The Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut has docked at the International Space Station.
Russia has rejected EU calls for further sanctions against Iran in the wake of a UN reports that Tehran had experimented with nuclear weapon designs.
In a report derided by Iran and likely to stir tension in the Middle East, the IAEA says Tehran has been trying to design an atomic bomb.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde will be taking her European rescue talks to Russia in her first official foreign trip, before visiting China and Japan.
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/ 4 November 2011
Six volunteers have stepped out of an isolation module in Moscow after almost one and a half years in a simulated mission to Mars.
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/ 31 October 2011
A court awarded two Russian families $100 000 each in compensation from a maternity home that accidentally switched their daughters at birth.
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/ 18 October 2011
Russia has blamed a recent spate of disasters threatening the future of the International Space Station on negligence by rocket scientists.
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/ 13 October 2011
Stock exchanges from Brazil, Russia, India, Hong Kong and SA have unveiled a cross-listing agreement to increase economic partnerships.
Russian lawmakers are supporting a Kremlin-backed Bill allowing judges to order the chemical castration of some convicted child molesters.
The outgoing Russian president denies political rivalry with current prime minister, claiming he was happy to step aside.
Russia’s President Medvedev says ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin, whom he dramatically fired live on television this week, was "bored" of his job.
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/ 27 September 2011
Vladimir Putin’s strategy for a smooth return to the Kremlin appears to have gone off script with the departure of Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin.
Liberal minister says he will quit if Medvedev becomes prime minister after announcement that caught many off guard.
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/ 24 September 2011
Vladimir Putin declared on Saturday that he planned to reclaim the Russian presidency in an election next March.
A meeting of emerging economies will consider a Brazilian proposal to buy European bonds to help crisis-hit eurozone countries, Pravin Gordhan says.
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/ 21 September 2011
Demand for iron ore, copper and aluminium will double in the next 15 to 20 years, driven by the Brics economies, says Rio Tinto’s chief executive.
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/ 19 September 2011
The Brics emerging market powerhouses have already bought debt through the European Financial Stability Facility, says a Brazilian financial daily.
At least 44 people were killed when a Russian plane carrying hockey players to a match in Belarus crashed on takeoff near Moscow.
Triple suicide strikes in Chechnya left nine people dead and over 20 injured as the Russian Muslim region celebrated the end of Ramadan.
Russia has put forward "proposals" to build new nuclear power plants in Iran after the completion of the Bushehr project, local media has reported.
For 75 years the most famous Russian rugby player has been Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky, an escapee from the purges of the Soviet revolution.
The former president of the Soviet Union looks back at his role in the Communist Party.
New forms of fraud are emerging that are making bank cyber fraud even more lucrative than the drug trade, says an auditing expert.
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the US is living beyond its means and acts "like a parasite" on the global economy.
Divers pulled five more bodies from a tourist boat that sank in the Volga River two weeks ago, raising the death toll to 119.
SA has joined other Brics nations in a pledge to bring down the cost of high-quality medicine — and make it more accessible to the poor.
Russia banned has certain Egyptian seeds including fenugreek, after they were linked them to the deadly E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France.
As the US winds down its shuttle programme in a symbolic twist in space rivalry, Russia will gain control of access to the space station.
A second incident of racism against Roberto Carlos, where a banana was thrown at him during a league match in Russia, is being investigated.
Russia on Wednesday marked 70 years since the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany, an event that apparently caught Stalin totally unprepared.
A Russian passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames on a highway in north-western Russia on Monday night.
President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday added to the uncertainty surrounding Russia’s 2012 presidential polls, saying he wanted a second term.