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©REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin Five years on, Georgia still counting cost of Russia war The 2008 war between Georgia and Russia over the separatist region of South Ossetia may have only lasted five days but five years on, Amiran Gugutishvili is still counting the cost.
05 August 2013
Russia home to text message fraud "cottage industry" Researchers have discovered that bilking people by infecting Android mobile phones with viruses has become a cottage industry in Russia in a criminal model that could be replicated elsewhere.
03 August 2013
Mukhtar Ablyazov. Photo by Yaroslav Radlovskiy© Russia mulls requesting Ablyazov's extradition from France Russian authorities are preparing documents to request extradition of the former chairman of BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov recently arrested in France.
02 August 2013
US fumes as Russia grants Snowden asylum Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday stepped out of the Moscow airport where he was marooned for over five weeks.
02 August 2013
US gays pour out anger, vodka over Russia laws Demonstrators poured vodka down the drains of New York on Wednesday in protest over new Russian laws that have been widely condemned as anti-gay.
01 August 2013
Snowden's father to visit Russia 'soon': lawyer Edward Snowden's father is seeking a Russian visa and plans to visit his fugitive son in Moscow soon.
01 August 2013
My political career is over: Strauss-Kahn Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn declared in an interview broadcast on Russian television that his political career was over and he was instead working as an economic advisor.
01 August 2013
Nursultan Nazarbayev. Photo by Marat Abilov© Nazarbayev and Putin discuss integration Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
01 August 2013
©RIA NOVOSTI Russia bans top Ukrainian chocolate brand Russia has banned imports of a popular Ukrainian chocolate brand, the Kremlin's chief sanitary official said Monday, as Moscow steps up efforts to retain influence over its EU-inclined neighbour.
31 July 2013
Photo by Marat Abilov© Kazakhstan to supply 500 tons of meat to Russia Kazakhstan will supply 500 tons of meat to Russia by the end of 2013.
30 July 2013
©REUTERS/Gus Ruelas Russian war games play on former US aircraft carrier Russian video game publisher 1C Company boarded a former US aircraft carrier to re-write the Cuban Missile Crisis that had super powers on the brink of nuclear war in 1962.
29 July 2013
©RIA NOVOSTI Putin joins Orthodox leaders for religious anniversary in Ukraine President Vladimir Putin travels to Ukraine on Saturday to mark the 1025th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in Kievan Rus.
28 July 2013
Demonstrators wear "Free Pussy Riot" balaclavas as they protest. ©REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton Jailed Pussy Riot punk asks again for parole One of the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot on Wednesday asked again to be released on parole after serving almost a year in prison.
25 July 2013
Putin to visit Iran for nuclear talks: report President Vladimir Putin is to visit Iran in August to try and restart talks on Tehran's controversial nuclear programme.
25 July 2013
©RIA Novosti Kazakhstan suggests mixing Kashagan and Russian oil Kazakhstan has suggested TransNeft to consider transporting oil from Kashagan field via Atyrau-Samara pipeline.
24 July 2013
G20 gets 'action plan' to fight tax avoidance The OECD has presented the G20 nations with a bold strategy to crack down on tax avoidance by corporate giants and the super rich, and so boost overstretched national budgets.
20 July 2013
Navalny returns to Moscow a hero, will push ahead with mayor bid Top opposition leader Alexei Navalny triumphantly returned home to Russia's capital on Saturday after his unexpected release from prison.
20 July 2013
More than 200 detained after Navalny rally: watchdog More than 200 people have been detained in Moscow after several thousand rallied outside the Kremlin to protest the conviction and jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
19 July 2013
Zenit rocket. ©RIA Novosti Russia to give up renting Zenit launch pad at Baikonur: media Russia will start transferring rented property at Baikonur cosmodrome to Kazakhstan with International Space Services company.
19 July 2013

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