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About 250 people were evacuated early on...
About 250 people were evacuated early on Tuesday from a residential building in downtown Moscow due to a fire in an adjacent night club, a spokesman for the local emergencies service said.
A Moscow court sentenced a doctor and her...
A Moscow court sentenced a doctor and her assistant to a six-month conditional prison term after they were found guilty of forgetting a surgical instrument in their patient"s abdomen, a local prosecutor"s office said on its website on Thursday.
Anzhi Makhachkala became the first of the...
Anzhi Makhachkala became the first of the three promoted sides to win in the Russian Premier League this season with a 2-0 home win over fellow newcomers Alania Vladikavkaz on Saturday.
A passenger jet with some 150 people on...
A passenger jet with some 150 people on board was unable to land at its destination in Leipzig because of the absence of air traffic controllers in the tower, the German Frankfurter Rundshau reported on Tuesday.
A priest has been stabbed to death in Chuvashia...
A priest has been stabbed to death in Chuvashia, less than two weeks after a clergyman was shot dead in the central Russian republic, local investigators said on Wednesday.
ASTRAKHAN, August 17 (RIA Novosti) - The...
ASTRAKHAN, August 17 (RIA Novosti) - The missing Arctic Sea vessel has been found and its crew taken to a Russian warship, the Russian defense minister said on Monday.
At least 11 people have been injured and...
At least 11 people have been injured and several are feared to be dead after an explosion rocked an under-construction power plant in the U.S. state of Connecticut on Sunday.
By Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is Senior Research...
By Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy at the Katherine and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
Canadian speed skaters won gold in men"s...
Canadian speed skaters won gold in men"s team pursuit at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
CSKA Moscow and Zenit"s Russian Premier...
CSKA Moscow and Zenit"s Russian Premier League match, which was due to take place on Saturday, has been moved to a later date after twin suicide bombings hit the Russian capital.
Despite taking the first set in confident...
Despite taking the first set in confident style, Russia"s Nikolai Davydenko couldn"t stop world No. 1 Roger Federer in the 2010 Australian Open tennis tournament quarterfinals.
Export duty on Russian natural gas for Ukraine...
Export duty on Russian natural gas for Ukraine has been reset to zero from April 1, a decree signed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
FC Moskva has become the first football...
FC Moskva has become the first football club ever to withdraw from the Russian Premier League.
Four anti-tank mines were discovered on...
Four anti-tank mines were discovered on Thursday next to a railway line in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, an emergency services spokeswoman told RIA Novosti.
Governments should work together for secure...
Governments should work together for secure energy supplies, the head of the anti-terrorism center for post-Soviet states said on Wednesday.
Hundreds of thousands of people came to...
Hundreds of thousands of people came to bid farewell to Serbia"s Patriarch Pavle as the country"s Orthodox Church leader was buried in a Belgrade suburb on Thursday.
In an unusual debate on Wednesday, the upper...
In an unusual debate on Wednesday, the upper house of the Russian parliament declared that Russia"s performance at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver was "unsatisfactory."
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Major Russian youth organizations will hold...
Major Russian youth organizations will hold a mass rally to announce their federal projects in downtown Moscow on March 31, the Young Russia movement leader said on Tuesday.
MINSK, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - Belarus...
MINSK, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - Belarus has completed the procedures necessary to sign documents on joining a post-Soviet regional security bloc"s rapid reaction force, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday.
MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) - Solchart...
MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) - Solchart Arkhangelsk Ltd, the operator of the missing Arctic Sea cargo vessel, said on Friday it has no reliable information on the whereabouts of its ship.
MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) - The situation...
MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) - The situation around the missing Arctic Sea cargo ship that has reportedly been traced to a location outside Cape Verde is "dramatic," Russia"s NATO envoy said on Friday.
MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - The planned...
MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - The planned deployment of a new Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan is a defensive measure that will not pose a threat to any countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will spend 470 billion rubles ($15 billion) on arms, equipment and maintenance of its Armed Forces in 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Friday.
