In Siberia, Shopping Malls Are Sprouting All Over
New York Times, United States - 13 minutes ago
By ANDREW E. KRAMER NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia — In this region of Siberia, long synonymous with gulags and hardship, shoppers mobbed an Ikea store last winter ...

Canada tops Sweden; plays Russia for hockey title
Forbes, NY - 40 minutes ago
On Sunday, Canada will face Russia, which advanced to the final with a 4-0 shutout of Finland. It's the first time the two hockey powers have met for the ...

Rosneft targets producing 130 million tonnes of oil per year by ...
Forbes, NY - 9 hours ago
MOSCOW (Thomson Financial) - Russia's biggest oil company, state-owned Rosneft, has set a target to produce 130 million tonnes of oil per year by 2010, ...

BBC Monitoring profiles the European press scene - Russia.

Heavy Equipment Reaches Quake-Stricken Area
Washington Post, United States - 1 hour ago
... a specialized team from Japan began work on Friday as China admitted other aid from Russia, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore. ...

Is democracy advancing or retreating? By Clifford D. May
Washington Times, DC - 1 hour ago
In particular, he writes, "autocracy is making a comeback," with Russia and China the most significant examples. In other words, it's not — as another ...

Peninsula On-line
As Time Runs Out, Survivors Pulled From Quake Rubble
New York Times, United States - 11 hours ago
Experts from Taiwan, South Korea and Russia are expected to arrive soon. But rescue efforts have been hampered all week long by bad weather, ...

As Time Runs Out, Survivors Pulled From Quake Rubble
New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago
Experts from Taiwan, South Korea and Russia are expected to arrive soon. But rescue efforts have been hampered all week long by bad weather, ...

Serena Williams pulls out of Italian Open
Washington Post, United States - 3 hours ago
The injury gives 18-year-old Cornet, who on Thursday knocked out last year's finalist Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, a walkover to the last four, ...

BBC News explores how the Russian authorities are preparing for the arrival of fans for the Champions League final in Moscow.

China's President flies to quake zone; country braces for death ...
Hindu, India - 10 hours ago
China initially was reluctant to accept foreign offers of help, but the Foreign Ministry said early Friday that specialist teams from Russia, ...

CNN International
Remaining cult members quit cave
CNN International - 2 hours ago
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- The nine remaining members of a Russian doomsday cult holed up underground for months awaiting the end of the world abandoned it ...

Russia-InfoCenter
Last doomsday cult members abandon cave in Russia
Washington Post, United States - 8 hours ago
He left his family and established the True Russian Orthodox Church and recruited followers in Russia and Belarus. He reportedly told followers that in the ...

JKX Oil & Gas Q1 production down 15 percent to 11494 boepd UPDATE
Forbes, NY - 8 hours ago
The company said its new project in Russia is moving ahead with the aim of re-establishing production from the field by year-end. ...

CNN International
China pushes frantic search for
CNN International - 5 hours ago
Rescuers from Russia, South Korea and Singapore were expected to arrive soon. Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Vietnam and Poland were among the ...

CNN International
China pushes frantic search for
CNN International - 15 hours ago
Rescuers from Russia, South Korea and Singapore were expected to arrive soon. Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Vietnam and Poland were among the ...

Poland's Cersanit Q1 net profit falls 28 pct on strong zloty ...
Forbes, NY - 10 hours ago
But Cersanit has suffered from a relentless rise in the zloty after it expanded into the neighbouring markets of Russia, Romania and Lithuania and now sells ...

Wealthy Russians are flocking to Australia's Gold Coast, attracting Russian developers eager to cash in on the development.

World Briefing | Europe Russia: Prison Terms in Market Bombing
New York Times, United States - 12 hours ago
The sentences were especially harsh for Russia, where rights groups complain that violence against non-Slavs goes largely unpunished.

Russia aim to prevent revenge attacks
Times Online, UK - 8 hours ago
The Russian authorities said yesterday that they were doing everything in their power to prevent revenge attacks on British supporters after a Russian fan ...

Russia shows its political clout by hosting Bric summit
Times Online, UK - 9 hours ago
A spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry said: “Bric unites the major economic growth centres with more than half the world's population, ...

Russia, Georgia joust over talk on Abkhazia base
Forbes, NY - 7 hours ago
By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI 05.15.08, 5:29 PM ET Tensions between Georgia and Russia got a jolt Thursday when a news agency quoted the head of the Russian ...

Christian Science Monitor
Cameroonian joins global quest for clean water
Christian Science Monitor, MA - 13 hours ago
Today, Mr. Nforba has joined a global community stretching from the United States to Russia to Africa dedicated to making potable water more available. ...

Christian Science Monitor
Hello, Russia! Can you hear us?
Christian Science Monitor, MA - 13 hours ago
It would take the train 6 days, 5 hours, and 22 minutes to arrive on the far side of Russia. Nikolai, I told the boys, would be getting off in Ekaterinburg. ...

Times Online
Jewels at the Lowry, Salford
Times Online, UK - 11 hours ago
It’s good to know that haughty Russian manners are not a thing of the past. Diamonds, the final section set to Tchaikovsky, is Balanchine’s tribute to the ...

Economist
Russia's government New jobs, old faces
Economist, UK - 26 minutes ago
If you did not know that Russia has just had a change of president, you would certainly not have guessed it. In the first week of Mr Medvedev's presidency, ...

Georgia and Russia Gather round the gorge
Economist, UK - 25 minutes ago
Russia, which protects the Abkhaz regime, insists that Georgia is planning to use Kodori to attack Abkhazia. That is unlikely. Georgia's modern but small ...

Disasters in China and Myanmar No time to sit back
Economist, UK - 26 minutes ago
China and Russia would veto any resolution in the Security Council. Politically, too, any action that defied the generals would be controversial. ...

Economist
Travel and tourism A new itinerary
Economist, UK - 26 minutes ago
Now fast-growing emerging economies—not just Dubai but also the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and others, such as South Korea and Vietnam—are ...

Economist
The UN and humanitarian intervention To protect sovereignty, or to ...
Economist, UK - 26 minutes ago
Even as he spoke, diplomats from China, Vietnam, South Africa and Russia were mocking his idea that the “responsibility to protect” (a new concept in global ...