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Military intervention in the sovereign affairs of other states may lead to outright war, including nuclear war, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “The introduction of all sorts of collective sanctions bypassing international institutions does not improve the situation in the world while reckless military operations in foreign states usually end up with [...]

A Moscow traffic policeman has stolen more than 12 million rubles ($387,270) from the account of a bank client using forged documents, the National Investigation Committee said Thursday. The crooked cop, Alexey Zorin, on May 16 arrived at a department of Raiffeisen Bank located in northern Moscow. He provided a fake passport and other forged [...]

The Russian Air Force will start receiving new ground attack aircraft based on the Sukhoi Su-25SM Frogfoot combat jets by 2020, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said on Thursday. “This new type of a ground attack aircraft has been included in the state arms procurement program,” Zelin, who is an aide to the defense minister, told [...]

A Moscow museum head has been detained at an airport as he tried to smuggle in a 17th-century icon valued at $1 million that was stolen from Russia in 1994, police said. The 62-year-old man, identified by the news site Life News as private Russian Icon museum director Nikolai Zadorozhny, was carrying the 1690 icon [...]

A Moscow court sentenced Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin to ten days in jail for disobeying police orders during Wednesday’s opposition rally in central Moscow. Yashin was arrested among some 30 people during a “people’s stroll” protest which gathered hundreds of opposition activists at central Kudrinskaya Square on Wednesday evening. The activists moved to the [...]

The launch of a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from the Plesetsk Space Center in northern Russia on Thursday was the last in its 40-year history, spokesman for Russia’s Space Forces Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said. The Soyuz-U orbited on Thursday a Cosmos-series reconnaissance satellite to expand Russia’s Oko (Eye) orbital missile early warning network, which consists of [...]

A 24-year-old local man in the Russian city of Izhevsk stole an ambulance from a car service, driving it around for two days before getting caught, police said on Thursday. The man, whose name was withheld, picked an opportune moment for the carjacking, climbing into the freshly repaired vehicle left unguarded with keys in the [...]

Electoral ratings of Russian President Vladimir Putin have grown to 55% returning to 2010 levels, the Public Opinion Foundation said on Thursday. According to the pollster, Putin’s ratings hit 56% in the second half of 2010, but dropped to 43% in 2011 gradually rising to 54% on the eve of the March 4 presidential elections. [...]

Russian stocks closed deep in the red on Thursday, hitting fresh lows as political uncertainty in Greece and Europe’s lingering debt crisis prompted investors to dump riskier assets. The ruble-denominated MICEX closed 3.5 percent lower, at 1,287.79 points, below the psychologically important level of 1,300, hitting an eight-month low, while the dollar-denominated RTS plunged by [...]

A prominent Russian bank apologized to a man who lost his legs and genitalia due to army hazing for allegedly withdrawing a pre-approved loan upon seeing him, media reported. The withdrawal was not due to Andrei Sychyov’s disability, but to the fact that he did not represent himself at a meeting with bank clerks, prompting [...]

The head of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, signed a decree on Thursday dismissing the regional government, the republic’s website reported. “The Cabinet completed a huge amount of work, solved the hardest problems. Altogether I am satisfied with the activities of the government,” the website reported, citing Kadyrov. “But time goes on. We [...]

No decision has been made to withdraw the Russian airbase from the town of Kant, Kyrgyzstan, an aide to the Russian defense minister said on Thursday. “The Air Force main command has not planned any changes in the air component of our base in Kant,” Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said, adding that the base’s organizational [...]

No decision has been made to withdraw the Russian airbase from the town of Kant, Kyrgyzstan, an aide to the Russian defense minister said on Thursday.

A Russian court sentenced two men to 24 and 16 years in jail for their role in organizing a September 2010 terrorist attack that killed 19 people in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz. A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives at an entrance to a central market in Vladikavkaz, capital of the [...]