MOSCOW, December 1 (RIA Novosti) Russia...
MOSCOW, December 1 (RIA Novosti) Russia claims role of ideologist of new world order/Moscow denies rumors of commissioning Bushehr nuclear plant in March 2010/Putin pushes to make Russia"s space and rocket industry competitive/Russian businesses hope for the best, prepare for the worst
MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...
MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s anti-trust regulator will make a decision February 17 on a bid by the country"s second-largest bank, VTB, to buy a 30% stake in Polyus Gold, Russia"s leading gold producer, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. The Federal Antimonopoly Service warned, however, that it would have to reject the deal altogether unless the two parties provided information on final beneficiaries. Under anti-trust laws, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is required to consider approvals within a month, but can postpone decisions for another two months if additional information is required. The FAS has been considering the VTB deal for three months already. "The application expires next Tuesday, on February 17. Unless we obtain the necessary information by that time, we will be forced to refuse them," Irina Kashunina said. Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of the Onexim Group investment vehicle, and his former business partner Vladimir Potanin, who heads the Interros holding company, hold 30% each in Polyus Gold. Neither Onexim nor Interros has provided comment.
MOSCOW/ISTANBUL, April 27 RIA Novosti) -...
MOSCOW/ISTANBUL, April 27 RIA Novosti) - Turkey has expressed interest in buying air defense systems and combat helicopters from Russia, a Russian defense industry official said on Monday.
MOSCOW, July 22 (RIA Novosti) - The construction...
MOSCOW, July 22 (RIA Novosti) - The construction of sports facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi will cost Russia 195.3 billion rubles ($6.25 billion), Vice-Premier Dmitry Kozak said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, June 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia lost...
MOSCOW, June 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia lost 413 million rubles ($16 million) in the first five months of 2007 as a result of money laundering, an Interior Ministry official said Tuesday. Yevgeny Shkolov, head of the ministry"s economic security department, said his unit alone tracked down some 2,680 money-laundering incidents between January and May of this year - a 14% increase year-on-year. The total number of such crimes detected across the nation was 4,390, he said. "Some 4,390 crimes related to money laundering were tracked in the Russian Federation in the first five months of this year, including 1,257 on a large scale," Shkolov said.
MOSCOW, March 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, March 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russian businessman Georgy Krasnyansky is suing his former business partner at Eurocement Holding AG for a total of $600 million, with the latest $35-million claim registered with a Moscow Arbitration Court on Monday.
MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - At least...
MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - At least 67 militants have been killed and 233 detained in special operations in the North Caucasus since the beginning of 2009, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, March 9 (RIA Novosti) - A new Russia-U.S...
MOSCOW, March 9 (RIA Novosti) - A new Russia-U.S. treaty on strategic arms reductions will link offensive and defensive armaments, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - A court in...
MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - A court in Portugal has returned a six-year-old girl, adopted by a Portuguese couple, to her Russian mother, Russia"s TV Channel Five said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - The lower...
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - The lower house of Russia"s parliament has adopted in its third reading a bill to give the upper house the right to directly appoint the head of the Constitutional Court, who will be nominated by the president.
MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - A military...
MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - A military parade involving over 9,000 personnel, 103 sophisticated tracked and wheeled military vehicles, as well as 69 aircraft and helicopters was launched on Moscow's Red Square at 10:00 a.m. Moscow time (06:00 GMT) on Saturday, when Russia celebrates Victory Day.
MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - An ex-Russian...
MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - An ex-Russian police office has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for cutting off the head of a 20-year-old man in the Urals over a dispute over just 60 rubles (slightly more than $2).
MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a directive on the opening of a Russian trade mission in Nicaragua.
MOSCOW, November 2 (RIA Novosti) - A total...
MOSCOW, November 2 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 144 militants have been killed during special operations in Russia"s North Caucasus since April, the interior minister of the republic of Chechnya said Monday.
MOSCOW, November 6 (RIA Novosti) - A South...
