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Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 17:54. Inside every recession there's a silver lining and in this one it's falling oil prices, down from $147 a barrel in July to $48 this week and maybe headed toward ...

Catching market players offguard, the country's foreign reserves rose by $5 billion last week, their first reported gain since the crisis took off in late September.

At a checkpoint in this rocky region, Russian troops can be seen digging trenches, piling sandbags and stringing fences -- the beginning of what could become a fortified frontier.

Bad-Neighbor Policy By Yulia Latynina To Our Readers The Moscow Times welcomes letters to the editor.

Misha Japaridze / AP German Sterligov, one of Russia's first multimillionaires, exercising outside his house in Nizhnevasilyevskoye, about 100 kilometers northwest of Moscow.

VEB, in charge of Russian refinancing scheme, is asking for a $34.0 billion capital injection.

Bitter anti-U.S. rhetoric from the Kremlin has been seen as a symptom of Russia's return to its Soviet past.

Russia has angrily accused Ukraine of sending weapons and military personnel to help Georgia fight its war with Russia.

The presidential envoy to the Urals Federal District, which includes the country's main oil and gas-producing regions, died of heart failure Tuesday in Moscow, Interfax reported.

Anyone who thinks that oil and wealth automatically go hand in hand obviously hasnt been paying attention to export revenues in recent months.

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin always considered himself an advocate of the free market, while the members of Britain's Labor Party have often been criticized for being too socialist.

The Media Crisis By Alexei Pankin I recently heard a heartbreaking story about a journalist who lost three different jobs in one month.

The Russian military will upgrade its missiles in response to U.S. plans for weapons in space, a top Russian general reportedly said Monday.

People vote at a polling station in St. Petersburg, Dec. 2007. Photograph by : Reuters Russia's Communists expect the global financial crisis will cause social unrest and help them challenge for power, the ...

HAVANA: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met former Cuban leader Fidel Castro yesterday as Moscow rebuilt ties with its Cold War ally during a trip to expand its political and economic reach in Latin America.

Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, visited Moscow on 1-2 November.

KALININGRAD, Russia : This is what passes for humor in Kaliningrad these days: Iskander missile tourism.

MOSCOW, November 25 Putin proposes new security principles for Europe/Russia, West ready to monitor parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan/Russians disappointed in government yet trust prime ...

TOMSK, Russia : For years, the earth in this Siberian city had been giving up clues: a scrap of clothing, a fragment of bone, a skull with a bullet hole.

Russian president will meet Fidel Castro tonight after signing oil exploration and nickel mining deals with brother Raul today Russian and Cuban presidents, Dmitry Medvedev with Raul Castro, arm in arm as they ...