Russia & CIS

According to currency market trade data, the Russian ruble fell against the dollar and euro after oil prices dropped.

Deputy Finance Minister said that Russia will not seek foreign loans as long as Western financial sanctions are in place.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said that Russian government expects that country's economy will growth in 2016 despite crisis.

State-of-the-art robotic demining systems have been put into service at Russia's Southern Military District, news reports said.

Ernesto Preatoni, an Italian real estate developer and investment guru with projects stretching from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, says that there's no time like the present to invest in Russia.

The severe cold spell motivated a resident of the Russian Siberian city of Omsk to transform his Soviet-made car into an off-road vehicle, the French TV channel TF1 reported.

Russia's navy will get 42 ships and supply vessels in 2016, Navy Ship Building Directorate head Captain 1st rank Vladimir Tryapichnikov said Saturday.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that both the West and Russia are interested in the resumption of such format of negotiations.

In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio admitted that he would love to play Vladimir Putin onscreen if provided with such an opportunity.

According to the managing partner of the British audit and consulting company EY (formerly Ernst & Young) Joe Watt said that Russia will never lose its global strategic importance.

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.