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MOSCOW - A noisy rally by supporters of Mikhail Khodorkovsky outside the court ended in a brawl Monday, with police detaining 28 people, including Yabloko deputy head Sergei Mitrokhin, and beat former chess champion Garry Kasparov with batons. About ... |
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MOSCOW - A Moscow court began reading on Monday a verdict of several hundred pages in the state's case against Yukos founders Mikhail Khodorkovsky and ... |
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The St. Petersburg city government last week approved a bill that is intended to return to religious organizations their property that was nationalized after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Under the bill, religious buildings and those used for religious purposes, which are currently assigned to ... |
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Under pressure from human rights advocates, the City Prosecutor's Office has decided to open a criminal case over anti-Semitic articles printed in newspapers Za Russkoe Delo and Rus Pravoslavnaya. It had previously rejected opening a criminal case ... |
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A leader of the anti-Kremlin political movement Iduschiye Bez Putina, or Walking Without Putin, was detained by the police on Saturday while he was trying ... |
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Governor: I'm Staying ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Governor Valentina Matviyenko dismissed speculations about her possible relocation to Moscow, Interfax reported. Speaking to the agency in Beijing, shortly before she took the plane to Shanghai, where ... |
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 City authorities are developing a grandiose $21 million plan to revive the Oranienbaum former royal estate at Lomonosov, about 30 kilometers west of St. ... |
 MOSCOW - Few personify the country's turbulent banking history as well as Nikolai Plotnikov, a 74-year-old retired physics teacher who joined a crowd of angry protesters in front of the Central Bank on Thursday morning. Leaning on his cane as a light ... |
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MOSCOW - Two LDPR deputies on Thursday pressed for former Nuclear Power Minister Yevgeny Adamov be sent back to Russia and darkly warned that if the United ... |
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MOSCOW - The Constitutional Court has opened the door to suspects being tried twice for the same crime, even after an acquittal, by issuing a ruling that brings the law into line with Western norms but could allow authorities to muzzle opposition and rights activists. The Constitutional Court on Wednesday ... |
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Chinese investments into St. Petersburg may top $12 billion by 2020, Governor Valntina Matviyenko, said Monday at a news conference. Besides the $1.2 billion Baltic Pearl project, the investment agreement that the governor signed Saturday with the Shanghai ... |
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Among rising summer travel activity in the city, a local ship operator is launching a new high-speed catamaran route between St. Petersburg and Finland. ... |
 Avtomir, the largest Russian car dealership chain, opened its first St. Petersburg branch Monday. The company said it expects to reach a $50 million turnover at the city location, and sell about 4,500 cars per year. The new dealership targets a middle ... |
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Lenenergo Cuts Losses ST. PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Regional electricity firm Lenenergo said Saturday that it had cut its net loss to 429 million rubles ... |
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MOSCOW - Carlyle group, the world's largest equity fund manager whose board once boasted former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has effectively closed its Moscow office and canceled plans for a $300 million Russia investment fund. The group cited Russia's ... |
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Russia Protects Pirates Moscow (Bloomberg) - Russian officials are protecting the piracy of films, music, business software and books, helping make ... |
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Prosecutors have opened a criminal case against unidentified managers at the diamond monopoly Alrosa for allegedly embezzling 153 million rubles ($5.47 million), a spokesman for the Prosecutor General's Office said Saturday. Prosecutors will examine ... |
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Russia has dropped four places in an annual study conducted to assess the competitiveness of 60 economies around the world. The World Competitiveness ... |
 Advertising scandals have arisen between mobile operators MTS and Vimpelcom, which trades as Beeline, several times in recent years. Mobile TeleSystems hasn't missed a chance to have a dig at its competitor with the help of video clips parodying it broadcasted ... |
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The city may be close to meeting one of its longest standing needs - building a world-class football stadium. Politicians have said all the right things ... |
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A consortium of Finnish companies has unveiled a joint plan to expand investment into the Russian and Baltic real estate markets. SRV Group, a leading Finnish construction company, together with a group of high net-worth shareholders, established Vicus ... |
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Most people associate accounting reform with moving to international accounting standards. However, the problem is really far broader than this. The accounting ... |
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MOSCOW - The billboard appears at kilometer 5 of the post-Soviet boulevard of big-ticket dreams that is the Rublyovskoye Shosse. "Any house," the sign by a prestigious homebuilder proclaims. "Helicopter as a bonus." Only in the ... |
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MOSCOW - The governor of Penza has won President Vladimir Putin's approval for an extended term, while embattled Altai region Governor Mikhail Yevdokimov ... |
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The commonplace view of the earth from an airplane at 35,000 feet - a vista that would have astounded Dickens or Darwin - can be instructive when we contemplate the fate of our earth. We see faintly, or imagine we can, the spherical curve of the horizon ... |
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There can be no doubt that the Russian medical system needs to be changed: it is costly, ineffective and fails to fulfill its fundamental goals - to keep ... |
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The next president of the United States was on the road last week, throwing red meat about "moral issues" to a baying crowd of Bushist Party faithful - while simultaneously trying to cut off medical support for a 6-year-old girl his agents had previously tried to kill. Yes, it was Jeb Bush, ... |
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U.S. sanctions on Iran WASHINGTON (AP) - As Iran appears to move closer to resuming nuclear activities, support has been quietly building in Congress for new U.S. sanctions, including penalties that could affect multinational companies and this ... |
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Zenit Thwarts CSKA MOSCOW (Reuters, SPT) - CSKA Moscow's morale suffered a blow before its first European final when they lost 1-0 at FC Zenit St. ... |
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