Jailed former oligarch given seven more years for theft and money laundering after widely condemned trial.
Britain and the US led condemnation on Monday after the Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner were found guilty.
Jailed Russian ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of money laundering and theft of billions of dollars on Monday.
A Russian judge began reading the verdict on Monday in jailed former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s politically charged second trial.
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/ 24 December 2010
South Africa has received a formal invitation to join the Brazil, Russia, India and China (Bric) group of large emerging economies.
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/ 22 December 2010
Russia on Wednesday blamed "unfriendly" behaviour by Britain for sparking the tit-for-tat expulsion of a diplomat from each side.
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/ 10 December 2010
Nowhere can math the historic sweep of this post-Soviet World Cup — and the trains are great.
Nato has drawn up plans to defend the Baltic states against Russian threats, US diplomatic cables released on Tuesday by WikiLeaks showed.
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/ 7 December 2010
The US, South Korea and Japan all urged China to help rein in its ally North Korea and vowed solidarity in defending Seoul from any further attacks.
Russian media reported that human error could have caused the aircraft’s engines failuer and forced it to crash land.
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/ 4 December 2010
A Russian plane carrying 155 passengers rolled off a runway while making an emergency landing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Saturday, killing two people and injuring dozens, Interfax news agency reported. The Tupolev liner, operated by Dagestan Airlines, took off from Vnukovo Airport, also outside Moscow, and made an emergency landing after all three of […]
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/ 2 December 2010
Not even the absence of Vladimir Putin could derail Russia’s World Cup bid as Fifa voters showed fondness for taking football to new frontiers.
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/ 2 December 2010
Russia and the tiny Gulf state of Qatar were awarded the 2018 and 2022 Soccer World Cups on Thursday.
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/ 18 November 2010
Fifa suspends two members of its executive committee for one to three years by its probe into alleged mis-dealings in the 2018 and 2022 bidding
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/ 15 November 2010
Two young men beat a Russian journalist unconscious outside his office on November 8, 48 hours after another reporter was attacked with an iron bar.
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/ 10 November 2010
Inmates at an infamous Moscow prison are to receive comforts including sunbeds to improve conditions, officials said Wednesday.
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/ 3 November 2010
Russian fertiliser company Phosagro is reportedly planning to bid for Potash Corp, rivaling BHP Billiton’s $39-billion offer.
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/ 25 October 2010
Russia has agreed to help Venezuela build its first nuclear power station in a move likely to raise concerns.
Militants stormed Parliament in Russia’s conflict-torn Chechnya on Tuesday before being killed in a bloody stand-off with security forces.
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/ 29 September 2010
In a withering attack on President Dmitry Medvedev, Moscow’s ousted mayor Yury Luzhkov accused him of promoting a climate of repression
Two blasts hit Russia’s Caucasus on Tuesday, one killing a policeman at a checkpoint and the other wounding about two dozen at a street cafe.
Russia fought a deadly battle on Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites.
Russian troops dug a 8km long canal to keep fires caused by a record heatwave away from a nuclear arms site, local media said on Saturday.
Russia firefighters on Monday battled to prevent the worst summer wildfires in a generation from claiming more lives as 34 people were confirmed dead.
Almost half of inmates in Russia’s notorious prison system are ill, many infected with HIV or with tuberculosis.
The biggest spy swap since the end of the Cold War was under way on Friday as Russia and the United States prepared to exchange 14 agents.
The US has laid charges against alleged members of a Kremlin spy ring, as Russia and the US were said to be planning a Cold War-style prisoner swap.
Spy affair a deliberate attempt to undermine improved US-Russia relations, says Moscow.
The Russian espionage drama intensfied on Wednesday as one of the suspects in the alleged "deep cover" spy ring skipped bail in Cyprus.
Russia and the United States sought on Wednesday to cool a heated scandal sparked by the arrest of 11 suspected Kremlin spies.
Russia and the US face their most serious diplomatic crisis of the Obama era after the Kremlin denounced the arrest of 10 US-based Russian spies.
Clad in a blue jumpsuit and waving, crew member Sukhrob Kamolov quipped "See you in 520 days!" before hopping into sealed-off chambers.