Political parties in Russia

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's United Russia party has won by a landslide the elections held in the country on Sunday, but has lost some support, exit polls have suggested.

Early poll results have shown the same four parties that made up the current Russian legislation in 2011 will have MPs in the 450-seat Parliament, daily Kommersant reports.

Syria's destiny should be decided by its citizens who will choose their country’s leadership, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said.

In a message posted on his Facebook account, Medvedev wrote:

Buried and long forgotten, the head of a giant Lenin statue is set to make a comeback in the German capital a quarter-century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Soviet leader will gaze again on the people when the 3.5 ton piece is resurrected from its current grave, a sandpit under a pile of rocks home to a colony of lizards.

Russia was close to Yugoslav-style disintegration - Putin

ST. PETERSBURG -- Russia was "pretty close to following the Yugoslav scenario" in the late 1990s, President Vladimir Putin has told a meeting of the All-Russia Popular Front.

German Bund yields fell back towards record lows on Friday, as the European Central Bank's bond-buying programme offset the improving appetite for riskier assets following a Greek debt repayment and the impact of stronger U.S. jobs data.

Bulgarian nationalist party Ataka seems to have a key role in the International Russian Conservative forum held March 22 in St Petersburg, Russia.

Ataka's leader Volen Siderov is one of only nine people described as "foreign participants" in a list that pops up after setting one's mouse on the "Partners and participants" section.

The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) announced that, starting from Monday, its leader Mihail Mikov is on an official visit to Russia, but the reason for his visit remains undisclosed.

Mikov is to meet Chairman of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin as well as the leader of the social-democratic party A Just Russia Sergey Mironov on Tuesday, the party's press office informs.