Discovery Communications, parent of some of the biggest cable networks in the United States, including Discovery Channel and TLC, has detailed plans to expand into Russia.

The Prosecutor General’s Office Investigation Committee resumed criminal cases on the crimes committed against journalists in 2001-2005.

A Russian expedition vessel has been detained in the Canadian port of St. John's on the island of Newfoundland over debts.

Interpol goes on keeping track of the movements of Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev, wanted on terrorist charges by Russia.

Unidentified people shot a district police officer, his wife and daughter in the village of Leninkent on Sunday night.

China National Petroleum Corp. will agree to a 30-year contract to take 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from Russian gas exporter OAO Gazprom.

Moscow’s Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has said that he has no plans to resign despite a series of media reports that he will step down after battles with authorities.

Russian government reserved 138 billion rubles in the budget for 2012, and 189 billion rubles for 2013, for a reform of the Interior system.

The vice president of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia was wounded in a mortar attack on his house overnight.

Poland’s Prosecutor’s Office has received Moscow’s request for the extradition of a Chechen separatist ringleader Ahmed Zakayev.