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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev begins...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev begins his three-day visit to Kazakhstan on Saturday to discuss a customs union and a single economic space with presidents of Kazakhstan and Belarus.

The very fact that the Israeli Prime Minister...

The very fact that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow is a major success for Russian diplomacy. Not least because Russia is the only country in the world that has been visited by all the sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict over the past six months, including the most radical ones.

MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Nikolai Davydenko and Dinara Safina both won their third round matches at the French Open on Friday. Tenth seed Davydenko, who is the only Russian male player left in the tournament, dispatched Stanislas Wawrinka (17) from Switzerland in four sets 6:3, 4:6, 6:3, 6:2 to set up a fourth round head-to-head with eighth seed Fernando Verdasco from Spain. On form world no 1 Dinara Safina overawed fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, seeded 27, to win in straight sets 6:2, 6:0 and will now face Aravane Rezai from France. Also due to play later are former world no one Maria Sharapova, who recently returned to tennis after 10 months out with a shoulder injury, fourth seed Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova (7). Sharapova will take on another unseeded player, Yaroslava Shvedova from Kazakhstan, while Dementieva faces Australian Samantha Stosur (30) and Kuznetsova has a showdown lined up with Hungary"s Melinda Czin.