Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday denounced Britain for making insulting demands that betrayed outdated colonial thinking, in comments likely to escalate a row over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
Russia is sending a mini-submarine to explore the ocean floor below the North Pole and find evidence to support its claims to Arctic territory.
Russia's security services appeared to have got embroiled in a fresh row with a European country yesterday after Spain's intelligence service arrested an alleged double agent whom it accused of treason.
The Russian republic's chess-loving ruler counts Chuck Norris and the Dalai Lama as friends and claims he was once abducted by aliens. But there is a darker side to his regime.
Gazprom will place two Eurobond tranches denominated in U.S. dollars for ten and 30 years.