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Russian State Duma officials said Wednesday they would expedite consideration of constitutional amendments submitted by President Dmitry Medvedev that would extend presidential and parliamentary terms. The Duma's constitutional...

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday proposed constitutional amendments extending the presidential term from four to six years, and the term of members of the State Duma from four to five...

The Russian State Duma , the country's lower house of parliament, on Wednesday unanimously approved military defense agreements signed with Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia last month. The...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday pushed for the adoption of sweeping anti-graft legislation while opening the first meeting of the newly-established Anti-Corruption Council . Deflecting rumors that the...

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday signed military defense agreements with Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia despite heavy international criticism. Medvedev said that Russia now recognized the regions as...

The Moscow Prosecutor General's Office filed a motion Monday to ban the US animated series South Park , alleging it violates children's rights under international law. In a press release , the...

A lawyer for imprisoned Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Monday that the founder of the now-defunct Yukos oil company has appealed a Siberian court's rejection late last month of his request...

The North Atlantic Council (NAC) , made up of representatives from 26 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member nations, urged Russia to reverse its recognition of the independence of two Georgian territories [AP...

Georgia filed a complaint against Russia with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday, alleging that invading Russian troops have engaged in murder, rape and mass displacement of civilians during the...

Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office, said Wednesday that his staff is collecting evidence of war crimes allegedly committed by Georgian forces in the breakaway region of South Ossetia . European Union leaders are...