In April of 1998 a video was made by three Federal Security agents claiming that they had been given orders to kidnap, kill and frame some prominent Russians. They said they were making the tape to insure that if something happened to them the truth would be known.

It’s almost time for the French Open; a tournament that has elevated the careers of quite a few Russian tennis players. In 1996 Yevgeny Kafelnikov won the French open and became the first Russian Grand Slam titlist. Eight years later, in 2004, two Russian women players battled it out in the finals with Anastasia Myskina [...]

Russia has filed a $22.5 billion lawsuit against the Bank of New York through its Federal Customs Service last Thursday. The lawsuit alleges that the Bank of New York participated in a money laundering scheme that eventually caused the Russian Federation 22.5 billion dollars of loss.

This past weekend in the Volgograd mayor’s election the Communist candidate, Roman Grebennikov won in a decisive victory over the United Russia candidate, Vasily Galushkin. That makes Grebennikov the first Communist mayor of a major city for the first time in a long time, as well as being the youngest mayor of a regional capital [...]

In Moscow, Russian Orthodox leaders have signed an agreement to start to patch up an 80-year split between the Russian Orthodox Church and the offshoot formed after the 1917 Revolution, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. The split occurred because the Russian church refused to defy the Communist government.