Foreign mass media often pays much attention to the goods made in Russia. In this article we'll review the french attitude to the Russian cognac production.

Jack Randall was one of those american managers who believed in a Moscow's eldorado. In his home city in New Jersey a long way to make a good career had been waiting for him. But suddenly he was invited to work in a Moscow bank on a post that would take him about 10 years to reach if he has been workring for it in his home city. There was something more to come — luxury apartments in the centre of Moscow and a Lexus car provided by the employer.

Okhta-centre is a business centre in St. Petersburg, existing yet as a project of Gazprom Group and city government. It will include the first supertall skyscraper in the city. The main tower of Okhta-Centre is going to be the tallest building in Europe amongst live building proposals. The project mission is to create a new public and business area, moreover, with its its own specific recognizable element. It will be actually this high rise building, supposed to become one of the landmarks of a new Petersburg. The project implies the construction of six buildings united with a common base floor.

“AutoStat” statistics agency has summarized first six months of Russian car market and is ready to show some interesting figures. During first six months Russians reregistered about 1.94 millions of used cars, which is 400 thousand cars more, that during the same period of the previous year, and only 50 thousand cars less, that in 2008, notable for extremely high activity of the car market. Furthermore, used cars are still cheaper, than in 2008, while new cars are 5.4% more expensive, than in 2009.

Experts go on discussing political, economical, and financial implications of resignation of Yury Luzhkov and appointment of Sergey Sobyanin to the post of Moscow mayor. Archnadzor – a public movement that consistently supports preservation of historical sites and cultural heritage of Moscow – has its own standpoint.

Experts from the United Nations Organization strongly believe that Russian government should develop and introduce special measures for eliminating poverty in order to achieve so-called Millenium Development Goals

Russian State Duma is considering the possibility of closer work with IT-game industry. There will probably appear a supervising body – an independent advisory council, one of the tasks of which will be tracing of unduly cruel and antipatriotic games in the market and banning their sale in Russia. However, the activities will hardly be limited to prohibition measures only.

Russia's VimpelCom Ltd and Weather Investments, the investment company headed by Egyptian telecom mogul Naguib Sawiris, said they are merging to form what would become the world's fifth largest mobile telecommunication service provider in a deal valued at over $6.5 billion.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday, on a state visit to China, abruptly sacked veteran Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov after nearly two decades in charge.

Since 2008 Russian foreign policy has begun to swing back toward cooperation with the West. Are hints about a new course for Russian foreign policy remain mostly that: hints?

Most experts now believe Luzhkov, who is 74, will be forced to retire next summer. But previous predictions of his removal have not come to pass.

A series of vigorous statements by top Russian officials in recent days show Russia placing anti-narcotics in Afghanistan on an equal footing with the worldwide war on terrorism.

Another ugly scandal convulse Russian police. The head of the Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes and three police officers in Siberian Zabaikalsky Territory are suspected of taking bribes worth more than $450,000.

It's the August 31, less than a quarter of an hour to the planned march of the "Strategy 31" opposition movement in the centre of Moscow. The mayor's office and city government are planning to treat the rally as a provocation.

The decision Friday of a Thai appellate to overturn a lower-court decision and allow Victor Bout's extradition to stand trial in the United States on charges of trying to sell weapons to Colombian guerrillas means he should finally get his day in court.

The flow of tourists to alpine resorts in Kabardino-Balkaria has grown much thinner of late, after more than ten police officers and civilians were killed in the region in one month.

President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law on introducing amendments to the law on the Federal Security Service (FSB) about administrative violations that expands the powers of the FSB under the current law.

The two-month heat wave in Russia took a political turn as protesters tried to gather in front of Moscow City Hall to demand the resignation of Moscow's mayor.

A first step in President Dmitry Medvedev's reform of the notoriously corrupt police force will be to replace its Bolshevik-imposed name "militia" with the tsarist-era "police."

On August 5th, the International Criminal Court in The Hague saw the most beautiful witness in its entire history. Naomi Campbell, a girlfriend of a Russian businessman, testified in the case of one of the most outspoken politicians of our time, the former Liberian President Charles Taylor.