Politics of Russia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has extended an official invitation to Greece's leftist opposition leader Alexis Tsipras to visit Russia, Skai reported Tuesday.

Tsipras has been invited to visit the country in the first half of May, the report said.

Russia's energy giant Gazprom does not rule out the suspension of gas transit to Europe, the company has warned in its 2013 financial report.

Japan joins EU and U.S. in sancions against Russia

TOKYO -- Japan has introduced visa restrictions for 23 Russian citizens, a day after the United States and the European Union introduced new sanctions against Russia.

A pro-Russian armed man stands guard at a barricade near the state security service building in Slaviansk, Monday. The sticker on the rifle reads ‘Republic of Donetsk.’

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The United States has announced new sanctions against Russia in relation to the events in Ukraine, Monday.

Slovakia and Ukraine have reached a deal that will allow natural gas from Central Europe to reach Ukraine via Slovakia.

Under the deal, which will be signed on Monday in Bratislava, Slovakia will reinstate a disused pipeline that will be capable of supplying 3 B cubic metres of gas a year to Ukraine.

Internet emerged as a CIA project and this is also how it was developed, Russia's President Vladimir Putin reminded on Thursday.

At a media forum, he explained that everything which was said on the Internet was controlled through servers based in the US, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reports.

Gheorgui 'Mitsubishi' Martov, the alleged boss of an organized crime group charged with credit card fraud and money laundering in Chicago has ties to organized crime in Bulgaria.

This claim emerged in a recent US court filing, according to the Chicago Sun.

The Crimean Peninsula could become a gambling zone, after Russian President Putin introduced Monday a bill into Parliament.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Moscow’s demand to Ukraine to settle the gas debts has no connection to the political processes in the country.

Russia’s demand to settle the overdue payments “is not at all connected to the elections in Ukraine on May 25,” Putin said, cited by Itar-Tass.