DMITRY MEDVEDEV

Russian media says an amnesty bill initiated by Putin will free the jailed protesters, contradicting last week’s reports.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Russia on Monday on the first leg of an “economic diplomacy” tour spanning Russia, Turkey and the Middle East.

The trial of Alexei Navalny, a leading opposition figure in Russia, who led protests against Vladimir Putin, was adjourned on Wednesday.

Russia's president, who spent 16 years as a KGB officer, joked on Friday that he "doesn't eavesdrop anymore."

Russia is dissatisfied with the Cyprus bailout, which resulted in a tax on larger bank deposits, many of which are held by Russian businesses.

"It must realize its current business model is dead," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

Germany's finance minister warned Cyprus Tuesday night that its banks may never be able to reopen if it rejects the terms of a bailout.

Russian account holders stand to lose a great deal of money should the government of Cyprus choose to impose a banks savings tax.

The Cuban president announced he will not seek re-election in 2018, as he named Miguel Diaz-Canel his top deputy Sunday.

A meteorite burst above the Ural Mountains in central Russia on Friday, showering debris over the region and injuring more than 400 people, local media reported.

France proposes a 75 percent tax rate next year for the super-wealthy, while Russia has a 13 percent income tax.

Russia issued a decree this week, which will regulate the maximum price for accommodation and services in Krasnodar Region hotels during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

When Communism ended, Russia's mortality rate shot up. Three professors say they have figured out why.

Conspiracy theorists all over the world perked up Friday when Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev joked that Russian leaders were in possession of secret files on aliens.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is injured, but some think his health is more precarious than the Kremlin is letting on.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced that a new bill is in the works to ban public smoking.

Just weeks after finalizing a deal to buy American F-16s, the government of Nouri al-Maliki buys missiles and helicopters from Washington's rival on the arms market, too.

The Russian Orthodox Church, hinting at leniency, urged Pussy Riot to repent Sunday, on the eve of an appeals court ruling on the band’s sentences for performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral.

Russia has one of the world's highest rates of alcoholism and road accidents caused by booze.

Francois Hollande, was mocked by his own French media for looking like a ?dwarf? while standing amongst Her Majesty?s Coldstream Guards regiment during his first official visit to London.

The Kurils are a chain of islands four thousand miles from Moscow, with horrible weather and a sparse, poor population. But they are on Japan's doorstep, and promise mineral and natural riches - and that's why Prime minister Medvedev is there