In a race with Canada, Denmark, Norway and the United States, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Friday “the Arctic must become Russia’s main strategic resource base.”

British spies are working at manipulating Russia's political landscape, the chief of Russia's national security agency said in an interview published Wednesday. Nikolai Patrushev, head of Russia's Federal Security Service made the remark in an interview with the weekly Argumenty i Fakty newspaper.

MOSCOW. Dec 22 (Interfax) - The parliamentary comm

By Alexander Natruskin MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police on Sunday broke up a human rights campaigners' rally calling on President Vladimir Putin to tell the whole truth about the deaths of more than 300 hostages in the Beslan school siege two years ago.

By Steven Lee Myers Nikolai Khalip contributed reporting from Moscow.