Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who is serving 25 years in a US federal prison on arms smuggling charges, has told Sputnik of an initial shock of seeing his family for the first time in seven years

The lower chamber of the Russian parliament intends to draft amendments that would make it possible to hold Facebook and Google responsible for breaching Russian laws, chairman of the State Duma commission on foreign meddling in Russian affairs said Friday

The Moscow City Court on Friday ruled to release actor Pavel Ustinov on his own recognizance not to leave town, changing the measure of restraint for him, a Sputnik correspondent reported Friday from the courtroom

Russian power equipment supply and engineering giant Inter RAO - Export said on Friday that it had signed with Cuban state electric energy power company Energoimport a road map for the project on a major overhaul of 10 power units with a single installed capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) at three Cuban thermal power plants

The gas price for Ukraine in the case of direct deliveries from Russia to Europe should be pegged to the European market, Ukrainian Energy Minister Oleksiy Orzhel said on Friday

The Ukrainian energy minister said on Friday that his country would consider the possibility of importing a "certain volume" of natural gas from Russia

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will visit Cuba in the near future, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said Friday at the opening of a meeting of the bilateral intergovernmental commission