MOSCOW: Russia’s drive to fill state coffers to give itself a $200 billion buffer against threats like new U.S. sanctions is prudent, analysts say, but will...
MOSCOW: Russia’s lower house of Parliament is to consider draft legislation that would give the Kremlin powers to ban or restrict a list of U.S. imports,...
MOSCOW: Russia risks being saddled with U.S. sanctions for decades, curbing economic growth and preventing it from regaining its status as a leading economic...
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea: The pro-Moscow Crimean politician who signed a document handing control over the Ukrainian Peninsula to Russia in March 2014 said the...
MOSCOW: The arrest of Russia’s economy minister on bribery charges has sown fear across the Moscow political elite that a wider purge may be coming of other...
MOSCOW: Russia will exhaust one of its two sovereign funds next year, according to a Finance Ministry proposal seen by Reuters, having run through $87 billion...
MOSCOW: Under pressure from the falling global oil price, Russia is requiring government departments to cut spending by 10 percent, repeating a policy it also...
MOSCOW: Russia demanded Wednesday the timely repayment of all debts owed to it by Ukraine and accused Kiev of effectively preparing the way for default with a...
MOSCOW: It may have been the last note Boris Nemtsov ever wrote, a hurried scrawl in blue pen on a plain white sheet of A4 paper.A day before he was shot dead...
MOSCOW: Russia’s finance minister called Wednesday for a cut in planned spending to weather an economic crisis, warning of a more than $45 billion drop in...
MOSCOW: Slumping oil prices have put Russia’s economy on course for a sharp recession next year, its finance minister said Friday, as authorities scaled up...
MOSCOW: Russia’s ruble hit its highest levels in two weeks Tuesday, shored up by informal capital control measures designed to head off a repeat of the...
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia must maintain its nuclear deterrence because of what he said were a growing number of possible...
SEVASTOPOL: President Vladimir Putin flew in to Crimea on Friday for parades marking the Soviet victory in World War Two, his first visit since annexing the...
MOSCOW: The Russian prime minister said Tuesday that his government was able to minimize the impact of fresh sanctions that have been threatened over Russia’s...
SOCHI, Russia: France spelled out on Friday that it would oppose a peace conference for Syria if Bashar al-Assad's regional ally Iran is invited, clouding...
SOCHI, Russia: A proposed international conference to try to stop Syria's civil war should be held as soon as possible, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
ISTANBUL: Russia and Turkey agreed to differ on Monday on strategies to end Syria's civil war, highlighting how distant the prospects of a negotiated...
SOCHI, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a rare rebuke of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's government on Tuesday, criticising its fiscal...
MOSCOW: Police detained some 20 activists protesting on Tuesday outside Russia's parliament where deputies debated a Kremlin-backed bill to hike fines for...