MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) - A real estate agency director has been robbed of 1.4 million rubles ($47,650) in a traffic accident in central St. Petersburg, a police source in Russia's second largest city said on Wednesday. "Two persons

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom is unsure whether Ukraine will fulfill its commitments on the transit of gas to Europe after January 1, the official spokesman for the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday. Gazprom earlier on Tuesday

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has invited U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to launch a joint effort to deal with global problems. In a seasonal message to Obama released by the Kremlin press service on Tuesday,

SEVERODVINSK, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - Sea trials of Russia's first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine have been postponed until spring 2009, a high-ranking Navy source said on Tuesday. (Russia launches new nuclear submarine - Image gallery) The fourth-generation Yury Dolgoruky

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law constitutional amendments extending presidential and parliamentary terms to six and five years, respectively, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. The amendments, proposed by Medvedev during his first

adds details in para 3) MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - One cash courier was killed and another injured by armed robbers in the south of Moscow on Tuesday evening, police said. "Unknown assailants opened fire on the cash couriers

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - Terminally ill ex-Yukos official Vasily Aleksanyan has been released at 50 million ruble ($1.8 billion) bail, his lawyer said on Tuesday. "Guards have been removed from Aleksanyan's hospital room an hour ago," Yelena Lvova

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Communist Party has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights over the results of last December's State Duma elections in Mordovia, the party said Tuesday. The communists said they

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian prime minister signed a resolution on cutting oil export duty further down to $119.1 per ton from January 1 amid declining world oil prices, the government's press office said on Tuesday. Vladimir

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - The family of a young Chechen woman has appealed a court ruling granting parole to the former Russian military officer convicted of her murder, a website of the Chechen government said on Tuesday. Yury

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - One cash courier was killed and another injured by armed robbers in the south of Moscow on Tuesday evening, police said. "Unknown assailants opened fire on the cash couriers when they were leaving a