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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday Russia would take action to protect its citizens under siege by Georgian troops driving to re-assert control over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Medvedev did not specify what action Moscow might take.
"We will not let the deaths of our citizens go unpunished, the guilty...
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South Ossetia has appealed to its ally Russia for military aid in violent fighting with Georgian troops who surrounded the capital Friday.
"Heavy fighting in and around Tskhinvali is ongoing," the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee reported. "The people of South Ossetia request the president and the...
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Two people were killed and at least three injured by an explosion on the beach in the Olympic host town of Sochi along the Black Sea, Russian agencies reported.
"At 10:35 am an unidentified device exploded at Loo beach, two people were killed," the head of the city's emergency situations ministry, Anatoly Sherbinin, was...
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Two people died in an explosion on a tourist beach in the Olympic host city of Sochi, drawing a strong reaction from authorities, Russian news agencies reported.
"At 10:35 am (0600 GMT) an unidentified device exploded at Loo beach, two people were killed and 13 injured including an 8-year-old girl," Interfax quoted an...
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Dissident Soviet writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn
was laid to rest with a three-gun salute on Wednesday in a service
attended by President Dmitry Medvedev at Moscow's 16th-century Donskoy
Monastery. The funeral procession of several hundred was led by goose- stepping guards, who carried a black-and-white portrait of Rusia's literary...
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Tributes to Soviet dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn poured in on Monday as the world mourned the death of one of Russia'sgreatest literary figures.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised the Nobel literature laureate
as 'an outstanding writer and committed citizen,' in a letter of
condolence sent to Russian President...
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Sergei Kislyak, Russia's deputy foreign minister, was named the country's new ambassador to Washington, news agencies reported Tuesday.
Kislyak, 57, has headed difficult negotiations with the United States
in recent months over Washington's plan to install parts of a missile
defence shield in Eastern Europe.
The countries'...
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano met with
Russia's ruling duo president Dmitry Medvedev and Premier Vladimir
Putin in Moscow Wednesday for talks a Kremlin spokesman said would
focus on international diplomacy, as Italy assumes the G8 presidency
next year. 'In the discussions on international affairs,
particular attention was...
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 Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in Wednesday as Russian president
by his powerful mentor, Vladimir Putin, AFP reports. The inauguration of Russia’s new
president took place at midday in the Andreyevsky hall of the Kremlin palace.
The question is whether the 55-year-old ex-KGB officer, who
led Russia
for eight years, is willing to...
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 Russian media claims President Vladimir Putin divorced his
wife in order to marry a former gymnast less than half his age. Putin, 55, is said
to have secretly divorced his wife, Ljudmila to tie the knot with 24-year-old
Olympic gold medalist Alina Kabaeva, who is now a member of the Russian
parliament. According to the Russian...
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 President Vladimir Putin is expected to remain Russia’s
predominant political figure, as he accepted the leadership of the dominant
United Russia party. Nearly 600 party delegates at Tuesday’s congress approved
his candidacy in unanimous vote. The position secures his power and Putin, 55,
will be able to maintain his influence after...
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 Dmitry Medvedev crushed his opponents and won the presidential elections to become Russia’s new president. However, his landslide victory was overshadowed by rigging accusations.Medvedev, formerly Vladimir Putin's chief of staff and also the Chairman of Gazprom's board of directors, was voted by 70.2 percent of voters. The nearest of his...
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 Russia’s Election Commission disqualified a former prime
minister from the March 2 presidential election, claiming many of the signatures
of support submitted were not valid.
The Election Commission has announced its refusal to register Mikhail Kasyanov, an ardent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, EuroNews.net reported...
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Russian prosecutors have opened an investigation which is expected to
disqualify presidential opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov for
allegedly forging the signatures he needed to run, Interfax news agency
reported Tuesday.
Former prime minister Kasyanov said any move to block his joining the ballot was a case of "political...
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 Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday he would become prime
minister if his hand-picked successor Dmitry Medvedev was elected in
his stead - setting a blueprint for power when his term ends in 2008.
"If citizens give a vote of confidence to Medvedev and elect him
Russia's president, I will be ready to lead the...
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 Dissident and former chess champion Garry Kasparov has been prevented
from standing as a candidate in Russia's presidential vote, his
spokeswoman said Thursday.
Kasparov's beleaguered opposition coalition the Other Russia was
repeatedly blocked by authorities from finding a venue in which to hold
a congress to nominate him, Maria...
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 Dmitry Medvedev, the most likely successor to the Kremlin presidency,
called on President Vladimir Putin Tuesday to become prime minister,
resolving months of uncertainty over Russia's future power
constellation.
"I declare my readiness to stand as candidate for the presidential
elections, and I consider it crucial for our...
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 President Vladimir Putin upheld the candidature of First Deputy Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday to succeed him in office when his
presidency ends in March.
Putin meeting with party leaders Monday, including United Russia
which won by a landslide in the recent parliamentary election, said he
"fully and completely...
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 Russia's impending presidential polls once again took centre stage in
the run-up to December 2 parliamentary elections when the government
newspaper Rossiikaya Gazeta on Wednesday published the official date
for the vote.
The declaration immediately launched the application process for
the presidential election, to be held on...
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