Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has made an outspoken attack on those seeking to rehabilitate former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Millions of Soviet citizens died under Stalin’s rule and Mr Medvedev said it was not possible to justify those who exterminated their own people. He also warned against efforts to falsify history and defend repression. Some Russian politicians have recently tried... 

I think I should speak to dissidents. Let them tell me what problems the United States has, that won’t be bad, considering the Soviet experience, Medvedev told members of the Valdai international debate club on September 15. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wants to meet with American dissidents when he visits the United States for the UN General Assembly and a G-20 summit later this month. Just... 

According to Wikipedia, Telman Ismailov is a Russian entrepreneur and businessman of Azerbaijani Mountain Jew descent. To launch his new hotel, Telman Ismailov hired a private jet to fly in 242lb of Beluga caviar and paid Paris Hilton, Sharon Stone and Richard Gere to attend the party. The sprawling Mardan Palace on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, which boasts 560 rooms and a five-acre pool, cost £1... 

Russian gamblers are placing their final bets before casinos close down for good in Moscow and other big cities. A new law that comes into effect Wednesday says gambling must now be confined to four far-flung special zones. Casinos and slot machines will now be allowed to operate only in Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, the Primorsky region on the Pacific coast, the Altai region in Siberia and near the... 

Jewish Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has been found guilty of a £3million ($4.5m) fraud. Russian prosecutors have demanded a 15 year jail sentence for the London-based billionaire, who has accused the Kremlin of the murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. He was not present at the trial. Outspoken Kremlin critic, Berezovsky, 63, was found guilty of embezzlement for activities in Russia’s...