Snow squirrel

A squirrel in a Moscow park during the first snows of the winter

Hip-hop loving Putin gets down with Russian youth

Vladimir Putin's appearance on a youth TV show went down well with Russian rappers

Mayor of Moscow slams Abramovich ‘self-interest’

Billionaire's husband criticises Chelsea owner for 'patronage for one's own profit'

Ferguson charged over Wiley fitness comments

And a bad day gets worse as five Man Utd regulars miss trip to Moscow

Huskies race

A team of Alaskan malamute sled dogs compete in a race

The Northeast Passage - the next Suez Crisis?

Climate change could open up the Northeast Passage but it could also give Russia the means to blackmail the West

‘Anti-paparazzi’ device fitted to Abramovich yacht

'Laser shield' will prevent photographers snapping Roman and Dasha aboard their luxury vessel

GQ magazine ‘censors’ its attack on Vladimir Putin

Publishers Conde Nast accused of timidity after anti-Putin article is kept out of Russia

Arctic Sea: did Mossad prevent an arms shipment from Russia to Iran?

A Russian journalist has put forward a tantalisingly plausible theory of why the cargo ship was hijacked