India, China and Russia will discuss regional and international issues and ways to deepen cooperation among them during a crucial trilateral meeting in Moscow on Friday.

"The three foreign ministers

Twelve people died on Tuesday when a night time fire tore through a two-story Moscow market warehouse that was being used by migrant workers from a former Soviet republic as a temporary residence.

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Unidentified gangsters have stolen 5.6 million roubles intended for the salary of workers of the territorial election committee in south-eastern Moscow, a source in the Moscow law enforcement agencies

Russia's protest movement against Vladimir Putin on Saturday rallied several thousand people for a new demonstration that is a test of their strength and tactics after his crushing election victory.

Based on a romantic pop hit from Soviet times, a Kazakh man has ordered one million red roses for his wife on International Women's Day that will be observed on Thursday.

The man had a spat with his

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won a six-year term as Russia's president in an election on Sunday, exit polls showed.

Putin won 58.3 per cent of the vote, enough to avoid a second-round runoff, an exi

Hundreds of cars with white ribbons and balloons drove around Moscow on Sunday to protest the expected return of Vladimir Putin as the Russian president in next month's elections.

The white ribbons w

In a bid to decongest the city centre, the Moscow city government plans to turn federal government offices based there into hotels after the offices move to outlying areas under a city expansion plan.

Russia will produce six submarines and one aircraft carrier annually starting 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.

"By 2013, production capacity [at Russian shipyards] will al

The death mask of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin goes on sale in Britain on Tuesday.

The guide price for a set of bronze casts of Stalin's face and both hands is between 3,000 and 5,000 pounds ($4,600