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A 26-year-old Belarusian man escaped from...
A 26-year-old Belarusian man escaped from Moscow"s Butyrka prison on Monday. Officials were at a loss as to how he managed to make his way to freedom.
A new task force from Russia"s Baltic Fleet...
A new task force from Russia"s Baltic Fleet will join international efforts to fight piracy off the Horn of Africa, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Tuesday.
An Uzbek citizen managed to protect his...
An Uzbek citizen managed to protect his good name and the right to wear a beard, considered by local officials an attribute of extremists, the Uznews website said.
A Russian frigate, the Neustrashimy (Fearless)...
A Russian frigate, the Neustrashimy (Fearless), seized on Saturday a boat with seven pirates on board during an operation to thwart an attack on a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, a Russian Navy spokesman said.
At least one of the two bombs which killed...
At least one of the two bombs which killed over 30 people in the central Moscow metro system on Monday morning was carried out by a female suicide bomber using plastic explosives, Russia"s top investigator said.
A U.S. drone attack has killed at least...
A U.S. drone attack has killed at least four militants in northwestern Pakistan, near the Afghan border, Pakistan"s Daily Times said 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.
Chief Palestinian presidential advisor Sahib...
Chief Palestinian presidential advisor Sahib Oreikat has called off his visit to Moscow for the Mideast Quartet"s meeting, the Palestinian media reported on Wednesday.
Christoph Waltz won Oscar in the Actor in...
Christoph Waltz won Oscar in the Actor in a Supporting role category for his role in Inglourious Basterds and Mo"Nique won the golden statuette for the Actress in Supporting Role in Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire.
Iran has again shocked the world by sanctioning...
Iran has again shocked the world by sanctioning the construction of ten more uranium enrichment plants, five of them immediately.
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.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced...
Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced on Friday new measures to simplify visa issuance to Russian nationals in an urge to give a boost to the country"s tourism industry.
MOSCOW. (Andrei Fedyashin, RIA Novosti political...
MOSCOW. (Andrei Fedyashin, RIA Novosti political commentator) - Russian sources in Geneva expect the new START Treaty to be ready by February 27. The two countries have been trying since last May to find a mutually acceptable arrangement to legally document a limit on the number of U.S. and Russian nuclear delivery vehicles and warheads.
MOSCOW, April 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, April 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is to submit to the UN new data on the boundaries of its continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean, an ambassador at large said Monday.
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 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russian nationalists and immigrant workers from the ex-Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan are to meet in Moscow for a game of football aimed at defusing ethnic tensions, the Kyrgyz ambassador said on Wednesday.
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, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - A draft...
MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - A draft law to toughen control over electronic media, including in the Internet, as part of efforts against extremism has been withdrawn from Russia's lower house of parliament for further discussion.
Moscow is calling on Israel to scrap plans...
Moscow is calling on Israel to scrap plans for further settlement construction in East Jerusalem, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Moscow is counting on Iran to show "additional...
Moscow is counting on Iran to show "additional flexibility" regarding a proposed nuclear fuel exchange, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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, July 29 (RIA Novosti) - The deployment...
MOSCOW, July 29 (RIA Novosti) - The deployment of a Russian military base in southern Kyrgyzstan has been coordinated with Kyrgyz authorities, an aide to the Russian president said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Standard...
MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Standard & Poor's revised downwards the long-term credit rating for Russia's largest diamond producer Alrosa to BB- from BB over higher financial leverage and deteriorated liquidity, the international rating agency said on Wednesday.
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 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova climbed up 10 spots in the Women Tennis Association"s rankings to 15th place on Monday.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military correspondent...
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military correspondent Ilya Kramnik) - Current Iranian developments, including the recent murder of prominent nuclear physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi in Tehran or an ultimatum that the West must accept Iranian terms regarding the country"s nuclear program by late January, show that Tehran now equates foreign-policy with domestic-policy issues.
MOSCOW, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Iran"s...
MOSCOW, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Iran"s recent missile launches have demonstrated that the missiles pose no threat to the U.S., Russia"s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin has said.
