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MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - The European...

MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - The European Union welcomes Russia"s commitment to the ongoing international fight against terrorism financing and money laundering, the deputy head of the European Commission"s delegation in Moscow said Thursday. Paul Vandoren said the European Commission and the Council of Europe will contribute 3.5 million euros ($4.5 million) through 2010 on a program to assist Russia in its continuing enforcement efforts. Alexander Seger, the head of the Council of Europe"s technical cooperation division in the Department of Crime Problems, said that Russia and the EU already have considerable experience working together to stop financial crimes. Russia is an active participant in the international fight against money laundering and a full-fledged member of the Egmont Group, he said, referring to the coordinating body for international financial intelligence units (FIUs) formed in 1995 to promote and enhance international cooperation in anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing. He said that international money laundering and terrorism financing registered a 15-fold increase in 2006 and early 2007 over previous years, although he did not cite any specific figures for Russia.


MOSCOW, January 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian...

MOSCOW, January 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government is to allocate 400 million rubles ($16 million) for research into the development of an HIV vaccine, the consumer rights watchdog said on Wednesday. The funding is part of international efforts agreed upon at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in July 2006. Rospotrebnadzor said the government had signed the order in late 2007 and would allot a total of a billion rubles ($41 million) for research, HIV monitoring and other operations in the field in 2008-2010.


MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Tajik...

MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Tajik national was killed in an apparently racially motivated attack in the north of the Russian capital, a spokesman for the Moscow police said on Sunday.

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Russia"s Olympic Committee on Tuesday accepted...

Tyagachev turned in his resignation on March 3, two days after President Dmitry Medvedev said senior sports officials should quit over the country"s poor performance at the Winter Olympics.

The election of Russia"s new Olympic chief has been scheduled for May 20, Shamil Tarpishchev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation and a member of the Russian Olympic Committee executive body, told RIA Novosti.

First Vice President of the Russian Olympic Committee Igor Kazikov has been named the acting president until the committee convenes.

Russia took a disappointing 11th place in the overall medals table, winning three golds, five silvers and seven bronzes. Its hotly-tipped ice-hockey team was also knocked out of the tournament at the quarter-final stage by eventual winners Canada, going down 7-3.

Tyagachev, the former sports and tourism minister, has held his Olympic Committee post since 2001.

Medvedev said on March 1, "Those who bear responsibility

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