Early evidence suggests that an explosion on a trolleybus in the southern city of Volgograd, which occurred Monday morning, was carried out by a male suicide bomber, a
source in the law enforcement agencies told Itar-Tass.
Head of the Russian Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) Vladimir Uyba said Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died a natural death and no repeated examination was indispensable.
The release from prison of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and two members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot drew worldwide attention to complaints about political prisoners in Russia. Although none of the three were convicted of political crimes, the taint of political vengeance hung strongly on all their cases.
US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed the Friday release of Russia's most famous prisoner and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, while expressing concerns over the country's selective prosecution.
The United States has not changed its position on Iran's possible external participant in the Geneva II Peace Conference scheduled for January 22, 2014, Russian Deputy Foreign
Minister Gennady Gatilov said ahead of the Russia-U.S.-U.N. meeting.
Russia has really helped Ukraine, in contrast to vain promises and insolent demands of the West, speaker of RF State Duma (lower house of parliament) Sergei Naryshkin said on Thursday, opening an 'Open Tribune' meeting.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and British Ambassador to Russia Tim Barrow exchanged views on pressing international issues with a focus on the Iranian nuclear programme and Syrian chemical disarmament
Russia's last facility for the destruction of chemical weapons inherited from the former
Soviet Union will be commissioned in the settlement of Kizner, the Republic of Udmutria, on Thursday.
All effective contracts between Russia and Syria, including those in the sphere of military-technical cooperation are being honoured, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
Bishkek will host the sixteenth meeting of the Russian-Kyrgyz intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific, technical and humanitarian cooperation on Tuesday.
Moscow does not doubt the large-scale rallies in Ukraine have been staged long beforehand, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.
Thirty-seven citizens of Russia and other CIS member-states, mainly women and children, have arrived in Moscow from Syria onboard an Il-62 plane, Russian Emergencies Ministry spokesperson Irina Rossius told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
The 2013 exercises have confirmed the reliability of the country's nuclear shield and the growing capabilities of the Air and Space Defence Force, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Defence Ministry's board on Tuesday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was hopeful to discuss with Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman key regional and international issues.