| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Charges for Opposition Leader in Plotting Riots |
Sergei Udaltsov, a leader of the Left Front, is the most prominent opposition figure to face prison under an increasingly severe Kremlin crackdown on the protest movement against the government of Vladimir V. Putin.
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| World Briefing | Europe: England: Belarussian Is Granted Asylum |
Andrei Sannikov, a prominent dissident from Belarus and former presidential candidate, has been granted political asylum in Britain, his wife said Friday.
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| Slap Shot: Planned K.H.L. Games at Barclays Center Are Moved Back to Russia |
The matches between Dynamo Moscow and SKA St. Petersburg, scheduled for Jan. 19 and 20, were to be the first hockey games played at the new Brooklyn arena, where the Islanders will be moving in 2015.
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| Ericsson Profit Drops 42% as Orders Are Delayed |
The Swedish maker of telecommunications equipment said wireless carriers in Europe, China, Russia and South Korea were postponing building newer, faster grids.
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| Russian Protest Leader May Face Up to 10 Years in Jail |
Russian protest leader Sergei Udaltsov has been charged with plotting mass disorder on Friday and could face up to 10 years behind bars if found guilty. "If anyone expected me to flee abroad, they were mistaken," Left Front leader Udaltsov, 35, said as he reported to investigators for questioning. "The Putin regime will be on trial," he wrote later on Twitter, as cited by RIA Novosti. ...
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| US-Russian trio hooks up with space station |
 A Russian Soyuz space capsule linked up with the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering three new residents to the orbiting laboratory.
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| 5 hot emerging market blue chips |
Investing in emerging markets can be risky, but there are plenty of safe bets in Brazil, Russia, India and China.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_news_international/~4/CaYShUYsDC0" height="1" width="1"/>
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Three Militants Said to Be Killed |
Russia’s police and security services said Wednesday that they had killed three Islamic militants suspected of organizing back-to-back attacks in the Rupublic of Tatarstan in July.
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| Sports Briefing | Soccer: Day of Upsets in Europe |
Germany’s Bundesliga champion BoRussia Dortmund held on for a 2-1 win over visiting Real Madrid on a day of upsets in the Champions League on Wednesday.
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| Russia activist was tortured in custody, rights group says |
Leonid Razvozzhayev says he was seized in Ukraine and taken to Russia, where he was forced to sign a confession, the group says. Authorities deny the claim.MOSCOW — An opposition activist being held by Russian authorities says he was kidnapped from Ukraine, tortured and forced to sign a confession, a human rights group said Wednesday.
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