The Moscow office of rights group Amnesty International has been sealed off by municipal officials without warning and staff cannot get inside, the group said on Wednesday.
Russia is aiming to keep its oil production at near-record levels despite Opec's decision to modestly reduce its output, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday.
Eight Russian firefighters were killed as they battled a blaze at a warehouse in eastern Moscow, authorities said on Friday, in the latest deadly fire to hit the capital.
FIFA on Wednesday said work on Moscow's flagship Luzhniki stadium for the 2018 World Cup appeared to be on course, ahead of a visit to the delay-hit arena in Saint Petersburg.
At least 16 people died in a fire that broke out at a Moscow warehouse on Saturday morning, Russian authorities said.
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko returned home to a hero's welcome on Wednesday after nearly two years in a Russian prison, drawing a line under a damaging diplomatic spat between Moscow and Kiev.
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said a faltering truce in Syria must be "brought back on track" as he held talks in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on ending a fresh upsurge in fighting.
An 11-year-old Russian girl managed to fly from Moscow to Saint Petersburg after sneaking onto a plane by mingling with other passengers, authorities said.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said yesterday that jailed pilot Nadiya Savchenko had agreed to end her hunger strike ....
A fire ripped through a Russian Defence Ministry building in central Moscow on Sunday, sending plumes of smoke over the Russian capital as firefighters battled to extinguish the blaze.
A nanny accused of decapitating a young girl in her care then walking through the street brandishing the head, said "Allah ordered" the killing as she appeared at a Moscow court.
Moscow police on Monday arrested a nanny for beheading a young girl in her care, with witnesses saying the black-clad woman was carrying a severed head and threatening to "blow everyone up".
