| Russian Parliament Silences Opposition Lawmaker Ilya V. Ponomarev |
Russia’s Parliament voted Friday to bar Ilya V. Ponomarev from speaking on the floor for one month after he called members of the majority party “swindlers and thieves.”
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| The Saturday Profile: Putin’s Personal Wedge in a Culture War Between Urban and Rural |
Igor R. Kholmanskikh leads a movement comprised mostly of “Russia’s rednecks” in the service of President Vladimir V. Putin, who is seeking to divide the Moscow-based opposition.
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| Russians face up to their outer-space crisis |
 In the wake of a string of setbacks, Russia's top space officials acknowledge that the country's aerospace industry is in deep, deep trouble.
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| Anti-gay activists target PepsiCo's Russian unit |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An anti-gay activist group said it will picket shops selling milk produced by PepsiCo Inc's Russian subsidiary because they believe that a rainbow on the packaging violates a local law banning homosexual "propaganda". The milk brand is called Vesyoly Molochnik, which translates as Gay Milkman, though in Russian the word vesyoly does not suggest homosexuality. The group said that it was objecting to the rainbow, which it saw as the international symbol for the gay movement. ...
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| Forever heroes: Spirit of tragic Russian hockey stars lives on |
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| Nokia's Lumia 920 priced higher than rivals, available mid-November in Europe |
 Earlier this month, Nokia (NOK) unveiled the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 at a press event in New York City, but the Finnish vendor failed to announce pricing and launch information. While we continue to wait for U.S. launch details, three of the company's subsidiaries have revealed additional information regarding the phones' pricing and releases. Nokia Russia on Tuesday began accepting pre-orders for both devices, while Nokia Germany and Nokia Italy announced that the company's flagship Windows Phone 8 handset will launch in mid-November for $835 and $771, respectively, before taxes and subsidies. The lower-end Lumia 820 will be offered for an unsubsidized price of $643. By comparison, the Galaxy S III is available in Europe for roughly $680. BGR reported earlier
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Groups Pledge to Defy New Law |
Leading Russian nongovernmental organizations said Thursday that they would defy a new law requiring those who receive funds from abroad to register as “foreign agents.”
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| Chavez gets Russian oil investment _ and a puppy |
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Russia agreed to deepen its investments in Venezuela to tap new oilfields, while President Hugo Chavez thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for a personal gift - a puppy....
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| Russian TV host gets $2 million back from gov't |
 A glamorous Russian TV host who has emerged as a face of anti-Kremlin protests has won an unlikely victory in her battle against the government by seeing the return of nearly $2 million seized by authorities.
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| U.S. and Russian experts turn up volume on cybersecurity alarms |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Uncontrolled security threats on the Internet could return much of the planet to an era without electricity or automated transportation, top U.S. and Russian experts said on Thursday. Former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden warned that the United States had yet to resolve basic questions about how to police the Internet, let alone how to defend critical infrastructure such as electric generation plants. ...
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