After the Great Russian Shakeup this past Monday, pundits and analysts added up the personnel scores in the Clan War tournament, and came to pretty much the same happy conclusions: the "liberals" won out; the siloviki lost; the Clan War

A hunger strike by workers of the Lobinsky biochemical plant entered its third week, after demands for back pay were not heeded by management.

Prime minister Vladimir Putin said at the meeting in the Leningrad region that the Russian government is working on a number of tax preferences for oil companies, including reduction of mineral extraction tax rate [Russian: NDPI]. Putin believes, the measures

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev replaced the Federal Security Service's (FSB) longtime director Nikolai Patrushev with a veteran security agent Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB's economic security division, who, analysts said, could tackle economic crimes with gusto and strengthen Medvedev's

On May 20, deputy head of Rostekhnadzor and member of the Association of Oil and Gas Equipment Manufacturers, Nikolay Kutyin will present at the conference "Oil and Gas Equipment Standardization" (STANDARTNEFTEGAZ-2008). The conference will be held in Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel,

For the first time, the leadership of Russia's judicial system have admitted that they receive direct pressure from the presidential administration.

Russian Athletics News. Nailya Yulamanova won the women's division of the Prague Marathon held on 11 May clocking 2:31:43

MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian delegation will continue talks on the country's accession to the WTO in Geneva on May 19, Moscow's chief WTO negotiator Maxim Medvedkov said on Tuesday. During the talks, expected to continue until