Moscow has refused to extradite a former Ukrainian security chief, sought by Kiev in connection with the 2004 poisoning of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.
A contest of famous persons sponsored by Russian state television has come back online after being temporarily shut for "technical reasons." So far, tsar Nikolai II and Joseph Stalin top the list.
Russia's president has signed a law which lets the government hand-pick which companies can tap into the vast resources thought to lie below the Arctic Ocean.