MOSCOW, November 6 (RIA Novosti) - A South Korean woman has passed a written driving test on her 950th attempt, national media reported on Friday.
MOSCOW, November 9 (RIA Novosti) - Three...
MOSCOW, November 9 (RIA Novosti) - Three Ukrainian sailors accused of a murder in the Congo will be tried in the African state"s capital of Kinshasa, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - A revised...
MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - A revised military doctrine, which will soon be submitted to the Russian president, must keep provisions on the use of nuclear weapons intact, a Russian military expert said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow...
MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court on Friday remanded in custody two more suspects in the Arctic Sea ship seizure case, with custody of all the eight suspects now extended.
MOSCOW, October 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...
MOSCOW, October 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Thursday it intended to hold an initial public offering on Russian bourses in late 2009 and early 2010 to the sum of $1-1.5 billion. The UAC was established earlier this year to help overcome the crisis in Russia"s aircraft industry, and incorporates many of the country"s best-known aircraft builders, including Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, Yakovlev and other enterprises in the industry. A UAC official also said the corporation would float newly issued shares representing 10-15% of its charter capital by closed subscription in 2008, adding that Russia"s government-controlled foreign economic bank Vnesheconombank could participate in the offer. The UAC, which is 90% state owned, incorporates aircraft building companies and state assets engaged in the manufacture, design and sale of military, non-military, transport and unmanned aircraft in a bid to streamline the Russian aviation industry. The UAC official also said the company would borrow about 120 billion rubles (about $4.8 billion) by 2012.
MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Construction...
MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Construction of the Russian pavilion for the Expo 2010 to be held in Shanghai is going according to schedule, a first deputy mayor of Moscow said.
MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) -- India...
MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) -- India wants to buy another 50 Sukhoi-30MKI multi-role fighters, an Indian daily reported on Friday.
MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has decided to extend a moratorium on human cloning that expired two years ago by five years, the health and social development minister said on Friday.
MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...
MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Gazprom and Poland"s PGNiG have agreed to extend their natural gas contract until 2037 with an increase in supplies, the companies said on Friday.
MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian prosecutors confirmed on Thursday that the Arctic Sea cargo vessel, at the centre of a mysterious hijacking case in July, is currently anchored off Gibraltar.
MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti commentator Anatoly...
MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti commentator Anatoly Korolyov) For the first 500 years of its existence, Russia did not have a coat of arms, or a national flag or anthem. In the middle ages, instead of a flag, the prince's troops carried a miraculous icon, and before embarking on a campaign or going into battle, the men would usually pray in front of the holy image.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator...
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Viktor Litovkin) - On January 22, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov arrived in Bangalore on his seventh visit to India.
MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - A Guinean...
MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - A Guinean court has overturned a deal by United Co. Rusal, the world"s biggest aluminum producer, to buy the Friguia bauxite and alumina complex, drawing an angry reaction from Moscow.
MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) - The...
MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) - The Arctic Sea cargo ship that was missing for more than two weeks before being freed from hijackers is preparing to enter the Mediterranean Sea, a Russian military source said on Thursday.
NEW DELHI, January 24 (RIA Novosti) - The...
NEW DELHI, January 24 (RIA Novosti) - The Sukhoi Design Bureau will assist India in testing an air-to-ground version of the Brahmos cruise missile, a RIA Novosti correspondent said Wednesday.
Police in central Russia"s republic of Chuvashia...
Police in central Russia"s republic of Chuvashia detained on Saturday a suspect in the murder of a priest, an investigation spokesman said.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and up to...
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and up to 131 others traveling with him to commemorate the mass killing of Polish officers during World War Two died on Saturday when his plane crashed on landing in western Russia.
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Russia is a guarantor of international security...
Russia is a guarantor of international security and a reliable partner in conflict resolution on a global scale, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said on Monday.
Russian and French delegations will meet...
Russian and French delegations will meet later this month to discuss the possible sale of a French warship, a Russian Defense Ministry source said on Monday.
Russian and U.S. negotiators will wrap up...
