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A dog infected with rabies had bitten dozens...
A dog infected with rabies had bitten dozens of people in southeastern Moscow before being caught in the local district of Zhulebino, a source in the local administration has said.
Although Arctic issues and those of the...
Although Arctic issues and those of the Arctic Ocean have only been discussed by the few littoral nations until now, it appears that the region will soon be reorganized on a grand scale.
A Moscow court rejected on Thursday a lesbian...
A Moscow court rejected on Thursday a lesbian couple"s appeal against an earlier ruling upholding a registry office"s refusal to register their marriage.
A passenger airliner bumped into another...
A passenger airliner bumped into another one as it was taxing at the Vnukovo airport in the west of Moscow, no one was hurt in the incident, one of the passengers told RIA Novosti.
A reset in Russia-U.S. relations has materialized...
A reset in Russia-U.S. relations has materialized and there should be no stopping now, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
A search and rescue team has found the bodies...
A search and rescue team has found the bodies of eight people from under an avalanche after a helicopter with a group of German tourists went missing on the Kamchatka Peninsula earlier on Saturday, a Far East Emergencies Ministry spokesman said.
Athletes of the Chilean Olympic team in...
Athletes of the Chilean Olympic team in Canada decided to skip Sunday"s closing ceremony and immediately return to their country, which was devastated by a strong quake, the USA Today reported.
At least 23 people were killed and 57 injured...
At least 23 people were killed and 57 injured, including a provincial governor, in two separate suicide bombings in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported.
A woman who hid Anne Frank and her family...
A woman who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during WWII and found her diaries, has died at the age of 100, Israeli Haaretz newspaper said on Tuesday.
Bolivians will have an opportunity to taste...
Bolivians will have an opportunity to taste a unique fizzy drink produced from coca leaves starting from the new year, Latin American media reported on Thursday.
China says the United States are violating...
China says the United States are violating the international norms and spoils bilateral relations after President Barack Obama met with Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama in Washington, Xinhua news agency said.
Czech Gripen fighters will secure the air...
Czech Gripen fighters will secure the air space and escort the planes of U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a U.S.-Russia summit in April, the CTK national news agency said on Tuesday.
Dynamo Moscow are attempting to sign unsettled...
Dynamo Moscow are attempting to sign unsettled Bayern Munich striker Luca Toni, a Russian paper said on Monday.
Fans of Russian skater Evgeni Plushenko...
Fans of Russian skater Evgeni Plushenko, who hoped to become the first repeat men"s Olympic gold medalist since 1952, but won silver in the free skate at the Vancouver Games, will award the skater and his coach "people"s" gold medals, the initiator of the award has said.
Frequent "treats" by visitors of a Russian...
Frequent "treats" by visitors of a Russian zoo made one of its resident, Zhora the chimpanzee, an alcoholic and nicotine addict, a Russian daily has said.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said on Monday the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project could start in six months, dropping his doubts about the project.
Including Russian Prime Minister Vladimir...
Including Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin among the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) list of the world"s freedom "predators" is totally wrong, the premier"s spokesman said on Tuesday.
India may join Russia"s nuclear center of...
India may join Russia"s nuclear center of a low-enriched uranium (LEU) reserves project in Angarsk, the chairman of India"s Atomic Energy Research Commission said.
In the upcoming months, Russian President...
In the upcoming months, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is likely to hold talks with Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, and visit France, Canada and Slovakia.
Iran will unveil five space projects at...
Iran will unveil five space projects at ceremonies starting on Monday to celebrate the victory of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Fars news agency said.
KALININGRAD, September 10 (RIA Novosti)...
KALININGRAD, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - A new cathedral in Kaliningrad in Russia's westernmost region will contribute to friendship in the Baltic Sea area, President Vladimir Putin said Sunday.
KIEV, April 10 (RIA Novosti) - A senior...
KIEV, April 10 (RIA Novosti) - A senior Russian lawmaker blasted on Friday the decision by a regional parliament in western Ukraine to remove a Soviet-era statue to the Red Army soldier.
KIEV, July 14 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine welcomed...
KIEV, July 14 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine welcomed the launch of the Nabucco gas pipeline project intended to pump gas to Europe bypassing Russia and said it was ready to join, a deputy head of the Ukrainian president"s secretariat said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, April 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, April 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will deliver the modernized Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to the Indian Navy in 2012, a senior shipbuilding industry official has said.
MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - Lieutenant...
MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - Lieutenant General Valery Yevnevich has started work as the new head of the Defense Ministry"s Combat Training Directorate, the General Staff said on Monday.
MOSCOW, August 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Finnish...
