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A draft agreement on U.S. poultry supplies...

A draft agreement on U.S. poultry supplies to Russia may be ready by the end of the week, Russia"s chief sanitary official said on Wednesday.

A man was killed and his friend injured...

A man was killed and his friend injured in the early hours of Thursday morning when they tried to come to the aid of a young woman in southern Moscow, police said.

An 80-year-old man on a flight from the...

An 80-year-old man on a flight from the Philippine capital of Manila to the island of Cebu attempted to break a porthole window during the flight with his cane and leave the aircraft, Suddeutsche Zeitung has reported.

An Armenian national has been shot dead...

An Armenian national has been shot dead in a cafe by an unknown assailant in north Moscow, police told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

Andrei Arshavin sealed on Saturday Arsenal"s...

Andrei Arshavin sealed on Saturday Arsenal"s 3-1 home victory over Burnley that took his club into second place in England"s Premier League.

An explosive device detonated on Tuesday...

An explosive device detonated on Tuesday on a railway track in St. Petersburg, slightly injuring a train driver, investigators said.

A North Caucasus terrorist group is possibly...

A North Caucasus terrorist group is possibly involved in the Moscow subway bomb blasts that killed 37 and injured at least 65 people, the Federal Security Service chief said on Monday.

A stolen Nazi sign, which translates as...

A stolen Nazi sign, which translates as "Work makes you free," has been returned to the museum of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near Poland"s Krakow.

A teenager in west Russia has been sentenced...

A teenager in west Russia has been sentenced to 8.5 years in a correctional facility for the brutal murder of his teacher, investigators say.

At least 12 people were killed and eight...

At least 12 people were killed and eight injured after an explosion destroyed a second building in Baghdad as Iraqis started voting on Sunday in parliamentary elections, the Arabic satellite news channel Al Arabiya reported.

Authorities of southwest Siberia"s Kemerovo...

Authorities of southwest Siberia"s Kemerovo Region delivered in Moscow a shirt made for the Russian president by the last surviving member of a Russian Old-Believer family in the wilds of the Siberian taiga, a spokesman for the local administration said on Thursday.

CSKA Moscow defeated newly-promoted Sibir...

CSKA Moscow defeated newly-promoted Sibir 4-1 in west Siberia"s Novosibirsk on Saturday to go joint top of the Russian Premier League with Spartak Nalchik.

Deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev...

Deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on Tuesday he will resign only if the interim government guarantees his and his family"s security and order in the country.

Despite the widely publicized reset in Russian-U.S...

Despite the widely publicized reset in Russian-U.S. relations, almost three fourths of Russians still see the U.S. as a potential aggressor, according to a survey by an independent pollster.

General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland"s last...

General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland"s last communist leader, will attend World War II Victory Day celebrations in Moscow in May, the Polish Radio Foreign Service reported on Tuesday.

Georgian Airways will on Friday perform...

Georgian Airways will on Friday perform a direct charter flight to Moscow for the first time since August 2008.

Georgian opposition leaders will travel...

Georgian opposition leaders will travel to Russia on Thursday to meet Russian officials, opposition representatives and representatives from the Georgian diaspora in Russia in a bid to create a "Georgian lobby in Russia."

GROZNY, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Chechen...

GROZNY, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov plans to sue the director of a human rights group that accused him of being behind the murder of activist Natalya Estemirova, the leader"s spokesman said on Friday.

Ingush president Yunus-Bek Yevkurov ordered...

Ingush president Yunus-Bek Yevkurov ordered law enforcement forces on Tuesday to probe the relatives of the militants killed in recent police sweeps in Ingushetia, after the suicide bombings on the Moscow subway, the president"s spokesman said.

Investigators launched on Saturday a criminal...

Investigators launched on Saturday a criminal probe into an attack on a police patrol in western Moscow which left one officer dead and another badly injured, a police source said.

Irina Antonenko from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg...

Irina Antonenko from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg was crowned Miss Russia 2010 on Sunday.

It is "unjust" to call the Stalin-era famine...

It is "unjust" to call the Stalin-era famine that killed millions across the Soviet Union a genocide of the Ukrainian people, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Tuesday.

