Hackers have stolen the user names and e-mail addresses of 20 million members of a Russian dating website and offered the information for sale online, according to a Web security company. Easy Solutions, the fraud-detection software-maker who unearthed the breach, did not identify the hacked website in its online statement, but the Bloomberg news agency said it was a St. Petersburg-based site called Topface.

Ukraine will issue domestic bonds amounting to 31.5 billion hryvnas ($2 billion) to support state energy firm Naftogaz, a document posted on the government's website said on Monday. Kiev, which is mired in an economic crisis, is under pressure to reform Naftogaz, whose financial deficit is significantly larger than the national budget deficit and requires government support to pay its bills.

U.S. President Barack Obama pauses while speaking during a visit to the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Jan. 22, 2015. NEW DELHI/KIEV — Pro-Moscow rebels, backed by what NATO says is the open participation of Russian troops, pressed on with their offensive on Sunday after restarting the war in eastern Ukraine with the first all-out assault since a truce five months ago. U.S. President Barack Obama said Washington was considering all options short of military action to isolate Russia.

Russia's consumer rights watchdog said Monday that it had imposed a temporary ban on salt imports from a state-owned Ukrainian producer, citing a violation of legislation. The Rospotrebnadzor watchdog said it had banned salt produced by Artyomsol, which is based in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists are fighting Ukrainian government forces.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, left, meeting Sergei Lavrov on Monday, when he offered to act as a go-between for Russia and Ukraine. KIEV/ST. PETERSBURG — Russian-backed rebels pushed forward Monday with a new offensive that has brought all-out war back to eastern Ukraine after a five-month ceasefire, bringing U.S. and European threats of tighter Western financial sanctions against Moscow.

A man walks past a burnt-out vehicle after a shelling by pro-Russian rebels of a residential sector in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Jan. 24, 2015. KIEV/ST. PETERSBURG — Russian-backed rebels pushed forward on Monday with a new offensive that has brought all-out war back to eastern Ukraine after a five-month cease-fire, bringing U.S. and European threats of tighter Western financial sanctions against Moscow.

KIEV — Seven Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in intensified clashes with pro-Russian rebels in the eastern conflict zone in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said Monday, reporting fierce fighting at the strategic small town of Debaltseve. Violence in eastern Ukraine is at its worst level since a cease-fire was agreed last September and casualties have mounted, including in the port city of Mariupol where Kiev says 30 civilians were killed in rebel shelling on Saturday.

A sign in the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. In March 1944, when the first Soviet liberator set foot on the grounds of Pechora — a Nazi death camp in Ukraine known commonly as the “dead loop” — 6-year-old survivor Aron Zusman locked eyes with the newcomer’s German shepherd. Zusman was sent to the camp at the age of four. Over the course of more than two years, Nazi guards had made a habit of sicking their own fearsome German shepherds on the young Jewish boy.

Sochi was ranked 11th out of 20 resorts on the Prime Ski Property Index. Russia's resort town of Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, has broken into the world's top 20 ski resorts by price growth for high end residences, according to a recent study by real estate agency Knight Frank. Sochi was ranked 11th out of 20 resorts on the Prime Ski Property Index, coming in just ahead of Switzerland's glitzy Gstaad.

Against the backdrop of renewed hostilities in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine, the Russian public paid little attention to the recent visit that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made to Iran. In practical terms, there was nothing sensational about it. Moscow only hinted at the possibility of renewing a contract for the sale of S-300 air defense systems to Tehran, although that question was never officially discussed.

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A Russian soldier salutes from a military vehicle during a rehearsal for a May 9 victory parade in St. Petersburg. U.S. missile defense “cannot stop” Russia's nuclear weapons, a top minister said, in an apparent reversal of Moscow's policy of slamming U.S. anti-ballistic missile capability as a dire threat to Russian security.

The debtors often rack up new debts in desperation to get their animals back. Collectors may soon be prohibited from seizing the high-end household pets of debtors who have defaulted on their loans. A bill to prohibit the alarming debt-collecting trend has been submitted to the State Duma for consideration.

People remove debris near the building damaged by shelling on Saturday in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Jan. 25, 2015. Russia blamed Kiev on Monday for a surge in fighting in Ukraine and warned the West that any attempt to increase economic pressure on Moscow would be "absolutely destructive" blackmail. Pro-Moscow separatists, backed by what NATO says are Russian troops, have launched an offensive in southeastern Ukraine and U.S.

Between 2009 and 2010, many Russians bought undeveloped plots at bargain prices with the plan of eventually saving up enough to build a dacha. Of all the possible reactions to a financial crisis, building a vacation home is perhaps one of the most unlikely. And yet, this is exactly what is happening in Russia right now. The number of orders to build houses and dachas on empty plots has tripled since the end of last summer, a report by construction company Nanokarkas found.