MOSCOW, August 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Finnish owner of a cargo ship, crewed by Russians, that went missing off Portugal"s Atlantic coast on August 1 has asked Russia to assist in tracing the vessel, which may have been hijacked. "The Solchart company and me personally are counting, above all, on Russia"s assistance in the search for the missing vessel and its crew," Viktor Matveyev, the company"s executive director, said. The dry cargo vessel, the Arctic Sea, was due to arrive at the Algerian port of Bejaia on August 4. According to crew members, on July 24, masked men claiming to be police stopped the Arctic Sea in the Baltic Sea and tied up the crew, after which they searched the vessel. The crew is reported to have said the men then left the ship after the 12-hour ordeal and the Arctic Sea resumed its voyage. The Times newspaper cited a Maritime and Coastguard Agency representative as saying "We thought we had spoken to a member of the crew but of course it could have been someone with a gun pointed at their head or a hijacker." Mark Clark said that the ship had last been seen by a Portuguese patrol vessel. "This is the last information we have on the ship. Where she is now no one knows," Clark said, adding "no one can recall a hijacked ship being taken through the [English] channel." According to media reports, the Arctic Sea, which flies the Maltese flag, had a crew of 13 sailors on board as of late March.
MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian...
MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Defense Ministry and the Sukhoi aircraft maker signed on Tuesday a contract on the delivery of 64 Su fighters to the Russian Air Force.
MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Finnish...
MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Finnish owner of the Arctic Sea ship, which was missing in the Atlantic for more than two weeks until it was found on Monday, wants reliable information on the crew, the Solchart company said on Friday.
MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - One of...
MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - One of Russia's largest cosmetics retailers Arbat Prestige could face bankruptcy being hit by a new 1.59-billion-ruble ($65-million) debt claim, a Russian business daily said on Monday.
MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...
MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Finans business magazine has compiled a ranking of the country"s richest heirs, putting the son of a co-owner of oil giant LUKoil in pole position.
MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...
MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s largest mobile communications operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has offered $1.27 billion for a 51% stake in Moscow"s biggest multiservice communications operator, Comstar-UTS, a report said on Monday.
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The results...
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The results of the Russian North Pole mission last week should be central to the country's case for ownership of a vast section of the Arctic, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow...
MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow police officially rejected media reports on Tuesday that two violinists from a famed Russian orchestra had been attacked by racists, a police spokesman said. A member of the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra, Denis Shulgin, was hospitalized with a fractured skull and brain concussion after an attack in the Russian capital on Monday. Attackers stole his valuable violin. In a separate incident on Sunday, his colleague Georgy Tsai, an ethnic Korean, was stabbed in the stomach and suffered numerous hand injuries. His bag was stolen during the attack, which occurred near his home. Both men are reported to be in a stable condition. Police are investigating whether the attacks were linked. After the first incident, media said the violinist had been a victim of a race-hate attack. However, the police spokesman Viktor Biryukov dismissed the reports saying: "We officially deny this information as there no grounds for such allegations." Criminal cases into assault and robbery have been opened, he said. Racially motivated crimes have become common in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Attacks by gangs of youths on foreigners and people with non-Slavic features are a routine occurrence in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as the city of Voronezh, which hosts many foreign university students. Last week, the Moscow City Court sentenced seven young men, convicted of 20 race-hate murders and 12 other attacks, to between six and 20 years in prison. The gang carried out a series of attacks between August 2006 and October 2007 targeted at foreigners and non-Slavic migrants. The suspects filmed some of the attacks and posted them on the Internet.
MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and India must finally agree on the revised terms of a contract to deliver a modernized aircraft carrier to the Indian navy and ensure the implementation of the project, the Russian president said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - Bills...
MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - Bills on tougher punishments for pedophiles and on responsibility for making, distributing and acquiring child pornography have been submitted to the lower house of Russia"s parliament. A group of lawmakers led by First Deputy State Duma Speaker Oleg Morozov and family affairs committee head Yelena Mizulina, as well as other members of parliament, submitted the draft laws. Mizulina told RIA Novosti that the bill, drawn up to counter pornography production and distribution, introduces the notion "child pornography", and differentiates responsibility. "Today the law does not define what child pornography is. We will introduce this definition," she said. The bill also envisions criminal responsibility for storing and acquiring child pornography. "If people don"t buy it, people won"t produce it," Mizulina said. The bills were developed with the participation of Russia"s Public Chamber.
Moscow expressed deep concern Wednesday...
Moscow expressed deep concern Wednesday over Israel"s plan to build a large number of new housing complexes on the West Bank.
MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russian investigators said on Thursday they had closed their probe into the 1918 murder of the last tsar and his family, and the identification of their remains discovered in the Urals in 1991 and 2007.
MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Oleg...
MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Oleg Deripaska, the owner of United Company RusAl, the world's largest aluminum producer, was elected as the company's chief executive, RusAl said on Sunday.
MOSCOW, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - North Korea...
MOSCOW, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - North Korea has conducted two test launches of short-range missiles, a South Korean news agency reported on Thursday.
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Police have...
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Police have found a large cache of weapons hidden in a forest in Russia"s troubled North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a local police source said on Sunday.
MOSCOW, May 7 (RIA Novosti) - Chelsea FC...
MOSCOW, May 7 (RIA Novosti) - Chelsea FC coach Guus Hiddink has reacted furiously to a series of controversial refereeing decisions that saw Barcelona escape several penalty appeals, to edge past Chelsea in the Champions League semifinals. Michael Essien"s 9th minute goal looked enough to put Chelsea, who dominated most of Wednesday"s game, through to their second Champions League final in a row, but in the dying moments of extra time Andres Iniesta scored a stunner to level the score at 1-1 and put the home side out on the away-goals rule. In a post-match interview, Hiddink said: "Players make many mistakes, coaches make mistakes, referees make mistakes. But if you have seen three or four situations waved away, then his was the worst I have seen." He said that Norwegian referee Tom Henning Ovrebo"s failure to call any of the penalty decisions in Chelsea"s favor left him with a feeling "of being robbed and one of injustice." Barcelona, who were reduced to 10 men, barely challenged Chelsea throughout the game, and Hiddink admitted that the west London side had been punished for their failure to take advantage of the possession. "We had two or three open chances and we should have taken them and then we wouldn"t have this fuss about not just one penalty, but three or four," he said. Hiddink has transformed Chelsea since taking over at the club on February 11. As well as reaching the semifinal of Europe"s most prestigious club competition, the side, owned by Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, have already booked a place in the FA Cup final on May 30. Barcelona will now face Manchester United, who are attempting to become the first football club to retain the Champions League title, in Rome on May 27.
MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti)...
MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti) - Three events have come together independently. But they produced an intrigue that has hooked both politicians and media in the Middle East. Here is what happened.
MOSCOW, November 13 (RIA Novosti) - The...
MOSCOW, November 13 (RIA Novosti) - The decision of The Court of Arbitration for Sport to uphold bans on biathletes Albina Akhatova and Yekaterina Iourieva is a blow to Russia"s Winter Olympics hopes, a top sports official said on Friday.
MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's...
MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's top court ruled on Wednesday "to exonerate" the country's last tsar and his family, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, as victims of political repression.
MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...
MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian police officer who went on a shooting spree in a Moscow supermarket in April had robbed the store several times before the incident, a popular tabloid quoted the supermarket administrator as saying.
MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom...
MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom subsidiary Gaztorgpromstroy is to open a series of supermarkets and a fast food chain, Russian business daily Kommersant said on Monday.
MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...
MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Strategic Missile Forces will conduct a series of exercises on October 9-17 in the Ivanovo Region, the forces" press service said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - The United...
MOSCOW, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - The United States has notified Japan that it will remove North Korea from its list of terrorism sponsoring states later this month, the Kyodo news agency reported Thursday.
MOSCOW. (Professor Mikhail Barshchevsky...
MOSCOW. (Professor Mikhail Barshchevsky for RIA Novosti) - Under Iraqi law, the term for enforcing the death penalty for former President Saddam Hussein expires on December 5. A number of human rights and public organizations have sent requests to the Iraqi government to remit the death penalty.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Nikolai Troitsky) – President Dmitry Medvedev’s second state of the nation address sounded more like a report by a business leader at a large economic conference. Avoiding unnecessary pathos, he enumerated the basic problems in all spheres of life in Russia and possible ways to resolve them.
MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - North...
MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il met on Friday with a special envoy of the Chinese president, the countries" state media reported.
MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Iran"s...
MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Iran"s Revolutionary Guards will begin missile defense drills on Sunday as tension grows over the Islamic Republic"s defiance of international demands on its nuclear program, the Mehr news agency said.
MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - The...
MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - The Arctic Sea cargo ship that was missing for more than two weeks before being freed from hijackers is in the eastern Atlantic and could enter Mediterranean in two or three days.
Moscow"s leading cultural figures signed...
Moscow"s leading cultural figures signed an unprecedented open letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urging him to take under his personal control the investigation into a car accident last week killing two people.
Muscovites will be able to learn about Soviet...
Muscovites will be able to learn about Soviet leader Joseph Stalin"s role in the World War II victory from street stands, a source in the Russian capital"s advertising and design committee said Wednesday.
NEW DELHI, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - India...
NEW DELHI, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - India and Russia could reach a final agreement by the end of July on the cost of overhauling the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to be delivered to the Indian navy, the Hindu newspaper said on Friday.
