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...>>>

U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators have reached an "agreement in principle" on the first nuclear-arms-reduction treaty in nearly two decades, administration and arms-control officials said Tuesday.

Russia and Ukraine's national security services traded espionage accusations on Tuesday, just days before Ukrainians vote in presidential polls.

Russian officials say a bomb explosion on railroad tracks in St. Petersburg injured one worker and is being considered a terrorist attack.

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

Senior members of the ruling United Russia party, which has a parliamentary majority, said they were planning to demand the resignation of Sergei Mironov, speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament over his criticism of polices conducted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

As Ukraine prepares to vote in a new president in an election run-off on Sunday, the BBC's Jamie Coomarasamy reports from Crimea, where people are ambivalent about their Ukrainian nationality.

The Russian Economic Development Ministry can now safely say that the end of the economic recession is just around the bend for Russia.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday urged the government to come up with a plan to make the energy-dependent country more attractive to foreign investors.