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A Russian arbitration court judge declared oil company Yukos bankrupt Tuesday and said the company may be liquidated to pay creditors. The decision, which had been expected, confirms a vote...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial law against extremism that a Kremlin statement described as "aimed at improving the definition of extremist activity by classifying socially dangerous actions as extremist." Crimes embraced by the legislation...

Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika announced Friday that a criminal investigation has been opened into the June abduction and murder of four Russian embassy employees in Iraq. In a statement, the Prosecutor General's office said...

US President George Bush has said he will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that non-governmental organizations should be able to function "without intimidation" and that Russia needs to have an "active civil society"...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a law that shortens the conscription term and wipes out five accepted reasons for military draft deferments. The law, passed by both houses of...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) killed the self-confessed mastermind of the 2004 Beslan school siege along with 12 other militants in an early morning special operation Monday, according...

The Russian Duma , the lower house of parliament, overwhelmingly passed a draft law Wednesday that would give Russian President Vladimir Putin the right to use Russia's armed forces and secret services...

European countries need to improve extradition and criminal cooperation procedures in order to face the growing threat of international crime, Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika told the seventh session of the Conference of Prosecutors General of Europe ...

Two Russian officials switched roles Thursday, as President Vladimir Putin appointed former Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov to the justice minister post several hours after former Justice Minister Yury Chaika was approved as the new prosecutor general in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin nominated Justice Minister Yury Chaika on Monday to be the country's new prosecutor-general . Leaders of the Federation Council , the upper house of parliament, said they...