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Russian investigators say at least three people have died in a fire at a retirement home in Siberia. The Investigative Committee said in a statement that 34 people have been evacuated to safety after the private retirement home in the city of Krasnoyarsk ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin took two days' holiday in southern Siberia Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who loves to cultivate a virile man-of-action image, was shown on Russian TV Saturday spear-fishing in a camouflage wetsuit, piloting a powerboat ...

Eight miners are missing after Russia's largest diamond mine in Siberia was flooded and efforts are on to locate them.

However, he did say the prize for Mr Corbyn's win should be a trip to Siberia. The businessman, who used to be a Labour Peer before he resigned under Ed Miliband and became independent - and supported the Conservatives in the recent general election, was ...

By Olesya Astakhova JARKUDUK, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - Lukoil plans to keep pumping 100 million tonnes of oil per year between 2018 and 2027 with projects outside Russia and will keep annual investment at $8 billion-$8.5 billion, the chief executive said on ...

By Olesya Astakhova and Chen Aizhu MOSCOW/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese conglomerate CEFC will buy a 14.16 percent stake in Russian oil major Rosneft for $9.1 billion from a consortium of Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority, strengthening the energy ...

By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Alexander Ershov LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian oil major Lukoil is considering selling its Swiss unit Litasco because new U.S. sanctions on Russia will make it harder for the Geneva-based energy trader to raise new funds, industry ...

Rajiv Gandhi was "genuinely interested" in developing military ties with the US and the former Indian prime minister had shown he could move Indias foreign policy in new directions, according to a declassified CIA document. Gandhis visits to then Soviet ...

By Nerijus Adomaitis and Katya Golubkova OSLO/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A gap in U.S. sanctions allows Western companies to help Russia develop some of its most technically challenging oil reserves, and risks undermining the broad aim of the measures, a Reuters ...