Three-time Stanley Cup winner Sergey Fedorov, currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the KHL, told RT that Canada are the favorites in the upcoming Winter Olympics.

All Russian state services must be digitalized by 2015, President Dmitry Medvedev has said. He defined information technologies as one of the key directions for the country

Russia has strengthened its borders with Georgia amid concerns that an armed squad might be sent from Georgian territory to commit terror acts in Russia.

While banking bonuses have become a hot topic in many countries, the economic downturn is putting pressure on a time honoured Russian corporate custom.

Providing all public services through internet will make life easier for Russians and also help tackling corruption says Sandy Higgs, a blogger and contributor to rt.com.

For most expats in Moscow, Wednesday was the last working day before settling down or jetting off for Christmas and also a good time to have a drink and look back on the year that was.

Beneficiary of the Cathedral of the Ascension of Satino-Russkoe village in Moscow region archpriest Aleksandr Filippov was shot dead on Tuesday evening in the doorway of his apartment building.

"Sleeping with the leader does not mean having the exclusive right to him."This may sound like a line from a soap opera, but in fact, these were the words of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. But who where they addressed to?

After the recent snowfalls in Moscow, authorities have returned to the idea of cleaning the sky of the capital by bombing the clouds.

Eight Indian tigers and an African lioness have died while being carried by a truck to a circus in Yakutsk, East Siberia. Police said the animals were poisoned by the vehicle