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A 6.5-magnitude quake has been registered...
A 6.5-magnitude quake has been registered off the coast of northern California, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website on Sunday.
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A police officer in Dagestan killed his...
A police officer in Dagestan killed his ex-wife on Monday after an argument, then shot himself, a police spokesman in the Russian North Caucasus republic said.
A rescue vessel is expected to reach a refrigerator...
A rescue vessel is expected to reach a refrigerator ship in distress off Sakhalin in the next few hours, a rescue spokesman told RIA Novosti on Sunday.
Around 30 kilograms of heroin have been...
Around 30 kilograms of heroin have been seized in an operation in Moscow Region, local drug police said on Tuesday.
Closer cooperation with Russia should become...
Closer cooperation with Russia should become a major foreign policy priority for NATO, but better relations with Moscow cannot come at the expense of the security of eastern European alliance members, an influential U.S. foreign policy research center has said.
Dutch trainer Dick Advocaat has dismissed...
Dutch trainer Dick Advocaat has dismissed media speculation that he has signed a deal to take over from fellow countryman Guus Hiddink as trainer of the Russian national team.
Dynamo Moscow and Lokomotiv Moscow fans...
Dynamo Moscow and Lokomotiv Moscow fans have agreed to stay silent for the first 10 minutes of their derby clash on Sunday as a mark of respect for the 39 people who died in the twin suicide bombings on the city"s metro system.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said a failure in Copenhagen would be catastrophic and backed calls by developing nations to keep the Kyoto Protocol.
Germany took its first gold medal in 2010...
Germany took its first gold medal in 2010 Olympics Vancouver after Felix Loch won men"s luge.
Iran"s plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment...
Iran"s plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities are a rational response to world powers trying to resolve the Iran nuclear issue, the country"s nuclear chief said on Monday.
Legendary Formula One driver, seven-time...
Legendary Formula One driver, seven-time World Champion, Michael Schumacher, will return next year to "Royal Racing" at the age of 41 after signing a contract with the Mercedes Benz team on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, April 14 (RIA Novosti) - The Sakhalin...
MOSCOW, April 14 (RIA Novosti) - The Sakhalin Region in Russia’s Far East, a regional leader in production volumes, accrued foreign investment and foreign trade, presented over 15 investment projects worth $2.1 bln in Korea, the region’s governor said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Copyright...
MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Copyright piracy in Russia which has been a major obstacle to the country joining the WTO dropped by 15% in 2007, year-on-year, the Russian Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Russia, the second-largest market for pirated products after China, has been strongly criticized for its failure to protect intellectual property rights. Over 4,000 people were arrested in 2007, and more than 800 people in January-March this year for breaching copyright laws, said Vladimir Lukyanov, a deputy head of the ministry"s economic security department. Almost 4 million counterfeit items, mainly computer software, DVDs and CDs, worth an estimated 182 million rubles ($8 million) were seized last year, the official added. In 2007, Russia introduced a new law prohibiting the sale of pirated goods on Russian streets, kiosks and retail outlets. However, a spokesman for the economic security department, Vladimir Tsvetkov, said unlicensed CDs were now available for sale online over the Internet, especially in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 2006, Russia was ranked in the top 10 of the world"s worst offending countries for piracy according to a report by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA). The issue was a major stumbling block in Russia"s World Trade Organization accession talks with the United States. The sides eventually signed a final agreement in 2006 after Moscow promised to get tough on intellectual property violations. The problem of unlicensed software in Russia has been highlighted by the case of school principal Alexander Ponosov, charged with copyright violation after he bought a set of computers for his school containing unlicensed Microsoft software.
MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's...
MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Science and Education Ministry is in talks with the United States on a bilateral treaty to specify the responsibilities of U.S. parents who adopt Russian children, the minister said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...
MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian maritime expert said on Monday that "something extraordinary" must have happened to a cargo ship that went missing off Portugal"s Atlantic coast.
MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) - A Gazprom...
MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) - A Gazprom spokesman said Wednesday that the Russian energy giant expected "major new discoveries" of oil and gas reserves under the Arctic Ocean, and had large-scale prospecting plans for the region.
MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti) - Begging...
MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti) - Begging in Moscow"s subway appears to be a well-run business with a hierarchy and average monthly incomes of around $1,300, similar to a Metro driver"s salary, according to a Russian TV report.
MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - Alrosa...
MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - Alrosa, Russia"s largest diamond miner, said on Monday it would invest over $2.8 billion by 2014 in three new mines with total annual capacity of about 6 million metric tons of diamond ore.
MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has put its troops and border guards in South Ossetia on heightened alert over recent border provocations carried out by Georgia, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti) - A man...
MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti) - A man in Russia's Urals has admitted killing his wife after stumbling across her details on a dating website and discovering that she had cheated on him, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, July 26 (RIA Novosti) - Police have...
MOSCOW, July 26 (RIA Novosti) - Police have found a large cache of weapons in the capital of Russia"s troubled North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a local police source said on Sunday.
MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...
MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian regional court has given a deputy director of a local branch of Russia"s Civil Service Academy a 3 1/2 year suspended sentence for bribery. The court in Vladimir, to the east of Moscow, found Vladimir Starostin, a professor at the Academy"s management department, guilty of receiving a 100,000 ruble ($4,200) bribe in February this year from an applicant for helping him to become a student, local prosecutors said. The judgment comes as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a plan on Thursday to counter Russia"s rampant corruption. The president, a former lawyer, has made the fight against corruption one of his top priorities, signing a decree setting up a presidential anti-corruption council just two weeks after his inauguration.
MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - Tokyo has...
MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - Tokyo has overtaken Moscow to become the world"s most expensive city for expatriates, according to a survey by an HR and financial consultancy.
MOSCOW, June 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow...
MOSCOW, June 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow Region court sentenced in absentia fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky to 13 years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzling 58 million rubles ($1.9 million at current rates) in 1994.
Moscow may have jumped the gun in announcing...
Moscow may have jumped the gun in announcing that a Russia-U.S. arms control pact was ready to be signed, a White House spokesman indicated on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Former...
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has notified the International Criminal Tribunal that he would appeal the court"s decision to appoint a lawyer to defend him in the court.
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - North...
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - North Korea said Thursday that the recent exchange of gunfire between its patrol boat and a South Korean warship was not an accident but the result of a "conspiracy" in an attempt to escalate tension in the region.
MOSCOW, November 2 (RIA Novosti) - The volume...
MOSCOW, November 2 (RIA Novosti) - The volume of natural gas deliveries to Denmark via the Nord Stream pipeline could later be increased to 3 billion cubic meters a year, the Russian prime minister said on Monday.
MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - Former...
MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic attended a court session in The Hague for the first time on Tuesday, telling the judges he needed more time to prepare his defense.
MOSCOW, November 6 (RIA Novosti) - The shooter...
MOSCOW, November 6 (RIA Novosti) - The shooter in a rampage at the Fort Hood military base in the U.S. state of Texas on Thursday has been identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, who was a psychiatrist, CNN quoted law enforcers as saying.
MOSCOW, October 12 (RIA Novosti) - An important...
MOSCOW, October 12 (RIA Novosti) - An important reason for Turkey"s decision to sign a deal on restoring diplomatic ties with Armenia is that it feels cheated by the West and wants to secure its economic interests, a Russian analyst said on Monday.
MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev along with other leaders of the CSTO member states will attend on Friday the final stage of a post-Soviet rapid reaction force exercise in Kazakhstan.
MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...
MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Defense Ministry is preparing a response to a U.S. revision of its missile shield plans in Central Europe, the Russian defense minister said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian...
MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Prosecutor"s Office has rejected an application by the head of the Russian Imperial House to reopen a criminal case into the murder of the country"s last tsar, a lawyer said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to conduct negotiations with Kyrgyzstan on rental payment for Russian military facilities in the Central Asian country in 2009.
MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Fugitive...
MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Fugitive Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky could soon lose more than $150 million when a British court rules on his divorce from wife, the Daily Mail newspaper said on Monday.
MOSCOW/PARIS, August 15 (RIA Novosti) -...
MOSCOW/PARIS, August 15 (RIA Novosti) - The tracking device aboard the Russian-crewed Arctic Sea, missing since late July, was briefly reactivated on Saturday showing the vessel to be located in the Bay of Biscay, a Russian maritime journal said.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator...
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Mikhail Khmelev) - Investing in real estate is one of the most attractive and profitable ways of making money everywhere.
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - U.S. President Barack Obama has decided to scrap the Bush administration"s plans for a missile tracking radar in the Czech Republic and antimissiles in Poland. This has displeased Poland and has not made the Czech government, Republican congressmen and American neoconservatives happy.
MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - The...
MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - The Arctic Sea dry cargo ship will soon be handed over to Malta, but Russian investigators will need a few more days to complete work on board the vessel, investigators said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti) - The...
MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti) - The international community could still tighten sanctions against Iran, a senior member of the Russian parliament said on Monday.
MOSCOW, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russian and Belarusian presidents will meet during the final stage of military drills in the Belarusian city of Baranovichi on Tuesday to discuss trade and military ties.
MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - Some...
MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - Some $1.5 billion was invested in central Russia’s Novgorod Region in 2004-2008, the region’s governor said on Wednesday.
Motorists in Moscow have ignored the city"s...
Motorists in Moscow have ignored the city"s requests to forsake their cars for public transport in January, forcing the authorities to tow 25,000 vehicles that were obstructing snow clearance, an official said.
NATO members are ready to send 7,000 additional...
NATO members are ready to send 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday.
NHL star Alexander Ovechkin expects to play...
NHL star Alexander Ovechkin expects to play Canada in the Olympic ice hockey quarterfinals, and says the Russian team will have to play as one to win.
On December 5, 2009, the Strategic Arms...
On December 5, 2009, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), one of the key arms control treaties ended. This carefully developed agreement, which included a wide range of mutual monitoring measures, was signed before the collapse of the Soviet Union, but came into force only in December 1994.
Police has grabbed hold of a video footage...
Police has grabbed hold of a video footage showing a notorious gang leader in Russia"s North Caucasus known as Alexander Tikhomirov or Said Buryatsky just minutes before he was killed in a FSB sweep, a law enforcement source said on Saturday.
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Rescue workers have pulled out a survivor...
Rescue workers have pulled out a survivor who spent 11 days trapped under rubble after a powerful quake hit Haiti, BBC has said.
RIGA, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - Latvia has...
RIGA, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - Latvia has asked Russia to provide more information on two Latvian nationals Moscow says were involved in the seizure of the merchant ship Arctic Sea, the Baltic state"s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Russia has lost two cases in the Strasbourg...
Russia has lost two cases in the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights over the disappearance of several people in Chechnya, the statement on the court"s website said on Friday.
Russia is likely to send its new ambassador...
Russia is likely to send its new ambassador, Mikhail Zurabov, to Ukraine after next year"s presidential elections in the ex-Soviet state, Russia"s former envoy to Ukraine said on Monday.
Russia is planning to develop a unique satellite...
Russia is planning to develop a unique satellite system to monitor climatic changes and survey energy resources in the Arctic region, Russia"s top space official said on Thursday.
Russia may drop two time zones when it switches...
Russia may drop two time zones when it switches to daylight saving time on March 28.
Russian businessmen have a responsibility...
Russian businessmen have a responsibility to help improve the economic and social situation in the country"s volatile North Caucasus region, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
Russian opposition parties expressed satisfaction...
