Ivan Nechepurenko

While there is little doubt about the vote’s outcome, there is concern that an emboldened President Putin may use a win to start a new…

While there is little doubt about the vote’s outcome, there is concern that an emboldened President Putin may use a win to start a new…

The bank warned that its tight monetary policy would continue “for a long period” as it attempts slow an economy in danger of overheating.

The jump, from 13 percent, would bring a long period of “tight monetary conditions” in order to ease price pressures, the bank said.

The chairman of Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil company, fell to his death from a sixth-floor hospital window in Moscow.