Employers are reluctant to raise wages, and inflation demolishes the bonuses put in the beginning of the year due to the economic stagnation. As a result, the Russians employed in the private sector are expecting one of the most serious decreases in real wages at year-end in recent years.

The Public Chamber is to discuss a new strategy for youth policy on Tuesday. The document contains information on the two main problems of the contemporary youth - emigrant moods and demographic decline.

The text of the draft “The Principles of State Cultural Policy” should be supplemented by a provision on the uniqueness of the civilization created in Russia combining the best achievements of world culture with traditional values, as the Ministry of Culture proposes.

The Russian authorities are planning to make several decisions for strengthening the sovereignty of the Russian segment of the Web. These measures may include the introduction of a special procedure for Internet administration with an opportunity to disconnect it in case of emergency.

The bill limiting the participation of foreigners in the Russian mass media will be adopted quickly and unaltered, as several deputies say.

Russians began to think about the negative consequences of adjoining of the Crimea to Russia, as the latest poll by the Levada Centre shows. The sense of joy of the citizens on this occasion has decreased since spring, the approval of the actions of the leaders of the country on adjoining of the peninsula also decreased, the proportion of those who are willing to get reduced personal income for the financing of the new region grew smaller.

A new package of anti-Russian sanctions may be approved by the authorities of the European Union on September 5, 2014, as the newly elected head of the pan-European diplomacy Federica Mogherini told to the MEPs.

As for the NATO summit to be held on September 4-5, its major result may be the decision on formation of new quick reaction troops at least 10 thousand strong and the increase of military presence near the Russian border. According to the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the alliance should become more “flexible and quick” in order to “resist all kinds of threats”.

The conflict in the south-east of Ukraine and the Russia's role in these events are still one of the main foreign policy issues for the countries of the West. The economic ways to stop Russia's interference in the conflict were discussed on August 30 at a meeting of the EU summit in Brussels, and on September 4-5 the Ukrainian events will be one of the main issues of the NATO summit to be held in the Welsh Newport. The possibility of introducing new economic sanctions against Russia was discussed in Brussels.

The capital police opened a criminal case of vandalism “upon the desecration of a high-rise building on Kotel’nicheskaya embankment”. Yesterday morning a group of young people painted the golden star on the steeple of the skyscraper in blue and hung a yellow-blue flag of Ukraine there.

“Shaltay Boltay” blog published the correspondence which may belong to the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, according to the authors of the blog. Announcing the publishing of the documents in their Twitter account, the authors of “Shaltay Boltay” write: “Correspondence of Medvedev Part One”.

Moscow dwellers will not be allowed to use barbecues, braziers and grills to cook food on the streets outside of specially allocated places.

The heads of the Internal Affairs Departments, who have been commissioned by the Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev to monitor the implementation of his order concerning the undesirability of exit of the policemen abroad, decided to secure themselves and collected the foreign passports of their subordinates. Both policemen in regions, and the staff of the Moscow police became restricted to travel abroad.

State Duma members and senators will consider the possibility of replacing official foreign-made cellphones with Russian-made Yotaphone.

Only 1% of Russians is actively interested in country’s political life. Almost 70% of our citizens do not show interest in the political agenda. These data were released by the Levada Center.

Russia-IC looks at Mikhail Prokhorov's new party as it aims to transform the political landscape in Russia, becoming a third power with serious ambitions.

Big presidential electoral campaign ends today, on Sunday Russia goes to the polls. What was this run-up most notable for? Let's discover the main stages, events and scandals of this pre-election month.

There only 3 days left till the main political event in Russia - Presidential Elections. No wonder that almost everything in Russia now has some political tones, and it is sometimes difficult to understand all this. We have prepared this article to help you getting a complete picture of main rules and details of Russian election legislation.

As less than a month left until Russia's presidential elections and pre-election race is under way, we would like to offer you a brief look at five candidates who made it on the ballot, telling about their career, political views, supporters and chances for winning.

In the recent years large Russian cities have become overly populated by the so-called illegal immigrants. These are usually people from the CIS countries who often come to Russia to work on building sites or as cleaners. The Government has suggested to implement measures that should help to restrict the amount of immigration. However, according to experts, there are more minuses in this proposition.