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Russian police have seized 1.4 tons of sturgeon...

Russian police have seized 1.4 tons of sturgeon and 9 kg of caviar in two separate incidents, police said on Friday.


MOSCOW. (Igor Tomberg for RIA Novosti) -...

MOSCOW. (Igor Tomberg for RIA Novosti) - On the sidelines of the Russian President's visit to India, state-run Russian company Rosneft, and state-owned Indian Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) signed a memorandum on expanding cooperation.


UN secretary general has set off for a tour...

UN secretary general has set off for a tour of the Middle East after his visit to Moscow, where he took part in a meeting of the Mideast Quartet mediators, his spokesman said.

A drug user in the east Siberian city of...

Sergei Ananev met his 22-year-old victim-to-be through a cell phone text messaging service in mid-2008, the newslab.ru website reported, citing local prosecutors. Investigators say that in January 2009, after pretending to have fallen in love with her, he asked the girl to lend him 3,000 rubles ($100). The girl, who has not been named, subsequently came from the neighboring Mansky District to Ananev"s apartment. However, in place of flowers and warm words, the girl was met with a barrage of blows from a hammer, police say. Outlook Express Inbox repair tool

A German luger, who won a silver medal at...

"The photographers wanted us to bite into our medals at the presentation ceremony. And a corner of my front tooth broke off," David Moeller, 28, told the German newspaper Bild. Moeller said he did not feel any pain but went to see a dentist anyway as he wanted to look good in photographs.

A leader of Wahhabi militants in Russia"s...

On Wednesday evening, two men resisted local security service personnel. During the shootout, one of the militants was killed, and the second wounded, but managed to escape. One police officer was also wounded in the operation. "Investigators compared the fingerprints of the militant with existing fingerprint databases," a spokesman from the investigative committee said. "The dead militant was almost immediately identified as Anzor Astemirov, born in 1976, and the head of a gang," he said. Astemirov is suspected of organizing an attack on the local drug control administration in December 2004, and militant attacks in the republic"s capital of Nalchik in October 2005.

A Moscow court warned media on Thursday...

Under a court ruling on Wednesday, Andrei Stenin is facing a 500-ruble (about $17) fine for photographing an unsanctioned rally on December 12, 2009, a task the Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti had officially assigned him. "The judge did not believe the reporter"s testimony that he was carrying out his professional duties and decided that he was participating in the rally," Moscow City Court spokeswoman Anna Usachyova said. She defended the judge"s "informal" approach to the decision even though it had reverberated through the public.