Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a new list of the Central Election Commission (CEC) members which did not include the commission's current chairman Vladimir Churov, The Moscow Times informs.

The GBP/USD continued to mount a comeback on Wednesday, March 2, as technically oversold conditions encouraged speculative buying, short-covering and profit-taking.

North Korea faces harsh new U.N. sanctions to starve it of money for its nuclear weapons program following a unanimous Security Council vote on Wednesday on a resolution drafted by the United States and Pyongyang's ally China, Reuters informs.

Russian media reports a prosecutor asked a Russian court on Wednesday to jail Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko for 23 years and tofineher of 100,000 rubles ($1,400), saying she was guilty of complicity in killing two Russian journalists reporting on the fighting in east Ukraine in summer 2014.

In Russia work continues on carrying out the infrastructure development programme, including airport construction.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke over the telephone with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the initiative of the US side on March 1.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council annual session on March 1.

The last rating from U.S. magazine Forbes reports Leonid Mikhelson, chief executive and co-owner of Novatek, has become Russia's richest men with wealth estimated at $14.4 billion, overtaking Vladimir Potanin.

Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych who was removed from power in a coup two years ago intends to come back to the country and serve as its president, his lawyer VItaly Serdyuk said on Tuesday.

Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar on Sunday for his leading role in the film "The Revenant."

A woman dressed all in black and holding a child’s severed head has been arrested near a Moscow metro station "Oktyabrskoye pole". The 38-year old Uzbek national, Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, was shouting, “Allahu Akbar” and reportedly threatened to blow herself up.

The head of GazpromnAlexei Miller briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the company’s results in 2015, and discussed, in particular, gas supply figures for the domestic and European markets and the programme for connecting Russia’s regions to the gas network. The meeting took place in Moscow, on February 29.