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Police in Moscow have rounded up over a thousand employees of a vegetable warehouse, a day after riots on the Russian capital's southern outskirts.Police on Sunday arrested hundreds of suspected rioters in the district of Biryulovo after the stabbing death of an ethnic Russian man who allegedly was killed by a native of the North Caucasus, a region in southern Russia. Caucasus natives work at many vegetable markets around the Russian capital.On Monday, police arrested more than 1,200 people in what was called a "pre-emptive raid" on the vegetable warehouse where the rioters believed the killer worked, Russian news agencies reported.Tensions between nationalist Russians and North Caucasus natives have been simmering for two decades....
The father of former NSA agent Edward Snowden has arrived in Moscow to meet with his son who received asylum in Russia in August.The 30-year-old systems analyst has ...
The father of former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow Thursday morning to meet with his son who has received asylum in Russi...
Lithuania's prime minister says Russia's import restrictions on the Baltic country's dairy products are part Moscow's attempts to reassert influence in Eastern Europ...
Russian police sent reinforcements to the Biryulyovo district in southern Moscow to try and control the demonstrations that degenerated Sunday into massive protests ...
President Vladimir Putin says Russia has extended loans and energy discounts to Ukraine, apparently seeking to lure its economically struggling neighbor back into th...
The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland have clinched berths from Europe for next year's World Cup by winning their qualifying groups and four more ...
Russian investigators say they're considering fresh charges against Greenpeace activists who were detained last month for an Arctic protest.The 29 Greenpeace activis...
Ford Sollers, a joint venture between U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co and Russian carmaker Sollers , is creating a new research and development centre in Russia to adap...
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A Russian court on Thursday ordered two Greenpeace activists to be detained for two months over a protest on an Arctic oil platform, as the Netherlands called for th...
Oil hovered near $102 a barrel Monday, its gains tempered by a forecast of ample growth in supplies and a looming deadline for lawmakers to agree on lifting the U.S....
Alan Pardew says Mike Ashley can get "upset" by the business of football, which sees him doing things "that aren't brilliant" for Newcastle .Newcastle manager Alan P...
The stabbing death of an ethnic Russian man has ignited anger in Moscow against people from the Caucasus, with demonstrators breaking into a shopping center and stor...
Russia's main investigative agency opened a criminal case Monday against the chief executive of Russian potash company Uralkali who is under house arrest in Belarus ...
Moscow, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) - Sixth-seeded Argentine Horacio Zeballos was among Monday's opening-round winners at the $750,000 Kremlin Cup tennis event.Zeball...
Moscow, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) - Former top-five star Svetlana Kuznetsova highlighted Monday's opening-round winners at the Kremlin Cup tennis event.The eighth-s...
A gay rights rally in St. Petersburg has ended in scuffles after several dozen protesters were confronted by about 200 conservative and religious activists.The polic...
In the words of President Vladimir Putin, the four-month Olympic flame relay will "show the world Russia as she is and as we love her."The relay for the Sochi Winter...
Britain's High Court has thrown out a libel case brought by a former Russian police officer against a London-based financier who is a critic of corruption in Russia....