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.

Russians are on trial in the United States in at least three separate cases involving gun crimes, including a waiting-room murder, a Kalashnikov-armed gang of thieves and a repeat-offender bank robber.

Despite President Dmitry Medvedev's rhetoric for smaller parties to be fairly represented in elections, regional authorities have continued to back the ruling United Russia party and derail the campaigns of other parties ahead of Sunday's elections, opposition activists and election monitors said.

Moscow's traffic police chief was called into the State Duma on Thursday to field questions on how his agency was handling a series of major scandals, most recently the use of civilians' vehicles as a "human shield" in a car chase.

Mykola Azarov says he will invite the IMF “as soon as possible” and win approval for a realistic version of the much-delayed 2010 budget.

Lithuania celebrated the 20th anniversary of its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union on Thursday, recalling the seminal events that set the Baltic nation on a path to freedom and helped lead to the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

Federal tax, customs and financial markets officials have set their sights on banks' client confidentiality, which analysts said could shake confidence in the entire banking system.

Oil deals and diamond contracts are on the docket for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in India, where he is scheduled to arrive Thursday.

The future of the Russian retail market remains unclear, but there will be no significant worsening of the situation, according to a survey released by Ernst & Young on Thursday.

Mykola Azarov, who was appointed prime minister on Thursday, is an old ally of new President Viktor Yanukovych and served as a stop-gap acting prime minister during the 2004 Orange Revolution turmoil.

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.

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.

Iran has given Russian commercial pilots working in the Islamic Republic two months to leave the country because it has no need for them, Transportation Minister Hamid Behbahani said.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.