Russia
March 17, 2010By Farangis Najibullah A glamorous blue-blood will marry her Russian oligarch fiance later this year, capping a fairy-tale romance. A number of Central Asian publications, including the popular CentrAsia.ru news website, are following the love story...
Russia gripped by car crashes involving police, privileged
March 13, 2010By Peter Fedynsky Spectacular car crashes are making news in Russia these days. Most of them involve vehicles of people in positions of authority or privilege. Another recent incident has turned into a major scandal after police ordered drivers into...
Forbes: Russia has largest number of tycoons in Europe
March 11, 2010Russia has the largest number of billionaires among the European countries, Forbes magazine has said. According to the Forbes' annual list of word's richest people published on Wednesday, the number of billionaires in Russia has risen to 62 from 32 last...
March 03, 2010By Robert Coalson An armored Mercedes in Moscow speeds down a busy highway and smashes into another car. The two women in the unfortunate car are killed. The police blame them and, by all appearances, hasten to cover up the evidence (RFE/RL’s story...
Scandal erupts over fatal car crash involving Russian oil executive
March 03, 2010The driving habits of Russia's rich and powerful are again being placed under a spotlight following an automobile accident involving a top oil executive in Moscow that left two women dead. The accident took place on February 25, when a chauffeur-driven...
Smaller than expected Tsunami reaches Japan, Russia
February 28, 2010A tsunami generated by Chile's massive earthquake reached the shores of Japan and Russia Sunday, but waves were smaller than expected and did not cause damage or casualties. Japan had ordered hundreds of thousands of people to move to higher ground along...
Russia's smoking and drinking chimp
February 26, 2010Reuters picks up a "Komsomolskaya pravda" report on a chimpanzee whose smoking and boozing have landed him in hot water with his Moscow zookeepers. And zoogoers are tired of the shakedowns, too. They're sending Zhora the former circus chimp...
Bolshevik crimes: Last Tsar's murder probe
February 18, 2010By Claire Bigg A Moscow court is due to start hearings today into a dispute pitting the self-proclaimed heir to Russia's imperial throne against the Prosecutor-General's Office. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, who styles herself as the head of the...
Russia: Calling for killing at birth babies with mental disabilities sparks furor
February 10, 2010By Claire Bigg, Lyubov Chizhova, Aleksandr Kulygin Russian Call For 'Postnatal Abortion' Sparks Furor Among Parents Of Disabled In late December, Snezhana Mitina received a tearful phone call from her friend Svetlana. Sobbing, Svetlana explained she...
One-third of Russian militiamen psychopaths or alcoholics
January 19, 2010By Paul Goble Nearly one in every three militiamen in Russia is likely a psychopath or an alcoholic, the result, a leading specialist says, of the attraction militia service has for such people, the end of psychological screening of applicants...