Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has met two tycoons in an attempt to end their dispute over the world's largest nickel and palladium producer.
Russian police have detained more than 100 anti-Kremlin protesters, as officials had mentioned before that protesters without permits would be detained.
Thirty US senators have formally called on Moscow to implement "without further delay" a June agreement allowing the resumption of US poultry exports to Russia.
No-one was injured when parts of a tower block collapsed in the Russian city of St Petersburg, officials say.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit China, South Korea and Japan this autumn, aide Sergei Prikhodko said on Wednesday.
Russia hails the shift in the U.S.'s foreign policy towards multilateral diplomacy, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced during today's traditional lecture at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.