Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Sweden Tuesday to extradite two men it says are Chechen separatists and accuses of involvement in killings and kidnappings.
AFP - There is a chance that a new US-Russian treaty on nuclear arms cuts will be ready in the next two or three weeks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
AP - A new treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals could be signed within two or three weeks, Russian news agencies cited Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying Tuesday.
AP - Russia's largest steelmaker Severstal on Tuesday posted a $162 million net loss in the fourth quarter of 2009 but signalled confidence in the year ahead.
Time.com - A wave of anti-Putin protests across Russia offers a glimmer of hope to those working to end his rule. But the Russian Prime Minister is not going anywhere soon
AFP - Russian forces have killed eight suspected rebels and arrested 10 others in a raid that also found clues on two bomb attacks on trains in 2007 and 2009, the FSB security service said Saturday.
Reuters - Russia's Federal Security Service chief on Saturday confirmed the death of a prominent Islamist rebel who he accused of plotting a bomb attack on a Moscow-to-St Petersburg train that killed 26 people last year.
Reuters - Iran has given Russian commercial pilots working in the Islamic Republic two months to leave the country as it has no need for them, Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani was quoted as saying on Saturday.
Reuters - The president of Russia's volatile Caucasian republic of Ingushetia Saturday confirmed reports that Russian forces killed a senior Islamist rebel, local newswire reported.