MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Around 400 police are to provide security for a "Day of the People's Fury" opposition rally in Moscow on Saturday, a police representative said. The rally is against the social policies of the Moscow

MOSCOW REGION, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev opened talks with his Belarus counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, on Saturday by saying that the two leaders would discuss a joint position to the global financial crisis. Lukashenko arrived in

MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Capital inflow to Russia for the first nine months of 2008 was around $800 million, a top Central Bank official said on Saturday. "This is a provisional figure," Alexei Ulyukayev, the Central Bank first

MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Central Bank will not allow sharp fluctuations in the ruble exchange rate, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Saturday. Speaking to journalists, Shuvalov also said the share prices of Russian

MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Five people were detained for throwing smoke bombs on Saturday during a "Day of the People's Fury" opposition rally in Moscow on Saturday, a police representative said. "Five young people were detained during the

MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - If results go their way, by Monday evening Rubin FC could be just one win away from a famous and unexpected first Russian title after beating Krilya Sovetov 3-0 on Saturday. Rubin's Argentine defender

MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Daylight saving time ends in Russia in the early hours of Sunday, when the country will put clocks back one hour, giving people extra hour in bed. At 3:00 a.m. local time on Sunday

KAZAN, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Four people were killed and five injured on Saturday when an explosion partially destroyed a gunpowder factory in Kazan, in Russia's Volga area republic of Tatarstan, a regional emergencies spokesman said. The explosion occurred

RUSSIA * Ordinary Russians will be not be greatly affected by the current global financial crisis, Russia's Deputy Finance Minister said * Young Russians are less concerned than their counterparts in other countries about climate change, according to a new

Although the federal television channels refrain from using the word "crisis" for reasons that can easily be deciphered, Russia's population is well aware of the economic disaster that is presently unfolding. Although part of the blame can certainly be ascribed

Russia's chief rabbi Berel Lazar caused a commotion among Israeli Jewish clerics in early October by giving an interview to the Hanaaseh Vehanishma publication, in which he indirectly discouraged Aliyah, or immigration to Israel, among Russian Jews. He argued that

In response to the financial breakdown, the State Duma has been taking speedy monetary decisions, on advice from high-ranking officials, without giving them much thought or subjecting them to much scrutiny or debate. But as time proves these measures to

On October 15, 2008, Azerbaijan held a presidential election. This election concludes yet another election cycle in the Southern Caucasus, and compared to Armenia and Georgia, Azerbaijan seems like a true haven of peace and stability. However, juxtaposing the "democratic"

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Patriarch Alexy II, the head of theRussian Orthodox Church, held two important meetings, in which all of the members of Russia's political elite, including President Dmitry Medvedev, took part. The patriarch used these opportunities to both

The Russian nationalist group called the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) has applied to the Moscow Mayor's office for permission to hold the fourth annual "Russian March" on November 4, the Day of National Unity. While the threat of extreme

The decision of the international donor conference in Brussels to donate $4.55 billion for the reconstruction of Georgia's infrastructure, damaged during the five-day-long war at the beginning of August, sparked controversy both in Russia and in some of the EU

With the U.S. presidential campaign in its final stage, Moscow looks forward to working with a new U.S. administration. Barring a catastrophic event on U.S. soil, democrat Sen. Barack Obama is poised to win the presidential election in a landslide.

All talk of Russia as an island of stability has dried up by now - it is obvious that it is not. Russia's stock markets have fallen harder than most, and the newspapers are full of stories about bank "consolidation."

When the former British ambassador to Russia Tony Brenton asked the authorities for permission to renovate his residence, he expected the latter to cease this opportunity to restore the original architecture of Fyodor Shechtel. As a part of the reconstruction

In part of a growing public sentiment in support of jailed lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina, over 50,000 people have signed an internet petition requesting a pardon from Dmitri Medvedev. translation by theotherrussia.org.