Russian opposition parties expressed satisfaction with the results of Sunday"s regional legislative elections seen as a popularity test for the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has awarded...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has awarded a Moscow firefighter who died on Saturday while trying to save victims of a fire the title "Hero of Russia", the president"s spokesman said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on Interior Ministry personnel cuts, the Kremlin press service said Thursday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged on Monday Israelis and Palestinians to follow the roadmap of the Middle East peace settlement and give up unilateral actions.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Karim Masimov agreed Sunday by phone that Masimov will visit the Russian capital on March 3, the Russian government said.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on Thursday for the conservation of endangered polar bears, Caucasian and Far Eastern leopards.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday that Russia"s energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine"s gas monopoly Naftogaz should create a joint holding.
Russian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant...
Russian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant on charges of office abuse for a police officer, who was fired after posting a video on the web asking Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to launch a nationwide corruption probe.
Russia"s drug control chief said on Thursday...
Russia"s drug control chief said on Thursday he had a problem with NATO"s reluctance to eliminate opium plantations in Afghanistan.
Russia will provide by the end of 2010 the...
Russia will provide by the end of 2010 the first batch of low-enriched uranium for an international nuclear fuel reserve bank under control of the UN nuclear watchdog, the head of Russia"s state-run nuclear power corporation Rosatom said.
Sales of all alcoholic beverages, including...
Sales of all alcoholic beverages, including beer, should be prohibited in Russia between 9:00 p.m. and until morning, Russia"s chief sanitary doctor said.
Talks on the prohibition of tactical nuclear...
Talks on the prohibition of tactical nuclear weapons deployment in third countries should be the next step in arms control, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
TBILISI, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - The...
TBILISI, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - The former Georgian ambassador to Russia said on Wednesday he would take Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to court for the return of a stake in the Rustavi-2 television channel.
The Arabic edition of the Moscow News, Anbaa...
The Arabic edition of the Moscow News, Anbaa Mosku, re-launched three months ago after a 17-year break, is being extensively read across the Middle East, the MENAFN news agency reported on Monday.
The board chairman of Russian oil and gas...
The board chairman of Russian oil and gas company Trans Nafta was found dead in his company office in the Russian capital on Saturday, a source in Moscow police said.
The deal extending Russia"s use of a naval...
The deal extending Russia"s use of a naval base in Ukraine"s Crimea is economically beneficial for both Moscow and Kiev, the Russian ambassador to Ukraine said on Friday.
The father of a 4-year-old girl who was...
The father of a 4-year-old girl who was seeking to join the Russian Interior Ministry special forces died on Thursday in the Ural"s Sverdlovsk Region after being severely beaten during a sparring exam, medical staff said.
The Kyrgyz Prosecutor General"s Office charged...
The Kyrgyz Prosecutor General"s Office charged nine officials in connection with the violent crackdown on demonstrators in Bishkek in early April, which left dozens of people dead, the 24.kg news agency said on Wednesday.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will jump...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will jump straight to its maximum energy without any medium-energy proton collisions, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said on its website.
The leader of Russia"s North Caucasus republic...
The leader of Russia"s North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia invited local elders on Wednesday to help a local government commission control spending.
The much-heralded "reset" in Russia-U.S...
The much-heralded "reset" in Russia-U.S. relations has become a reality, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
The officials responsible for the preparation...
The officials responsible for the preparation of Russia"s Winter Olympic team must submit their resignations, the Russian president said on Monday.
The Russian airbase in Kant, around 20 kilometers...
The Russian airbase in Kant, around 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, is continuing to function normally, a Russian Air Force spokesman, Vladimir Drik, said on Thursday.
The Russian Defense Ministry plans to spend...
The Russian Defense Ministry plans to spend around 24 billion rubles ($790 million) on drills and exercises involving all braches of service, the chief of the General Staff said on Thursday.
The total number of unemployed people in...
The total number of unemployed people in Russia may rise to 6.7 million as almost half a million people are in danger of losing their jobs, a deputy premier said on Wednesday.
Two men jailed in connection with an attack...
Two men jailed in connection with an attack on the Nevsky Express train in August 2007 will take their appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, the lawyer of one of the men told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.