Kremlin opponent Garry Kasparov attended the trial of onetime billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Wednesday, getting in a brief, heated exchange with one of the Russian prosecutors during a recess.

The Kremlin favorite won an overwhelming victory in Sunday’s mayoral election in the Russian city that will host the 2014 Winter Olympics, the top election official said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday dismissed the country’s military intelligence chief, a veteran who was reportedly opposed to Kremlin plans for sweeping military reform.

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev lent credence to his image as a cautious liberal Wednesday when a publication critical of the Kremlin ran his first Russian newspaper interview.

President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia’s government needs new people in top positions, a signal that he wants more clout in leadership circles dominated by allies of his predecessor Vladimir Putin.

If you’re inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn’t mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a n

Russia’s president seemed open Tuesday to discussing a U.S. plan to cancel an anti-missile system in Europe if Russia helps prevent Iran from developing long-range weapons, a proposal that could snugly fit the Kremlin’s strategic objectives.

Russia should use the economic crisis to put its relations with the West back on a good footing, a top Kremlin adviser said Thursday.

Minutes after protesters unfurled anti-Kremlin banners and chanted “Down with KGB power” and “Russia without Putin,” a dozen young men jumped out of cars and started to beat them with fists and metal rods.

A Kremlin spokeswoman says President Dmitry Medvedev is “ready to work constructively” with Washington on disarmament and other issues.