It is unusual to sum up the results of the...

It is unusual to sum up the results of the year in January but some people have calculated that this year China will overtake Japan, becoming the world"s second biggest economy after the United States. Arthur Kroeber, managing director of the Beijing-based company Dragonomics, has just made a statement to this effect. This forecast was already made in the fall but this time Kroeber is backing it up with statistics.

Leading Russian business daily Vedomosti...

Leading Russian business daily Vedomosti has filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the speaker of the Russian parliament"s lower house, the newspaper said in a statement on Tuesday.

Lithuanian special services are looking...

Lithuanian special services are looking into possible involvement of a Lithuanian woman in deadly twin blasts in the Moscow metro in late March, the Lietuvos Rytas newspaper said.

Liverpool star Yossi Benayoun could sign...

Liverpool star Yossi Benayoun could sign for Dynamo Moscow by Friday after personal terms were agreed, the Russian club said.

MOSCOW, April 23 (RIA Novosti) - MTS launched...

MOSCOW, April 23 (RIA Novosti) - MTS launched on Thursday wireless internet services through the BlackBerry platform to non-corporate subscribers, the president of Russia's largest mobile phone operator announced.

MOSCOW, April 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, April 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant Gazprom will invest at least 68 billion rubles ($2 billion) in the construction of facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi by 2012, a business paper said on Monday.

MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - Lieutenant...

MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - Lieutenant General Valery Yevnevich has started work as the new head of the Defense Ministry"s Combat Training Directorate, the General Staff said on Monday.

MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti) - A Proton-M...

MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti) - A Proton-M carrier rocket put into orbit on Wednesday a U.S. telecommunications satellite, the Russian Federal Space Agency said.

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St...

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St. Petersburg have signed 25-year-old attacking midfielder Alessandro Rosina from Torino, the club said on Friday.

MOSCOW, March 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, March 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s president Friday blasted the Justice Ministry for excessive bureaucracy in issuing real estate titles and formalizing deals.

MOSCOW, May 1 (RIA Novosti) - About 400,000...

MOSCOW, May 1 (RIA Novosti) - About 400,000 Russians on Friday celebrated Spring and Labor Day, with trade unions and political parties holding rallies across the country. "As of 15:00 Moscow time [11:00 GMT], 491 demonstrations, rallies and assemblies took place in Russia, with about 400,000 people participating," police said, adding that 32,000 police and Interior Ministry troops worked to ensure public order during the events across Russia. May 1 is Spring and Labor Day across Russia, a national holiday. In Soviet times May 1 saw massive Communist Party rallies. Moscow police reported earlier in the day that as around 25,000 people were taking part in events in downtown Moscow to mark the day, including demonstrations by the ruling United Russia party, the Communists and trade unions, the ultranationalist LDPR Party and the liberal Yabloko party. No public order problems were reported in Moscow, but police have detained 120 nationalists, anti-fascists and anarchists following demonstrations in St. Petersburg. Police seized a number of knives and rubber-bullets pistols.

MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Nikolai Davydenko and Mikhail Youzhny made winning starts at the 2009 Roland Garros tennis tournament on Monday.

MOSCOW, May 5 (RIA Novosti) - MTS, Russia"s...

MOSCOW, May 5 (RIA Novosti) - MTS, Russia"s largest mobile phone operator, has agreed with a group of foreign banks to reschedule its $630 million syndicated loan until 2012, a source in banking quarters said on Tuesday. MTS, which provides services to over 93 million subscribers in Russia alone, raised a syndicated loan facility worth a total of $1.33 billion in April 2006. The loan facility was granted in two tranches, $630 million and $730 million, for three and five years, respectively. The loan facility was arranged by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., Bayerische Landesbank, HSBC Bank plc, ING Bank N.V., Raiffeisen Zentralbank Oesterreich AG and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited. Later, some other major foreign banks joined the loan syndicate as its underwriters and managers. MTS channeled the loan proceeds into the refinancing of its liabilities, and also for general corporate needs, including the acquisition of companies. According to the source, the reschedule agreement with the banks is expected to be signed next week. The first tranche will have to be repaid at an annual interest rate of LIBOR plus 6.5% compared with the original rate of LIBOR plus 0.8%. On top of that, the mobile operator will have to pay a fee of 2.5% per annum to the consortium of banks. A company spokeswoman said that MTS, like any other company, was interested in the current economic conditions in prolonging the loan repayment as much as possible at a maximally advantageous rate. MTS posted a US GAAP net income of $1.93 billion and revenues of $10.25 billion in 2008.

