Moscow: “The U.S. govt does not & will not fund Russian political parties, movements, candidates,or politicians, only exchanges & non-partisan NGOs,” said the US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on a micro-blogging site. Ambassador McFaul arrived at his current posting in January and has the task of a ‘reset’ in US – Russia relations. The [...]

Defective Russian Mars probe Fobos-Grunt returned to Earth on Sunday, landing in the Pacific Ocean, Interfax news agency reports. Debris from the 13.5-ton space vehicle fell into the ocean at around 1745 GMT, said Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin. Russian space experts, monitoring the probe’s descent, kept adjusting its predicted trajectory, calculating that chances [...]