It is our tradition to welcome the new year according to the Russian Orthodox tradition on the 13th of January. Together, we will hail the New Year with a glass of vodka at 22.00 hours when in Moscow the clock strikes 12...>>>

On June 21, 2012 the Association for International Arbitration will host an international arbitration conference on CURRENT ISSUES IN ARBITRATION IN CIS COUNTRIES. Speakers from various CIS jurisdictions will discuss a range of issues related to arbitration in the region. The participants will particularly focus on Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine...>>>

Russia plans to equip all of its missiles with a new warhead which was successfully tested on Saturday, from 2008, its Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister.

Investigators detained the daughter of ousted Kyrgyz leader Askar Akayev for questioning Monday as a witness in criminal inquiries against her husband and brother, the prosecutor general's Office said.

Russia on Monday launched one of the largest anti-terrorism drills in recent years in its troubled south, involving 32,000 personnel from the police, intelligence and military branches of the security forces.

President Viktor Yushchenko appealed to the international community for financial help Monday, two days before the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, to aid the region surrounding the nuclear plant.

Relatives of Polish soldiers executed by Joseph Stalin's secret police in one of the Second World War's most infamous massacres are to take Russia to the European Court of Human Rights to try to make it disclose the full truth about the killings.

Use of gas against terrorists during the Moscow theatre siege was justified, but the rescue operation afterwards was poorly planned and implemented...>>>

The Russian state-run gas company Gazprom wants to join the Dutch energy market. Minister of Economic Affairs Laurens Jan Brinkhorst says a takeover is not in question, although the Russians are interested in investing in the Netherlands.

Russia's planned oil pipeline to Asia will help cut deliveries to Europe, which is currently being oversupplied with Russian crude, the head of Russia's pipeline monopoly Transneft told a newspaper.

Take any week of the year, and you are sure to find a top executive from the Russian state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom spending more time in a European capital than at headquarters in Moscow.

Russian Economy Ministry hopes that the protocols concluding Russia's WTO accession talks with Australia and Colombia will be signed in May 2006.

More than 500 years after he is thought to have died, Russian experts believe they have found the remains of the inspirational medieval icon painter Andrei Rublev, and intend to use them to build up a better idea of what he looked like.