MUNICH, July 15 (RIA Novosti) -Nabucco is...
MUNICH, July 15 (RIA Novosti) -Nabucco is not a serious rival to Russia"s Nord Stream and South Stream gas pipeline projects, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - India...
NEW DELHI, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - India will discuss the modernization of the Russian-made Su-30MKI aircraft in service with its air force during an upcoming military-technical cooperation meeting in Moscow, the country"s Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Olympic Games have long become a global...
Olympic Games have long become a global information venue, and the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada, are no exception.
One man was injured in a household gas explosion...
One man was injured in a household gas explosion early on Thursday in southern Moscow, a law enforcement source said.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski will decide...
Polish President Lech Kaczynski will decide next week on whether he will take part in Victory Day celebrations in Moscow in May, his spokesman said.
Posters of Joseph Stalin will be put up...
Posters of Joseph Stalin will be put up not only for this year"s Victory Day parade in Moscow, but for other celebrations as well, the city"s mayor, Yury Luzhkov, said on Tuesday.
President Viktor Yushchenko renewed on Wednesday...
President Viktor Yushchenko renewed on Wednesday his appeal for a "drastic review" of a 10-year natural gas contract with Russia, which ended the ex-Soviet states" latest pricing and debt row.
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Russia could still deploy Iskander missiles...
Russia could still deploy Iskander missiles in its exclave on the Baltic Sea if new threats emerge in Europe, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov warned on Friday.
Russia could unite the Urals and Siberian...
Russia could unite the Urals and Siberian time zones as part of a project to slash the time difference across the country"s vast territory, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
Russia is celebrating Epiphany on Tuesday...
Russia is celebrating Epiphany on Tuesday, with thousands of believers across the country taking dips in icy cold water - a ceremony believed to cleanse them of sin and heal their illnesses.
Russia may drop two time zones when it switches...
Russia may drop two time zones when it switches to daylight saving time on March 28.
Russian and Belarusian police have arrested...
Russian and Belarusian police have arrested all the members of the so-called "International" criminal group, a Russian Interior Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
Russian aviation officials are in Iran to...
Russian aviation officials are in Iran to investigate yesterday"s crash-landing of a Russian-made Tu-154M airliner, the Interstate Aviation Committee said on Monday.
Russian champions Rubin Kazan have turned...
Russian champions Rubin Kazan have turned down an offer from CSKA Moscow for their captain, Sergei Semak, the player said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he agrees with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Israelis and Palestinians should begin direct talks to resolve the ongoing conflict.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Ukraine on April 9-10 to discuss a range of bilateral issues with his Ukrainian counterpart Kostyantyn Hryshchenko, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko has said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the U.S. President Barack Obama said issued a joint statement honoring the 65th anniversary of the meeting of the U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe River in WWII.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Friday for a crackdown on people who provide any form of assistance to terrorists.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday on his victory in Ukraine"s presidential election.
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 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday he was not backing Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko"s presidential bid.
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 official unemployment rate grew...
Russia"s official unemployment rate grew 1.8% to 2.2 million people over the past week, the country"s Health and Social Development Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Russia"s Vitaly Petrov signed on Sunday...
Russia"s Vitaly Petrov signed on Sunday a year-long contract with an option for an extra two years with Renault. The deal has made him the first Russian F1 racer.
Russia"s wildlife specialists are combing...
Russia"s wildlife specialists are combing the Far Eastern tundra to trap an Amur tiger which has begun hunting reindeer and dogs, the country"s environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor has said.
Security has been tightened across Russia...
Security has been tightened across Russia after two powerful blasts tore through the Moscow metro system on Monday morning, killing at least 37 people.
Security measures were stepped up in the...
Security measures were stepped up in the Washington subway following Monday"s twin blasts in the Moscow metro, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said in a statement.
South American countries have resolutely...
South American countries have resolutely condemned Monday"s deadly bombings in the Russian capital"s subway, local media reported Tuesday.
South Korea is continuing the rescue operation...
