Russia & CIS

When peace finally comes to Syria, Russia is open to investing in the Syrian economy and infrastructure, Ziyad Sabsabi, the official representative of Russia’s Chechen Republic in Moscow, said during his official visit to Syria.

The stakes are getting higher in the battle between the state and the Internet giants.

President Vladimir Putin's aide Vladislav Surkov, known in the 2010s as the "gray cardinal" of the Kremlin, met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland on Friday near the western city of Kalinigrad, Russian media reported on Friday.

Russia has failed to adapt to economic and technological change and has fallen into the ranks of "downshifter" countries that will catastrophically lag behind their more advanced rivals, the head of the country's largest bank said Friday.

A Russian citizen has been released after being detained by Turkish police in connection to a terrorist attack in Istanbul earlier this week, a correspondent for Russia's Kommersant business daily said Friday.

A statement by Chechen leader Kadyrov branding the Russian opposition "enemies of the people" has evolved into a whirlwind of allegations and misinformation.

The number of Russians that believe they would be able to find a good job if they lost their current position fell by 10 percent last year, the results of the poll published Friday revealed.

Saudi Arabia cut off diplomatic and trade ties with Iran in retaliation for the provocative ransacking of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran by what appeared to be a government-directed mob.

A team of St. Petersburg lawyers and journalists take on high treason cases and continue the crusade against the abuse of freedom of information in Russia.

A report has detailed "embedded" corruption at the governing body of world athletics and suggested collusion between Russian and IAAF officials at the highest levels in a coverup of mass doping in Russian sport.

China, the world's most populous country, might have slipped through its fingers, but with Russia Netflix pocketed the largest country by landmass and the promise of tapping into a booming online market.

The Russian animated film "We Can't Live Without Cosmos" has been shortlisted for an Academy Award.

If the air space in the zone of combat operations on the territory of Ukraine had been closed from the ground level without any restrictions in altitudes, the accident would not have happened. Russian officials are convinced that Ukrainian authorities deliberately concealed or misrepresented real threats to the safety of civil aviation flights

The sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia dropped by 35.7 percent last year, the Automobile Manufacturers Committee of the Association of European Businesses (AEB) said in a statement Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama conducted a telephone conversation on Wednesday for the first time since June 2015, according to a statement by the Kremlin's official website.

Russia has replaced Israel as the country that "poses the biggest threat to Turkey," according to an opinion poll conducted by a Turkish University.

Fifty-three textbooks published with the support of the Soros Foundation - an NGO deemed "undesirable" in Russia last year - were burnt at a college in Russia's northern republic of Komi, the 7x7 local news website reported Wednesday, citing an official letter from the regional Education Ministry.

New fears over China's economy and sharp falls in the price of oil have worsened the outlook for Russia as it tries to emerge from recession.

Russia started developing a new anti-aircraft artillery system that is said to replace well-known "Shilka" and "Tunguska" systems. The new anti-aircraft artillery system is to have the caliber of 57 millimeters. Serial production of anti-aircraft guns on mobile chassis started during the First World War

Four leading European companies are vying to build Gazprom’s North Stream 2 gas pipeline, the Moscow-based Kommersant newspaper wrote on Wednesday, citing sources at Russia’s gas giant in Moscow.