Russian and U.S. negotiators will wrap up a new strategic arms reduction pact in the very near future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
Russian champions Rubin Kazan were paired...
Russian champions Rubin Kazan were paired with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv after Friday"s draw in Nyon, Switzerland.
Russian dealers have sold some 7,000 cars...
Russian dealers have sold some 7,000 cars as part of a new car scrapping program since it was launched a week ago, an Industry and Trade Ministry official said Tuesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev assured...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev assured the heads of three state TV channels on Thursday that no force would be used to carry out modernization in Russia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised energy cooperation with Turkey on Wednesday and said he looked to joint efforts in addressing regional disputes.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet on Thursday with Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe human rights commissioner, who arrived in Russia on a working visit Wednesday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved on Tuesday the dismissal of Deputy Regional Development Minister Sergei Kruglik for failing to cut construction costs, a government statement said.
Russian state-run businesses plan to inject...
Russian state-run businesses plan to inject over 2 trillion rubles (about $68 bln) into investment programs in 2010, the same amount as in 2009, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
Russia’s new strategic bomber will...
Russia’s new strategic bomber will use stealth technologies and is expected to enter service in 2025-2030, the commander of Russia’s strategic aviation said on Tuesday.
Russia"s Air Force has denied claims by...
Russia"s Air Force has denied claims by Britain that Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers violated UK airspace on March 10.
Russia"s drug control chief, Viktor Ivanov...
Russia"s drug control chief, Viktor Ivanov, will announce new proposals on Wednesday for eliminating the narcotics threat from Afghanistan at the Russia-NATO Council meeting in Brussels, a law enforcement source said.
Russia"s foreign minister said on Tuesday...
Russia"s foreign minister said on Tuesday there was no connection between the ongoing international dispute over Iran"s nuclear program and a delay in launching the country"s first nuclear power plant.
Russia"s Ivan Skobrev took the Olympic silver...
Russia"s Ivan Skobrev took the Olympic silver in men"s 10,000 meters speed skating event.
Russia"s Navy will equip its Baltic Fleet...
Russia"s Navy will equip its Baltic Fleet with high-precision weapons over Polish plans to station U.S. Patriot missiles closer to the Russian border, a high-ranking source in the Navy said on Thursday.
Russia will fulfill its obligations under...
Russia will fulfill its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, the presidential advisor on climate issues said on Friday.
The 2010 Winter Olympics were declared closed...
The 2010 Winter Olympics were declared closed during a ceremony at BC Place Stadium in downtown Vancouver, and the baton has been passed to Sochi, where the next Winter Games will take place in 2014.
The election of Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine"s...
The election of Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine"s new president may further delay Ukraine"s bid to enter NATO, the president of Eurasia Group Ian Bremmer told RIA Novosti on Friday.
The fake news report aired on Georgian TV...
The fake news report aired on Georgian TV was a provocation aimed at jeopardizing regional stability and security, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
The flow of magma of the Icelandic Eyjafjallajokull...
The flow of magma of the Icelandic Eyjafjallajokull volcano has decreased 10 times in comparison with the first hours of its eruption, scientists from the Geophysics Institute of the University of Iceland said on Wednesday.
The next test launch of Russia"s troubled...
The next test launch of Russia"s troubled Bulava intercontinental missile could take place in January, an unidentified Defense Ministry official said on Friday.
The upper house of Russia"s parliament rejected...
The upper house of Russia"s parliament rejected on Wednesday a bill to double the motor vehicle tax that had sparked protests when it was approved by the lower house.
The vast majority of Russians believe "order"...
The vast majority of Russians believe "order" is more important than "democracy," an opinion poll published on Monday by the Russia Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) showed.
Traffic was paralyzed in Moscow on Monday...
Traffic was paralyzed in Moscow on Monday as the capital saw its heaviest snowfall this winter.
Violence and corruption in Russia"s legal...
Violence and corruption in Russia"s legal system could ultimately spell the end for the Russian state as it is today, the jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said in a newspaper article published on Wednesday.
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