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The driver of a taxi that ran into a crowd in central Moscow on Saturday tried to run away, but was caught and detained by police.
Russia's government has proposed raising value-added tax (VAT) to 20 percent from 18 percent, starting from 2019, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has become something of a "persona non grata" in the West, but at home he's more popular than ever.
Russia has never pushed U.S. businesses away despite the "confusion" and "emotion" surrounding sanctions, the chief executive of the American Chambers of Commerce in Russia, told CNBC on Thursday.
Procter & Gamble will keep investing in Russian plants in 2018 and beyond, reaffirming its commitment to the market despite political risks.
French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Russia Thursday where the Iranian nuclear deal, Russia-European relations, Ukraine and trade are the main topics on the agenda.
President Vladimir Putin has set ambitious growth targets for Russia but the country must not sacrifice macro-economic stability to get there, the central bank governor told CNBC.
New York is still the billionaire capital of the world. But Hong Kong is catching up fast.
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Kaspersky Lab said part of the new facility would be based in Zurich, and the company had chosen Switzerland for its "policy of neutrality."
Two Democratic senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Sheldon Whitehouse, have written to the banks, which include Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase and Citibank as well as Europe-based Barclays, Deutsche Bank , UBS, HSBC and Credit Suisse.
The U.S. is giving American customers of Rusal more time to comply with sanctions.
A Republican strategist leapt to the defense of President Donald Trump following comments made by former FBI Director James Comey at the weekend.
Moscow responded to Trump's tweet about an imminent U.S. military strike in Syria Wednesday.
The message from the Treasury is that no oligarch can escape economic punishment for involvement in the Russia's alleged transgressions.
The U.S. Treasury's measures aim to make it as hard as possible for certain oligarchs with extensive involvement in international markets to do business abroad.
Australia has followed the leads of the U.K. and U.S. in expelling Russian diplomats over a nerve agent attack in the U.K. that was blamed on Moscow.
The nerve agent used in an attack on a former spy and his daughter could have come from a research laboratory in the United Kingdom, Russia's EU ambassador said, the BBC reported on Sunday.
Russians began voting in a presidential election on Sunday, and are set to give Vladimir Putin a commanding victory that could only be blemished if large numbers do not bother taking part because the result is so predictable.
Russia says it is expelling 23 British diplomats and will shut the British Council in Russia, in retaliation for London's decision to kick out 23 Russians over a nerve agent attack on British soil.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a series of measures to punish Russia following a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury in early March.
