MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyzstan is considering building a gambling zone near the large mountain lake of Issyk Kul, the central Asian country"s ambassador to Russia said on Wednesday.
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.
MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court on Thursday extended custody of two men charged with hijacking the Arctic Sea cargo ship in July, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom.