Edward Snowden has been put on the short list of the 2013 Andrey Sakharov Award by the European Parliament.

A member of the St Petersburg city legislature has turned to the Federal Security Service to check whether the Touch ID technology provided in the new iPhone 5s could be used by the US to secretly steal the fingerprints of Russian citizens.

Scientists that took part in biological experiments in the Russian Bion-M1 satellite, have appealed to the authorities to facilitate their continuation.

Duty free shops of the kind that run at the Finnish border area will be shortly opened at the Finland Station in St. Petersburg.

Russia’s Liberal Democrats have demanded that the media watchdog blocks Facebook over online ads of a synthetic drug called ‘spice’.

The European Commission has lashed out at Russia for the recent delays on the border with Lithuania.

Russia has agreed to ease loan terms for Cyprus to help the European nation weather its devastating banking crisis.

Freedom House has called on acting mayor of Moscow to delay the inauguration and conduct a recount of votes due to the slim margin.