Police today broke up a demonstration by hundreds of opposition activists who had spent the night outside the presidential administration offices to protest Vladimir Putin's return as Russia's president.
Russia's parliament has approved former President Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister with a vote of 299-144.
The loss of the new Superjet 100 in Indonesia has dealt a heavy blow to the Russian aviation industry which hoped the first new civilian aircraft built in post-Soviet Russia would improve its image.
A powerful blast at around Friday midnight hit an about 240-km long natural gas pipeline connecting Azerbaijan and Russia.
Anders Behring Breivik, who goes on trial on Monday for killing 77 people in twin attacks in Norway in 2011, had a long wishlist of targets and methods that he considered in the years he spent plotting his massacre.
Jalaluddin Haqqani is one of the most important Taliban military commanders fighting against the Afghan government, and US forces in Afghanistan.