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Leaders visit crash site one year on
Tuesday 12 April 2011
The presidents of Russia and Poland navigated swirling tensions yesterday as they visited the site of the air crash that killed the Polish president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others a year ago. Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hosted his Polish counterpart, Bronislaw Komorowski, in the western city of Smolensk, not far from where Mr Kaczynski's aircraft crashed in heavy fog on 10 April 2010.
Cyber attack freezes paper
Saturday 09 April 2011
A cyber attack paralysed the website of a popular Russian independent newspaper yesterday. The Novaya Gazeta's editor, Dmitry Muratov, said he believed attacks on his and other online news and blogging services were linked to Russia's parliamentary election this year and its presidential election in 2012.
Tribunal blocks BP plan for Rosneft share-swap
Saturday 09 April 2011
British oil giant to seek compromise deal with Russian partners
Chechen warlord charged with organising attack on Moscow airport
Wednesday 30 March 2011
A Chechen rebel warlord was behind the suicide bombing of Moscow's main airport, Russia's top investigative agency said yesterday, adding that it has detained two suspects.
Time won't change, decrees Medvedev
Monday 28 March 2011
Russians will now be permanently on daylight saving time after they set their clocks ahead one hour early yesterday under a decree from President Dmitry Medvedev.
The artists who crossed the line
Wednesday 23 February 2011
An art group that stages orgies, throws cats at cashiers and has Banksy as a fan has enraged the Russian authorities
Russia: Ten killed in clashes with militants
Wednesday 16 February 2011
Ten people were reported killed yesterday in clashes between security forces and suspected militants in Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus.
Russia frozen in time by plan to brighten the bleakest winter
Thursday 10 February 2011
There's not much that the Kremlin can do to get rid of the long and difficult Russian winter – but it has decided that it can abolish "winter time", in a move announced this week by President Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian claim to tiny islands infuriates Japan
Tuesday 08 February 2011
A long-running diplomatic dispute between Japan and Russia over a chain of islands in the western Pacific escalated yesterday, with the Japanese Prime Minister branding a recent visit to the disputed territory by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev "an unforgivable outrage".
Airport attack was just the start, militants warn Russia
Monday 07 February 2011
Video appears to show Moscow bomber and warns of 'monthly, weekly' atrocities
The Business On: Igor Sechin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
Saturday 05 February 2011
Not the one who uses 'The Godfather' as a life manual?
Russia: Suspects held over airport bomb
Friday 04 February 2011
Several people with information on last month's suicide bombing at a Moscow airport have been detained, Russia's top security official said yesterday. Alexander Bortnikov added that the bomber was under the influence of mind-altering drugs.
Giant monument to Yeltsin is unveiled on anniversary of his birth
Wednesday 02 February 2011
President Dmitry Medvedev unveiled a huge monument to his predecessor Boris Yeltsin yesterday, praising him for leading Russia through its difficult years after the Soviet Union's collapse.
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