MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Seven young men in Russia will spend between six and 20 years in prison for their involvement in 32 hate crimes, including 20 homicides, a Moscow court ruled.

MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- At least nine workers were reported killed and six others injured in an explosion at an open-cast mine in Russia's Murmansk region, police said Friday.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Georgia was not involved in the deadly bombing of a minibus in Russia's North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia this week, investigators said Friday.

MOSCOW, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A top Russian official said Sunday the country's banking industry has adequate cash to weather the current global financial maelstrom.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A Russian shipyard announced it would finish building a new guided-missile frigate for India by early next year.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Russia is going to extend its anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense system to integrate it with that of the neighboring former Soviet republic of Belarus.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The Russian Defense Ministry is accelerating its plans to reduce its armed service personnel by about 17 percent, or 200,000, in the next few years.

MOSCOW, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Mobile air defense units around Moscow will conduct live-fire exercises using Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile systems, a Russian military spokesman said.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Russia this weekend carried out another successful submarine-launched ballistic missile test that heralded its growing global strategic power.