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Moscow demolishes illegal metro kiosks in night of long shovels

Moscow has begun the large-scale demolition of kiosks and small shopping centres. Sergei Shogurov, head of the capital’s real estate inspectorate

09/02/2016

Economy

To Russia with cash: Chinese tourists offset fall in Western visitors

Russia is enjoying a tourism boom of Chinese visitors who have become the largest group of foreign visitors with numbers more than doubling last year compared with 2014.

09/02/2016

Culture news

Russia's Pussy Riot mocks prosecutor general Yury Chaika in new video

Russian ‘punk’ band Pussy Riot has released a video for a new rap-like protest song. In ‘Chaika’, the all-girl collective takes on the Kremlin and

05/02/2016

Economy

Russian recession set to deepen says central bank

Russia's economy is set to dip deeper into recession according to the latest central bank forecasts as the Kremlin looks at selling stakes in state owned companies.

03/02/2016

Russia

Moscow's homeless living in sewers to escape the cold

Homelessness is on the rise in the capital as the Russian economy suffers from the falling price of oil, its main export.

31/01/2016

Russia

12 dead in suspected arson attack in Moscow

A criminal investigation is underway after fire crews found 12 bodies in the wreckage of a burning building in Moscow. Arson is suspected after the

31/01/2016

Economy

Russia to talk to OPEC about pumping less oil to boost prices

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has confirmed that Saudi Arabia had proposed oil producing countries cut production by up to 5 percent each in order to support weak oil prices.

28/01/2016

Business Line

Oil prices to stay low, Russia suffers

The World Bank has slashed its forecast for oil prices, saying the cost of a barrel of crude will stay near the current lows for the rest of 2016

27/01/2016

Economy

Hopes of a supply cut deal push up oil prices

Crude prices rose on Tuesday on hopes that OPEC and non-OPEC producers may be edging closer to a deal to pump less oil and address a supply glut.

26/01/2016

Russia

Moscow: Litvinenko report could 'poison' relations with Britain

Russia is rejecting the findings of the UK’s inquiry into the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, cautioning that it could “poison”

21/01/2016

Economy

Rouble hits new lows, Kremlin unruffled

The rouble slumped to new record lows on Thursday, threatening more hardship for ordinary Russians, but the Kremlin denied the currency was collapsing.

21/01/2016

Russia

Jews welcome in Russia, Putin tells Europe's Jewish leaders

Russian president Vladimir Putin has met with European Jewish leaders to discuss their concerns over rising anti-Semitism on the continent. During

19/01/2016

Economy

Russian government to decide where to cut spending after oil price fall

Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev has ordered the government to decide where spending can be significantly cut. This year’s federal budget was drawn up

15/01/2016

Russia

Ukraine pushing for return of Crimea

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he is seeking help from the EU and the US in securing the return of Crimea to Ukrainian sovereignty. The

15/01/2016

Sport

Wada report accuses former chief Diack of conspiracy and corruption

The second part of a report into corruption at World Athletics has accused former President Lamine Diack of being responsible for ‘‘organising and

14/01/2016

Russia

Moscow meeting: Russia and Japan discuss North-South Korea tensions

North and South Korea were on the agenda in Moscow at a meeting of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the vice president of Japan’s ruling

12/01/2016

Economy

Holiday hangover hits rouble as speculators claw at Russia

The Russian rouble tanked again on Monday as the week opened with the Russian currency under severe market pressure. A 10-day holiday period in

11/01/2016

Russia

Orthodox Christians begin Christmas celebrations

An estimated 350,000 Orthodox Christians have celebrated Christmas Eve in Moscow, with Patriarch Kirill overseeing the main event in the Russian

06/01/2016

Russia

Russian ruble scrapes new low, no happier for 2016

The Russian ruble on the last currency trading day of the year has hit a new 2015 low against the US dollar, at one point falling to 73.20 to the

30/12/2015

Russia

Chechens charged in Nemtsov murder

Russian prosecutors have formally charged four Chechens in connection with the February assassination of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. Another man

29/12/2015

Russia

Russia enforces stricter currency exchange rules

Russia has put into force measures to keep a closer eye on exchanges from rubles to foreign currency. The Russian Central Bank has decreed that

28/12/2015

Russia

Russia issues banknote dedicated to Crimea

Russia has issued a new banknote dedicated to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula it annexed last year. It is a move that is certain to anger Kyiv, which

23/12/2015

Sport

Russia's sports minister Mutko denies doping cover-ups

Russia’s sports minister Vitaly Mutko has defended his country’s anti-doping practices, strongly denying it had anything to do with the covering-up

23/12/2015

Russia

Khodorkovsky: international arrest warrant issued

Déjà vu for the former energy tycoon?

23/12/2015

Russia

Police search offices of Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian police have raided the offices of the pro-democracy movement founded by Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, less than two weeks after he was

22/12/2015

Russia

Russia to hit Ukraine with food embargo over new free trade deal with EU

Russia says a ban on Western food products will also apply to Ukraine from the start of next year when a free trade agreement comes into force

21/12/2015