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.

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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

The navigator of a Russian plane that crashed onto a highway in the northwestern region of Karelia in June, killing 47 people, was drunk, an official report said on Monday.

The navigator 'was in a li

The navigator of a Russian plane that crashed onto a highway in the northwestern region of Karelia in June, killing 47 people, was drunk, an official report said on Monday.

The navigator 'was in a li

The 'blonde's error' has been identified as the cause of the crash of Yakovlev Yak-42 jet plane last week in which 44 people were killed including the entire Lokomotiv ice hockey team, according to a

A Russian jet carrying a local ice hockey team crashed on Wednesday while taking off in western Russia, killing 36 people and leaving one critically injured, officials said.

The Russian Emergency Sit

It's summer, so it must be time for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to take his shirt off.

And any Russians disappointed that Putin had not been photographed this holiday season riding bare-chested

Technical problems forced Russia to abort a flight of its T-50 stealth plane at an air show outside Moscow on Sunday, officials said.

The Russian air force "stopped the flight due to technical defect

Russian police officers working in positions where they may be exposed to temptations of bribery and corruption will have to take lie-detector tests, a minister has said.

Interior Minister Rashid Nur

The top diplomats of Russia and Iran sought a breakthrough on Wednesday on a deal that could revive the stalled nuclear talks between the Islamic state and western powers suspicious of its weapons drive.