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 10 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - The navies of two Koreas clashed Tuesday in the Yellow Sea along the disputed sea border between the two states, with the North suffering "considerable" damage, the Yonhap news agency reported.

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - The navies of South and North Koreas clashed Tuesday in the Yellow Sea along a disputed border, the Yonhap news agency reported.

MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s top health official urged the government Tuesday to introduce a state monopoly on alcohol amid the rising death toll from bootleg vodka in the country. Russia has recently been swept by large-scale outbreaks of alcohol poisoning in several regions as bootleg vodka and poisonous substitutes have been sold at low prices in the country. Hundreds of Russians have died and several thousand others have been hospitalized in Russia with toxic hepatitis caused by substandard vodka in recent weeks. Gennady Onishchenko said alcohol consumption has increased considerably in the country in the last 10 years. "In the 1990s, per capita consumption of alcohol stood at 7.6 liters. In 2005, the figure was already 9.7 liters," Onishchenko said. Onishchenko said his department and the Interior Ministry were taking active measures to expose bootleg vodka and alcohol substitutes. Some critics have blamed a new alcohol regulation policy, introduced in July, for causing widespread confusion and an attendant shortage of alcohol, leading many to resort to substandard bootleg liquor.

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is planning to expand its presence on arms and state security equipment markets in Europe by taking part in the Milipol Paris 2009 tradeshow, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation has said.

MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti, Ivan Korzun)...

MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti, Ivan Korzun) - The Russian Orthodox Church on Saturday commemorated St. Luke, who wrote one of the four Gospels and the book of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.

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 6 (RIA Novosti) - The French...

MOSCOW, October 6 (RIA Novosti) - The French carmaker Renault, which holds a blocking interest in AvtoVAZ, is willing to invest in the ailing Russian auto giant, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic correspondent...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic correspondent Maria Selivanova) - The struggle against corruption in Russia is, more often than not, fictional. There is practically no real progress, which is borne out by the results of the annual report published on November 17 by the international non-governmental organization Transparency International.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - Before the 20th century, the Arctic was a relatively peaceful region. The Russian Navy deployed its first permanent detachment there shortly before World War I when construction of the sprawling Romanov-on-Murman seaport, subsequently renamed as Murmansk, got underway.

Moscow"s chief firefighter has been killed...

Moscow"s chief firefighter has been killed in the fire that broke out at a business center in northern Moscow on Saturday, a senior emergencies ministry official said.

MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Criminal...

MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Criminal charges have been laid against the top management of a company accused of providing low-quality equipment for MiG-29 fighters later rejected by Algeria, Russia"s business daily Kommersant said on Friday.

NATO"s chief will meet with Russian President...

NATO"s chief will meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday to discuss the situations in Afghanistan and Iran, a European security treaty and a host of other issues, a Kremlin source said.

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.

NEW DELHI, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Indian...

NEW DELHI, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Indian President Pratibha Patil will pay a state visit to Russia on September 2-6, India"s foreign ministry said.

Nikolai Davydenko, Russia"s top men"s tennis...

Nikolai Davydenko, Russia"s top men"s tennis player, inched up to sixth place in the rankings on Monday after his victory in the yearend ATP World Tour Finals in London.

Nine people, who were injured in a fire...

Nine people, who were injured in a fire in the Urals city of Perm, were discharged from hospitals on Monday and Tuesday, the regional emergencies service said in a statement on Wednesday.

Police detained two schoolboys in East Siberia...

Police detained two schoolboys in East Siberia suspected of killing seven people, Russia"s investigative committee said on Thursday.

President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed...

President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed a deputy Russian justice minister and appointed a new interior minister in the volatile North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia as part of his efforts to improve law enforcement in Russia, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.