Russia was named seventh best country for expatriates in an annual survey involving more than 7,000 expats worldwide and described as one of the largest of its kind.

Half of the citizens of Finland give no credence to the need of visa abolition for Russians.

Rosneft and China's Sinopec agreed on annual shipments of 10 million tons of oil to China. The contract duration is 10 years.

The EU has slammed Russia over the ban it slapped on Lithuanian dairy products in what say see as another food war.

Moscow office properties around the Kremlin are more expensive than the golden triangle area around the Champs Elysées in Paris.

The EU has defended Lithuania against Russia’s suspension of its dairy exports.

First two members of a group of Greenpeace activists who were detained aboard a Greenpeace icebreaker during a protest action at an offshore oil rig in the Arctic last month, were officially charged with piracy.