A Russian animal tamer has set a new Guinness record, standing on two horses running side by side, while his two women assistants stood one on top of another on his shoulders.

Edgard Zapashny set the

A drunk and naked driver lost control during driving in Moscow and smashed 17 cars, including four police vehicles, police said on Sunday.

The unnamed man, who was drunk and driving a Renault Megan c

Moody's changed its outlook of the Russian banking system to negative from stable due to a weak global recovery and market volatility that has helped cause a jump in investor capital flight.

The glob

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday sought to defend his controversial plan to seek a third mandate as president, saying Russia needed stability and was only a few steps from a return to t

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he wants to bring ex-Soviet states into a 'Eurasian Union' in an article which outlined his first foreign policy initiative as he prepares to return to the

A Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile has failed a test launch, Russia's Space Forces confirmed on Wednesday.

The missile was launched on Tuesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 800 km from M

Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin was ousted on Monday after rebelling against a plan to install President Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister when Vladimir Putin returns to the Kremlin in 2012.

K

A mass grave containing the bodies of over 1,270 people killed by Muammar Gaddafi's forces has been found near Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, local media reported on Sunday.

"We are dealing with more t

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday stunningly announced that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should return to the Kremlin in 2012 elections for a new six-year mandate.

Medvedev told the annu

Russian movie critics and filmmakers expressed bewilderment on Tuesday after the country picked a critically-panned film by veteran pro-Kremlin director Nikita Mikhalkov as its entry for the Oscars.