Some of Russia’s leading writers said they had declined invitations to meet Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the day of his 57th birthday.
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/ 29 September 2009
Russia remains suspicious about Washington’s new anti-missile plans, the country’s envoy to Nato said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 September 2009
A Russian journalist has gone into hiding after receiving threats over an article that criticised the country’s Soviet past, a website said on Monday.
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/ 20 September 2009
South Africa’s delegation to ‘Climate Week’ aims
to negotiate for financial pledges from developed
countries, writes Yolandi Groenewald
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/ 18 September 2009
Nato proposed a new era of cooperation with the US and Russia on Friday, calling for joint work on missile defence systems.
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/ 15 September 2009
Organising a conference on democracy was always going to be a challenge for the Kremlin.
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/ 10 September 2009
The plot thickened on Thursday over a secret trip by Israel’s prime minister, as his office admitted it had misled the public about his whereabouts.
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/ 9 September 2009
The stark social cost of Russia’s economic crisis was exposed when new statistics revealed a 30% increase in the number of people living in poverty.
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/ 8 September 2009
Moscow on Tuesday denied reports a cargo ship that went missing in the Atlantic had been carrying a Russian air-defence system to Iran.
Divers on Tuesday searched flooded wreckage for 64 people still missing after an accident at Russia’s biggest hydroelectric plant.
The EU on Monday condemned a deadly bomb attack in Russia’s restive southern republic of Ingushetia.
President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday insisted he alone took all the decisions in the run-up to Russia’s war with Georgia.
Russia has released a suspected organised crime boss who is wanted by the US for fraud and racketeering, a Russian official said on Monday.
A Chinese delegation left on Wednesday for talks in Moscow on the fate of 150 merchants seized by Russian authorities in a smuggling crackdown.
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States wanted a strong, prosperous but also democratic Russia.
US President Barack Obama and Kremlin leader Dmitry Medvedev agreed a target for cuts in nuclear arms and a deal to let US troops fly across Russia.
Businessmen are expected to use a Russia-US business summit on Tuesday to press Moscow to improve conditions for Western companies operating there.
The war is over. Russia on Friday announced the end of counterterrorist operations in Chechnya, which should see the withdrawal of 20 000 troops.
Russia’s economic slowdown has shredded the net worth of its richest people by more than 70% in the last year.
Prosecutors on Tuesday were to present new charges against Russia’s former richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Moscow warned on Monday that the EU’s energy security might suffer if Russia was not consulted on a Ukrainian gas ”master plan”.
Standard Bank bought a third of Russia’s number two investment bank, Troika Diago, in an asset swap and cash deal on Thursday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow would halt gas deliveries to Ukraine if payment is not received by Saturday.
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/ 16 February 2009
Russia’s super-rich are also super-losers, according to a business magazine, which said the top 10 wealthiest had lost two-thirds of their fortunes.
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/ 8 February 2009
The Russian rouble plunged to its lowest level against the American dollar in 11 years this week as oil prices plummet and economic activity slows.
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/ 27 January 2009
Russia edged closer to a recession last month as half a million people lost their jobs and capital investment fell for the first time in nine years.
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/ 20 January 2009
An abrupt rise in Russian gas prices will undermine Ukraine’s economic and energy security and leave some enterprises on the brink of insolvency.
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/ 20 January 2009
Russia said it would resume gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after a Moscow-Kiev contract row cut flows.
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/ 19 January 2009
Russia and Ukraine signed a 10-year gas supply deal on Monday to clear the way for the resumption of supplies to a freezing Europe.
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/ 18 January 2009
Gas supplies to Europe will resume "shortly", Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
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/ 15 January 2009
Russia’s refusal to pump gas to Europe and Ukraine’s reluctance to let any gas through left European leaders spluttering in fury on Wednesday.
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/ 14 January 2009
The EU raised the stakes with Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday by threatening to ditch them as gas suppliers and to promote court action against them.