Dmitry Medvedev was met with whoops of excitement from a small crowd when he arrived to inspect a run-down apartment block in this depressed town in Russia's Arctic north.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has pardoned four people jailed for passing secrets to the West as part of a Cold War-style spy swap with the United States, local news agencies reported on Friday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev infuriated Tokyo by visiting one of the islands - called the Southern Kuriles in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan - on Nov. 1, ahead of this weekend's ...