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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that his decision to repel the Georgian attack on South Ossetia in August 2008 was timely and efficient despite criticism expressed by some Russian generals. Former top-ranking generals in the Russian army have alleged that Medvedev’s indecision while he was president during the 2008 war with Georgia [...]

The members of a sect in Tatarstan that kept their children confined in cramped, catacomb-like cells must undergo special treatment before they can be reunited with their children, Russian presidential children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said. Law enforcement personnel found about two dozen children being kept in unsanitary, unventilated underground cells during an August 1 [...]

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Wednesday sentenced four people involved in the 2010 nationalist clashes on Manezhnaya Square to terms ranging from suspended sentences to three-year imprisonment, the court said. The Russian capital saw its biggest public disturbances for almost a decade in 2010 when a 5,000-strong crowd of nationalists and football hooligans clashed with [...]

Former top-ranking generals in the Russian army have alleged Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s indecision while he was president during the 2008 war with Georgia resulted in unnecessary loss of life. The allegations appear in a 47-minute documentary, “The Lost Day,” which focuses on the events between August 7, when Russian forces reportedly became aware of [...]

The Latvian Foreign Ministry has declared two high-ranking Russian journalists personae non-gratae in Latvia. The Latvian authorities say Modest Kolerov, the former editor-in-chief of the Regnum news agency, and Igor Pavlovsky, the current deputy editor, have secretly undermined the territorial integrity and economic security of Latvia, according to a ministry press statement. Kolerov, a former [...]

The Kremlin has hijacked Orthodox Christianity and turned it into a propaganda prop for the regime, which is why the secular authorities are now punishing feminist band Pussy Riot for their “punk prayer” in a church, arrested band members said on Wednesday. “We dared to mix Christian culture and protest culture…and so the authorities decided [...]

The Prosecutor’s Office in Russia’s central Vologda Region has urged the court to recognize flyers masterminded by the opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny, which criticize the ruling United Russia Party, as extremist, the regional Prosecutor’s Office said on its Web site on Wednesday. “The information in the flyer is aimed at inciting nationalist hatred between the [...]

Exactly four years on, a new documentary has revived the debate over the five-day war in 2008 between Russia and Georgia, sowing confusion about who was in charge and who knew what – and when. Former top-ranking generals in the Russian Army have alleged in a 47-minute documentary entitled “The Lost Day” that then-President Dmitry [...]

A cow in Siberia’s Irkutsk Region defied nature by climbing to the fifth floor of an apartment building, seeking to escape the love advances of a young bull, rescuers said on Wednesday. The cow fled the field in the village of Lesogorsk that it was grazing in when the bull started harassing it and rushed [...]

Russia will continue to fully support South Ossetia, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.   “This is our choice, and we are not going to divert from our path,” Medvedev told the republic’s President Leonid Tibilov.   “We should discuss what we should do to change life in South Ossetia for the better [...]

Russia and Armenia have agreed on prices for natural gas supplies to Yerevan, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said on Wednesday. “I think we have come to an agreement about pricing for gas supplies. The price should be based on actual market price of gas taking into account … regional tariffs for the Armenian economy to [...]

Russian bread prices may rise 5-10 percent in the fall in the wake of rising grain prices driven by drought in some of Russian regions, but major price swings are unlikely, Russian Grain Union President Arkady Zlochevsky said on Wednesday. “If we’re speaking about how the current developments may affect bread prices in the fall, [...]

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Germany’s long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings at the highest ‘AAA’ level with a Stable outlook, the agency said on Wednesday. “The affirmation reflects Germany’s longstanding credit strengths and robust economic performance over the past two years,” Fitch said in a statement. “Against the background of fragile global recovery [...]

Russian police have suspended the license of private security company belonging to Russian opposition MP Gennady Gudkov, the Interior Ministry’s press office said on Wednesday. Earlier this month, the police launched a planned inspection of St. Petersburg-based Oskord-Spb to check its compliance with arms legislation, which revealed numerous major violations of the law in its [...]