MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday exhorted the country to make improving the lives of children Russia’s top task and proposed giving free land to families with three or more children.

A Russian emergencies ministry’s plane with people wounded in Thursday’s terrorist attack in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz landed at the Ramenskoye airport in Moscow. At least 17 people were killed a suicide car bombing in...

For years, environmentalists have risked arrests and sometimes beatings by the police and masked plainclothes thugs in their efforts to halt the construction of a highway linking Moscow to St. Petersburg that they say would destroy the Khimki Forest,...

From the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Moskva river towards the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour you normally have a clear view of the Kremlin. But for several days last week its fairytale towers had disappeared behind an acrid grey pall. With the...

Two carloads of assailants attacked a RusHydro power station in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region on Wednesday, killing two workers and setting off bombs. The attack won’t affect power supplies in the area, the company said in a...

Police in southern Russia are investigating allegations of animal cruelty after a donkey was made to parasail as part of an advertising stunt, Russian media report. The donkey was sent up into the sky last week by entrepreneurs hoping to attract people...

John Fernandes, a politician from the Indian state of Goa, has been charged with raping a Russian woman who worked at a local five-star hotel, Indian media reported Tuesday. The 25-year-old woman claimed Fernandes assaulted her in his car after...

At least 12 people, including a top local police official, have been killed by two suicide bombings in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. A car bomb was detonated at about 0830 (0430 GMT) outside the offices of the local interior...

Russian television has aired a video of a wedding guest shooting himself in the head with a rubber bullet in a game of Russian roulette. An excerpt from a wedding video airing on NTV television shows a man addressing the groom, then whipping out a...

Russia and Finland have held roundtable discussions since December 2008 under an international agreement for collaboration in the nanotechnology sphere. Representatives from RUSNANO, the Russian Research Institute of Metrological Service, and the...