MOSCOW, July 5 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says there's no pardon in the works for imprisoned oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was once the country's richest man.

WASHINGTON, May 11 (UPI) -- Recent explosions on natural gas pipelines in Moldova and Turkmenistan connected to Gazprom’s grid in Russia generated strained relations with the two nations, but the incidents were dwarfed by a massive explosion on a natural gas line owned by independent pipeline company Mosgaz in southwest Moscow early Sunday morning. What all three incidents have in common is revealing an issue that Russian natural gas and oil pipeline operators would much rather keep quiet -- the increasingly decrepit condition of post-Soviet nations’ pipeline infrastructure, most of it dating from the Soviet era.

MOSCOW, April 7 (UPI) -- Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has paid $4.2 billion to Italy's Eni for its 20 percent share in the oil producing firm Gazprom Neft, Eni said Tuesday.

MOSCOW, April 1 (UPI) -- A human rights activist and former member of the Russian parliament says he was beaten outside his home in Moscow.

MOSCOW, March 25 (UPI) -- The board of directors at Russian gas giant Gazprom gave preliminary approval for the repurchase of a 20-percent stake in Gazprom Neft from Italian companies.

MOSCOW, March 3 (UPI) -- The founder of former Russian energy giant Yukos and a business partner were in court Tuesday for hearings in a multibillion-dollar embezzlement case.

MOSCOW, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- More than 80,000 people have signed an Internet petition urging Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to release an imprisoned pregnant lawyer.

CHITA, Russia, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- A judge ordered Mikhail Khodorkovsky back to prison Friday, denying parole for the founder of the former Russian oil giant Yukos.

MOSCOW, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A former executive with the Russian oil giant Yukos now living in Israel was sentenced in absentia Friday to life in prison for murder.