South Korea is continuing the rescue operation on its naval ship that sunk in the Yellow Sea near the border with North Korea late on Friday, with 46 sailors still missing, the Yonhap news agency reported Saturday.
Strictly speaking, no binding resolutions...
Strictly speaking, no binding resolutions came out of the 40 meetings at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In the world of economics, discussion, the exchange of opinion and identifying the problem areas of the global economy are considered the most important objectives for such forums. At Davos, around 2,500 leading businesspeople and politicians held more than 200 meetings to discuss reviving the global economy after the financial crisis.
Syria and Russia signed a cultural cooperation...
Syria and Russia signed a cultural cooperation program for 2010-2012 in Damascus on Sunday.
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 Customs Union between Russia, Belarus...
The Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan could well adopt a single currency at some point in the future, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Friday.
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 father of a 4-year-old girl who was...
The father of a 4-year-old girl who was seeking to join the Russian Interior Ministry special forces died on Thursday in the Ural"s Sverdlovsk Region after being severely beaten during a sparring exam, medical staff said.
The growing number of convicts suffering...
The growing number of convicts suffering from tuberculosis poses a danger of epidemics in Russian prisons and demands compulsory medical treatment, the head of the medical department of the federal prison service said on Wednesday.
The inauguration of Ukrainian president...
The inauguration of Ukrainian president elect Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday will be attended by 11 heads of state and 15 foreign ministers, the country"s UNIAN news agency said on Wednesday.
The Kremlin"s invitation to Poland"s premier...
The Kremlin"s invitation to Poland"s premier to attend events to mark the massacre of thousands of Polish POWs by Soviet forces in WWII is an important step in the improvement of bilateral ties, the senate speaker said on Thursday.
The leaders of Ukraine, Belarus, the United...
The leaders of Ukraine, Belarus, the United States and Britain will not attend the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9, a Kremlin official said on Tuesday.
The Moscow subway line hit by two separate...
The Moscow subway line hit by two separate terrorist attacks on Monday morning will resume traffic within 3-3.5 hours, Moscow First Vice-Mayor Pyotr Biryukov said.
The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan...
The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will sign a deal on a Customs Union between the three ex-Soviet republics in Minsk on November 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
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 Russian government will allocate 53...
The Russian government will allocate 53 billion rubles ($1.76 billion) for the construction of new nuclear power plants, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
The Russian opera singer Irina Arkhipova...
The Russian opera singer Irina Arkhipova has died in hospital aged 85, her husband Vladislav Piyavko told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
The Russian stock market quickly recovered...
The Russian stock market quickly recovered from a brief nosedive after two terrorist attacks of the Moscow subway and demonstrated confident growth, the business media reported on Tuesday.
The swine flu has stabilized in Russia with...
The swine flu has stabilized in Russia with the number of people suffering from the A/H1N1 virus declining, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said.
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.
Thousands of patients have been successfully...
Thousands of patients have been successfully treated by Koran readings alone at a free clinic in Chechnya"s Grozny, a statement on the Chechen president"s website said on Wednesday
Three people were killed and five wounded...
Three people were killed and five wounded on Thursday when an industrial company employee in the U.S. state of Missouri opened fire at co-workers before shooting himself dead, the vesti.ru website said.
Ukraine"s outgoing president, Viktor Yushchenko...
Ukraine"s outgoing president, Viktor Yushchenko, said on Wednesday he will not leave politics despite finishing fifth in Sunday"s presidential elections.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned on Monday the deadly terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway that claimed dozens of lives, his official spokesman said.
U.S. President Barack Obama condemned Monday"s...
U.S. President Barack Obama condemned Monday"s deadly terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway, calling them "heinous," and expressed his condolences to the Russian people.
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered...
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered that economic sanctions against Syria be extended for another year, the White House said on its website on Tuesday.
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Yulia Tymoshenko whose government was dismissed...
Yulia Tymoshenko whose government was dismissed by Ukraine"s parliament on Wednesday has criticized President Viktor Yanukovych"s plans to create a gas transportation consortium.