Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Cigarette butts can take years to decompose and release heavy metals and pollutants during that time Stricter measures to stop people dropping cigarette butts on the streets [ ... ]

LESS than 24 hours after Alexei Navalny (pictured with his wife), Russia’s leading opposition leader, was pronounced guilty, sentenced to five years in a prison camp and led away in handcuffs from the court room, he was returned to the same court-r [ ... ]

 The global economic crisis has been gathering pace recently. According to IMF forecasts, the growth rate of the economy in 2013 will drop to 3.3 percent. Officials with Russia's Ministry for Economic Development said that the slowdown in the domest [ ... ]