Five arrested at banned St. Paddy's parade in Moscow
Moscow police detained five people on Sunday for organizing an unauthorized St. Patrick's Day Parade.
// Mar. 21, 2011 - 07:23 GMT
Hobbit Frodo promotes labor unions in Russia's Far East
A student in Russia's Far East has won a labor union advertising competition with a cartoon starring characters from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the film version of the J.R. Tolkien classic.
// Mar. 11, 2011 - 06:49 GMT
Russian customs officials deprived of bonuses over New Year's party video
Thirteen Russian customs officials have been deprived of their bonuses over video footage of a New Year's party in a customs office in the Far East.
// Mar. 03, 2011 - 04:14 GMT
Russian Old Believers return home from Bolivia
Four families of Russian Orthodox Old Believers have returned to the Russian Far East from Bolivia, where they took refuge from the Stalinist repression early last century, local officials said on Friday.
// Feb. 25, 2011 - 06:51 GMT
Belarusian gays, lesbians picket Minsk ministry
Gay rights activists staged a protest outside Belarus's Justice Ministry in Minsk on Monday.
// Feb. 14, 2011 - 09:28 GMT
Russian child rights ombudsman urges foreign adoption freeze
Russia's children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov has called for a halt to adoptions of the country's children by foreign families until bilateral agreements to regulate adoptions are signed.
// Jan. 26, 2011 - 07:00 GMT
Siberian prisoners run Christmas half-marathon
Sixteen convicts at Omsk Penal Colony No. 8 have braved temperatures of minus 35 degrees Celsius to mark Russian Orthodox Christmas by running a half-marathon, regional prison officials said.
// Jan. 08, 2011 - 08:49 GMT