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The mood to emigrate from Russia is at an all-time low following a turbulent election season marked with the rise of grassroots protests, according to state-run VTsIOM pollster. However, the drive to leave is the highest among the young and the supporters of political hopeful Mikhail Prokhorov, the only presidential candidate to speak at recent [...]

Russian-US relations are at an all-time high, President Medvedev told President Obama at a nuclear security summit in Seoul on Monday – but not high enough, it seems, to find a common stance on deployment of missile defense in Europe. Medvedev insisted however, that there is still time to negotiate. “We talked about the fact [...]

Avangard became the first team to make it into the KHL’s Gagarin Cup Conference finals, edging Metallurg Magnitogorsk on home ice and claiming the best-of-seven series 4-2. Regulation time wasn’t enough to decide the winner in the encounter. The Omsk side were close to clinching victory, taking a 2-1 lead eight minutes from time, but [...]

A 25-year-old woman has died in hospital of injuries suffered in an attack by stray dogs on the outskirts of Simferopol in Ukraine’s Crimea, the local police said on Friday. The woman was attacked in the early morning hours on Thursday after spending time drinking with two men, who later left her at a bus [...]

U.S. manufacturer of industrial, process and specialty gases Praxair bought Volga Azot industrial gas producer from Russia’s largest petrochemical group Sibur, Praxair said on Monday without disclosing the amount of the deal. The purchase of Volga Azot based in the Volgograd region in country’s south is the fourth largest investment of Praxair in Russia. The [...]

Russian law enforcement officials have formally presented charges against Anatoly Ballo, Deputy Chairman of the country’s national development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) in relation to a million fraud, the Interior Affairs Ministry said on Monday. According to investigators, Ballo and unnamed accomplices stole million, as part of a loan granted to the Evraziisky company to buy [...]

Washington has allegedly opened discussions with allies on possible military intervention in Syria, as foreign ministers from the UN Security Council nations to meet later on Monday to discuss the Syrian conflict. ­According to US Washington Post, some US unnamed officials suggest among the possibilities are directly arming opposition forces, sending troops to guard a [...]

By Sam Oliver Russia’s national customs agency has decided to reclassify Apple’s iPad as a personal computer, a change that will allow customers to avoid a 5 percent import tax that was previously applied to sales. Russia’s Federal Customs Service has nixed the 5 percent fee by nixing the “navigator” classification that was previously applied [...]

With a record number of ballot observers and almost 200,000 webcams in place to monitor the voting process online, the 2012 presidential elections are being billed as Russia’s most transparent yet. ­“We won’t forget and we won’t forgive!” – this is what the opposition promised the Kremlin after December’s parliamentary elections. They claimed the vote [...]

With Vladi­mir Putin expected to win the Russian presidential elections set for Sunday, Brookings scholar Fiona Hill says the United States should be concerned that the U.S.-Russian relations reset under current president Dmitry Medvedev is at risk. “The rhetoric of [Putin’s] campaign has been very nasty,” says Hill. “Anti-Americanism is always an old tool in [...]