WASHINGTON/MOSCOW: A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill containing new sanctions on Russia over its alleged meddling in U.S. elections and...
OSLO/MOSCOW: A gap in U.S. sanctions allows Western companies to help Russia develop some of its most technically challenging oil reserves, and risks...
MOSCOW/NIZHNEVARTOVSK, Russia: Two senior Russian officials talked up potential cooperation with OPEC to prop up prices, but data showed oil production in...
MOSCOW: The BRICS emerging economies will launch a development bank at a summit this week which President Vladimir Putin hopes will help reduce Western...
MOSCOW: The Russian government ordered 30 billion roubles ($560 million) in cuts in spending on the 2018 World Cup finals Monday, the latest cutback as an...
MOSCOW: Russia is unlikely to introduce new sanctions in retaliation for EU decisions, Russian Economy Minister Alexei Uluykayev said Thursday, adding that...
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, on Tuesday to discuss Ukraine and other...
MOSCOW: Two suspects have been detained in relation to the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the head of the Federal Security Service...
MOSCOW: Western plans to send weapons to Ukraine and to extend sanctions against Russia over the crisis are steps aimed at destabilizing the situation there,...
LONDON/MOSCOW: Russian companies face billions of dollars in extra insurance costs as Western sanctions prompt foreign insurance firms to start pulling out,...
MOSCOW/CARACAS: Top Russian oil producer Rosneft's Chief Executive Igor Sechin will fly to Vienna on Nov. 25, just two days before the Organization of the...
MOSCOW/MARIUPOL, Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for immediate talks on "statehood" for southern and eastern Ukraine, although his...
MOSCOW/KIEV: Russia threatened Ukraine Sunday with "irreversible consequences" after a man was killed by a shell fired across the border from Ukraine,...
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin’s idea of a massive boost to Gazprom’s share capital has taken bankers and the energy industry by surprise, with...
MOSCOW: Russia's Gazprom gave Ukraine on Monday an extension into next week to resolve a gas price dispute at the heart of the two countries' confrontation, a...
MOSCOW: Russia Wednesday said it was close to signing a deal to sell natural gas to China, a long-sought agreement that President Vladimir Putin could hold up...
THE HAGUE/MOSCOW: Russia and the West drew a tentative line under the Ukraine crisis on Tuesday after U.S. President Barack Obama and his allies agreed to...
MOSCOW: Russia’s economy could grow just 2 percent this year, the central bank said Tuesday, and the economy minister called for the inflation target to...
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin defended the long-term supply deals under which Russia exports its gas Monday, and warned that abandoning them would...
MOSCOW: Russia launched the long-awaited sale of a $5 billion stake in Sberbank Monday, reducing its controlling interest in Europe’s third-largest bank...
MOSCOW: A state-controlled Russian bank is closing down the accounts of Iranian embassy staff in Moscow in a step criticized by Ambassador Seyed Mahmoud-Reza...