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Russia will revel in the World Cup
Nowhere can math the historic sweep of this post-Soviet World Cup — and the trains are great.
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Long arm of the law reaches for Assange
WikiLeaks founder faces growing legal problems around the world. The US announced that it’s investigating whether he violated its espionage laws.
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Power to Chávez
Russia has agreed to help Venezuela build its first nuclear power station in a move likely to raise concerns.
Kremlin attacks ‘cold war’ tactics
Spy affair a deliberate attempt to undermine improved US-Russia relations, says Moscow.
Massacre in woods that brought war to Moscow’s metro
The plan had been straightforward: stuff their sacks, enjoy the countryside, and then head back home to the Chechen town of Achkoi-Martan.
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As the trial of three men accused of murdering Anna Politkovskaya continues, Luke Harding reports from Moscow on one editor’s fight for life.
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Russia’s rich out of money
For the Moscow pensioners gathered next to Karl Marx’s statue on Sunday there was, at last, something to be cheerful about.
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Russian lawyer at centre of poisoning inquiry
Russia’s leading human rights lawyer is at the centre of an investigation by French police after claiming she had been poisoned.
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Happy birthday, Mr Putin, here’s a tiger!
On Friday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed off his latest birthday present: a rare two-and-a-half-month-old Siberian tiger.
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New Ukraine poll looms as coalition collapses
Ukraine was on Tuesday night facing the prospect of further political instability after the pro-Western coalition formally collapsed.
