trouble may speed up construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline, as Moscow and Athens vowed Tuesday to move forward on the project.

Moscow has a right to protect its own security, but it does not have the right to interfere in the affairs of its neighbors.

Many believe that Moscow should have copied China’s reforms. But what made China’s reforms a success was inapplicable to Russia.