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The European Union criticized Russia’s human rights record on Sunday, saying it was increasingly concerned at a wave of restrictive legislation and prosecutions against activists.

The widow of Alexander Litvinenko has launched a blistering attack onWilliam Hague and David Cameron, accusing them of sabotaging the inquest into her husband’s murder and hiding the Russian state’s role in his death.

Within the first two minutes of Alexander Lebedev walking into the bar of the five-star Connaught hotel in Mayfair, London, he has discussed – in an intense, amused, leaning-forward monotone – an 11th-century “special prison for rich Russians” he has restored, and a friend who wants to stay there (“I said, “OK – commit something”); his son […]

The father of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been summoned to appear before federal investigators.

A bribery scandal at French lender Societe Generale’s Russian entity Rosbank shows that stricter measures should be implemented by both Western and Russian companies to enforce compliance with their codes of conduct, experts said.

Senior Russian and American officials said on Wednesday that they were prepared to put a bizarre spy case behind them, even as the episode remained a matter of intense fascination to the Russian news media and the public.

Russia’s government is split over charging the central bank to support the economy as part of efforts to revive growth, leaving President Vladimir Putin to decide, according to an official familiar with the proposals.

President Vladimir Putin will soon start arriving at the Kremlin by helicopter in an attempt to appease drivers who blame his motorcade for creating traffic jams.

Russian pollsters vary in their estimates of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating. The Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) said 62 percent of Russians would vote for Putin if presidential elections were to take place this Sunday.

Investigators said Thursday that they have opened a criminal case into Rosbank chief executive Vladimir Golubkov and bank senior vice president Tamara Polyanitsina on bribery charges.