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 won support for Rosatom to build a dozen ultrasafe nuclear reactors in India, part of more than $10 billion in deals in energy, arms, telecoms and other cooperation signed during his visit Friday.

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.

Aeroflot passengers complained Sunday that they had to sleep on the floor and chairs at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after bad weather delayed their flight by more than 24 hours.

Thousands of Georgians panicked Saturday night when a pro-government television station aired a hoax that President Mikheil Saakashvili had been killed and Russians tanks had invaded their country.

Moscow's top doctor said Friday that smoking-related diseases were growing and warned that teenage smoking was leading to a "national catastrophe."

A total of $411 million flowed into Russian funds over the week ending March 11, the highest level since October, far outstripping investment flows into Russia's BRIC peers, according to fund tracker EPFR Global.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia's new military doctrine is outdated and "does not reflect the real world."

Early official figures indicated a high turnout Sunday in elections that are seen as a test of President Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to democracy.

The Foreign Ministry indignantly dismissed U.S. criticism of Russia's human rights record Friday, saying the United States was guilty of its own abuses from Afghanistan to "the streets of America."

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As public opinion polls show that police are among the country's least trusted institutions and incidents of police corruption are reported in the media almost daily, those enlisted to protect and serve struggle with their own battles to make a living.