UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Moscow on March 17, two days ahead of the Mideast Quartet"s meeting, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
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.
Russia"s Central Elections Commission has proposed that preliminary voting, where those who cannot vote on election day cast their ballots early, be abolished at all levels, a CEC official said Tuesday.