Police have rescued a woman who was forced into prostitution by her business partner to cover a debt.

The Sunday Times has published on its website what appears to be an online video address by the two women who blew themselves up on the Moscow Metro on March 29.

The chief executive of Russia's Sberbank and the country's former trade minister, German Gref, has testified at the defense’s request in the trial of former oil tycoon and ex-head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom has started to cut supplies to neighbour Belarus over its debt after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the reduction.

London’s main auction houses are hosting a whole week of sales of Russian pieces, ranging from paintings to medals to Faberge animals to a collection of articles only identified as belonging to “a European royal family.”

Thanks to charitable organizations and social services, the numbers of homeless children in Russia have gone down in recent years. Despite this, some still live on the streets.

One of the greatest netminders in the history of hockey, Dominik Hasek, will now play in the KHL, defending the goals of Spartak Moscow.

It is exactly 150 years since rowing was first introduced to Russia. To mark the anniversary, an event once regarded as one of the best of its kind in the world – the Moscow Regatta – has been brought back to life.

In their latest bid to stop oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, British Petroleum has maneuvered a cap over the ruptured undersea well.

The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft with Russian, Japanese cosmonauts and a US astronaut on board has successfully landed in Kazakhstan, after a total of 161 days at the International Space Station.