Iran has arrested a man for the stated rumour that Russian President Vladimir Putin has risked of being assassinated during his visit in Tehran in October.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country will aim its rockets at European targets if the United States goes ahead with plans to build a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned Thursday what he called U.S. "imperialism" in world affairs. The comments came during an increasingly tense period in U.S.-Russian relations.

Over the next three years Russia will invest over $1 billion of its oil and gas export revenues in buying equipment for nanotechnology research in an effort to diversify an economy now heavily dependent on raw materials, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Wednesday, April 18.

Gazprom is on the brink of sealing a takeover of the huge Sakhalin2 oil and gas project, the biggest of its kind in the world. The seizure has been engineered by the Putin regime which controls the ravenous Russian energy giant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decree to merge crude and oil product pipeline operators Transneft and Transnefteproduct within five months, Thompson Financial reported on Monday, April 16, quoting Kremlin press service.