Norway won the women"s cross country skiing...
Norway won the women"s cross country skiing relay at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Thursday, ahead of Germany and Finland.
On December 23, Russia marked the Strategic...
On December 23, Russia marked the Strategic Aviation Day, which was established to commemorate the creation of the world"s first squadron of heavy bombers in 1914. Since then strategic aviation has become an element of the strategic nuclear triad ensuring Russia"s security.
Poland"s Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday...
Poland"s Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday will provide full information about the first stage of the investigation into a recent crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, government press secretary Pawel Gras said on Sunday.
Police and other security forces have prevented...
Police and other security forces have prevented 81 terrorist attacks in Russia"s volatile North Caucasus this year, the head of the Federal Security Service said on Tuesday.
Polish skier Justyna Kowalczyk snatched...
Polish skier Justyna Kowalczyk snatched the first gold medal for her country at the 2010 Olympics in Canada after finishing in just 0.3 seconds ahead of her closest contender in ladies" 30 km Mass Start.
President Dmitry Medvedev approved on Wednesday...
President Dmitry Medvedev approved on Wednesday the federal budget for 2010 and basic budget parameters through 2012.
Russia and Abkhazia have not discussed the...
Russia and Abkhazia have not discussed the redeployment of Russia"s Black Sea fleet warships from Ukraine"s Crimea to the former Georgian republic, the Abkhazian leader said on Thursday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that circumstances for the resumption of talks with North Korea on its controversial nuclear program have improved.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated Abkhazia"s president, Sergei Bagapsh, on his reelection, the Kremlin said on Monday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the interior minister to look into a recent car crash in Moscow involving the LUKoil vice president that killed two doctors, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev highlighted...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev highlighted Moscow"s determination to step up trade with India during a meeting with visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit France on March 1-3 in order to discuss a range of international and bilateral issues with French top officials, the Russian president"s aid has said.
Russian prosecutors demanded a life sentence...
Russian prosecutors demanded a life sentence for a former senior police officer who killed two and injured seven in a drunk shooting spree in Moscow last year, a RIA correspondent reported from the courtroom on Tuesday.
Russia"s largest diamond miner Alrosa said...
Russia"s largest diamond miner Alrosa said on Wednesday its diamond output was expected to hit an estimated $2.24 billion in terms of value in 2009.
Russia"s preparations for the 2014 Winter...
Russia"s preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are on schedule, with some 60 billion rubles due to be spent on them this year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Russia"s Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying...
Russia"s Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying a crew of three has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Mission Control said Wednesday.
Some 70 protesters were detained on Triumfalnaya...
Some 70 protesters were detained on Triumfalnaya Square in central Moscow for taking part in an opposition rally that has not been sanctioned by authorities on the so-called "Day of Wrath", a local police spokesman said on Saturday.
Swiss alpine skier Carlo Janka took the...
Swiss alpine skier Carlo Janka took the Olympic gold in men"s giant slalom.
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.
The first results from a round of Russian...
The first results from a round of Russian regional elections seen as a popularity test for United Russia showed the pro-Kremlin party gaining less support that it was expecting.
The head of the Yekaterinburg branch of...
The head of the Yekaterinburg branch of the ruling United Russia party has resigned following the party"s unsatisfactory performance in recent local elections, a party spokesman said on Monday.
The lower house of the Russian parliament...
The lower house of the Russian parliament passed a bill on Wednesday to ban holding suspects of economic crimes in pretrial detention.
The Russian government on Thursday told...
The Russian government on Thursday told millions of future pensioners to rely on themselves rather than the state support after retirement.
The Times newspaper claims to have obtained...
The Times newspaper claims to have obtained "confidential intelligence documents" showing that Iran is testing a final component to build a nuclear bomb.
The Ukrainian opposition will not be able...
The Ukrainian opposition will not be able to hamper the ratification of a deal between Moscow and Kiev on extending Russia"s use of a naval base in Ukraine"s Crimea, Russian daily Kommersant said.
The United States is stalling inter-Palestinian...
The United States is stalling inter-Palestinian reconciliation talks by pressuring the Fatah leader and Egyptian authorities, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told a Russian daily.
Today, on February 16, the Kyoto Protocol...
Today, on February 16, the Kyoto Protocol is marking an anniversary: five years since it officially came into force. This anti-global warming charter has seen many anniversaries. It was adopted in December 1997 in Kyoto (hence its name) and opened for signing in March 1998. The first steps towards its implementation were made on January 1, 2008.
TOKYO, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Japan's...
TOKYO, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Japan's Cabinet secretary has urged government bodies to step up controls over classified information after a Japanese official allegedly leaked secret documents to Russia.