Around Moscow
A Cambodia-flagged cargo ship with 24 Russians...
A Cambodia-flagged cargo ship with 24 Russians on board has been stranded in the Sea of Japan after the main engine failure amid a snow storm, a local sea rescue center official said on Friday.
A court in India found on Sunday the only...
A court in India found on Sunday the only surviving terrorist from a 2008 attack on Mumbai guilty of murder and waging war against India, national media said.
A delegation of U.S. Department of State...
A delegation of U.S. Department of State officials will pay a visit to Moscow next week for talks on child adoption rules, an assistant secretary for the department said.
A deputy head of the Moscow Region investigation...
A deputy head of the Moscow Region investigation department has been dismissed over a suspect"s death at a pre-trial detention center, the Russian Investigation Committee said on Tuesday.
An 8-year boy adopted by an American couple...
An 8-year boy adopted by an American couple is in the care of the Russian authorities after arriving in Moscow having apparently been abandoned by his parents, Russia"s ombudsman for children"s rights said on Thursday.
An unidentified gunman was killed by police...
An unidentified gunman was killed by police in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia on Saturday in a shootout at a sports center where the Ingush president was attending a Russia-wide judo tournament.
A RIA Novosti photo correspondent, Andrei...
A RIA Novosti photo correspondent, Andrei Stenin, was detained for a few hours by law enforcers on Saturday when filming an unauthorized opposition rally near the presidential administration building.
A Russian deputy prime minister said the...
A Russian deputy prime minister said the country"s environmentalists are aiming to "trash" the 2014 Olympics in Russia"s Black Sea resort city of Sochi instead of taking "a constructive stance."
A suspected militant has been killed in...
A suspected militant has been killed in a special operation near Nazran, the largest city of south Russia"s Republic of Ingushetia, a local police source has said.
A team of Russian lawmakers will fly on...
A team of Russian lawmakers will fly on Wednesday to Ukraine to take part in monitoring the runoff presidential election on February 7, the head of the Russian delegation said.
Bulgaria is not holding any official talks...
Bulgaria is not holding any official talks with the United States on hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield on its soil, Bulgarian Ambassador to Russia Plamen Grozdanov said on Wednesday.
By Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the...
By Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the Moscow-based magazine Russia in Global Affairs, for the Valdai Discussion Club
Chinese tourist companies are trying to...
Chinese tourist companies are trying to accommodate some 300 Russian tourists stranded in Beijing by air traffic disruption, the Russian embassy in Beijing said on Monday.
Damage inflicted by a powerful earthquake...
Damage inflicted by a powerful earthquake that hit Haiti in mid-January is comparable to 35-50% of the island nation"s GDP, President Rene Preval said.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said a failure in Copenhagen would be catastrophic and backed calls by developing nations to keep the Kyoto Protocol.
German hard rockers Rammstein put on a fiery...
German hard rockers Rammstein put on a fiery show at their Moscow concert, with a burning man running onto the stage during the song "Benzin."
Germany took its first gold medal in 2010...
Germany took its first gold medal in 2010 Olympics Vancouver after Felix Loch won men"s luge.
Global warming, which altered European winds...
Global warming, which altered European winds, was partially to blame for flight disruptions in Europe caused by an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano, the New Scientist has said.
In March 1990 the Third Extraordinary Congress...
In March 1990 the Third Extraordinary Congress of Soviet People's Deputies adopted the Law on the Institution of the Post of President and Introduction of Amendments into the Constitution of the U.S.S.R. These amendments abolished the "leading and guiding role of the CPSU," declared a multi-party system, and made the President the head of the Soviet state. Other Union republics followed suit, and switched to presidential form of government.
Iran hopes that Russia will fulfill its...
Iran hopes that Russia will fulfill its contract for the supply of S-300 air defense missile systems, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain...
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress."
More than 2,000 servicemen from Russia"s...
More than 2,000 servicemen from Russia"s Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) are taking part in large-scale command-and-staff exercises that started on Wednesday, a military spokesman said.
Moscow and Kiev could be plunged into a...
Moscow and Kiev could be plunged into a new diplomatic row with Ukraine"s presidential administration insisting the new Russian ambassador"s credentials should not be accepted, a Russian daily said on Friday.
MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will need an additional $5 billion to finish the construction of its segment of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2015, the head of Russia's rocket and space corporation Energia said Friday.
MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Palestinian...
MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to meet Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday for talks on Middle East issues.
MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - Depopulation...
MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - Depopulation rates in Russia slowed by 30.2% in the first six months of 2009 year-on-year, a Russian vice premier said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The results...
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The results of the Russian North Pole mission last week should be central to the country's case for ownership of a vast section of the Arctic, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - A court...
MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - A court in the U.S. state of Virginia on Wednesday acquitted Miles Harrison of the involuntary manslaughter of his 21-month-old son, according to a Fairfax County court verdict.
MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Oleg...
MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Oleg Deripaska, the owner of United Company RusAl, the world's largest aluminum producer, was elected as the company's chief executive, RusAl said on Sunday.
MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...
MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian regional court has given a deputy director of a local branch of Russia"s Civil Service Academy a 3 1/2 year suspended sentence for bribery. The court in Vladimir, to the east of Moscow, found Vladimir Starostin, a professor at the Academy"s management department, guilty of receiving a 100,000 ruble ($4,200) bribe in February this year from an applicant for helping him to become a student, local prosecutors said. The judgment comes as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a plan on Thursday to counter Russia"s rampant corruption. The president, a former lawyer, has made the fight against corruption one of his top priorities, signing a decree setting up a presidential anti-corruption council just two weeks after his inauguration.
MOSCOW, June 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's...
MOSCOW, June 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's electricity monopoly will cease to exist on Tuesday when wide-ranging reforms to the electricity market come into effect.
MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) - A consortium...
MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) - A consortium of Germany"s RWE and Russia"s Sintez successfully bid $380 million in an auction on Friday to buy a 33.47% stake in the TGK-2 generating company from Russian electricity monopoly UES. The territorial generating company unites assets in five regions of central and northern Russia. The deal brings the UES stake in the company down from 49.36% to 11.38%. RWE is a German electric power and natural gas public utility company. The Russian electricity giant has also sold a 34.06% stake in another territorial generating company, TGK-6, to Integrated Energy Systems (IES holding) for 9.98 billion rubles ($421.3 million). TGK-6 operates in four Russian regions and in Mordovia in the Volga area. Both deals were part of UES reforms in which generating assets are being privatized.
MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti) - Central...
MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti) - Central Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Region will present four large investment projects at the Cannes 20th commercial property fair, the regional governor said on Monday.
MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - A leading...
MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - A leading U.S. analyst has said the NATO-Russia Council is the perfect forum for talks on Arctic security.
MOSCOW, November 5 (RIA Novosti) - One of...
MOSCOW, November 5 (RIA Novosti) - One of two suspects detained on suspicion of involvement in the January murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and trainee journalist Anastasia Baburova has confessed, the head of Russia"s FSB said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Two famed...
MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Two famed WWII T-34 tanks will take part in a march on Moscow"s Red Square on Saturday to commemorate the legendary military parade of 1941 and in honor of the country"s World War II effort.
MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday identified priorities for the domestic economy"s modernization, with energy efficiency, information technology, civilian nuclear energy and pharmaceuticals outlined as target areas.
MOSCOW, October 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, October 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian and foreign investigators have agreed on a unified approach to probing the July seizure of the Arctic Sea dry cargo ship and its crew, a spokesman for Russian investigators said on Monday.
MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...
MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian police officer who went on a shooting spree in a Moscow supermarket in April had robbed the store several times before the incident, a popular tabloid quoted the supermarket administrator as saying.
MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a brief working visit to Sri Lanka on October 26, the ministry said on Friday.
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - Countries...
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - Countries that do not threaten Russia have no reason to fear its new military doctrine, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - Neither...
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - Neither Russia nor Ukraine are seeking to revise the terms of an agreement on the presence of Russia"s Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea, the countries" foreign ministers said on Friday.
MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Pyongyang...
MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Pyongyang is ready to discuss with foreign mediators the nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula in bilateral and multilateral formats, the official N. Korean news agency KCNA said on Monday.
MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - The Pacific...
MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said it had canceled the tsunami warning it issued following powerful quakes in Vanuatu on Thursday.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev)
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev)
MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - The...
MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - The Bank of New York will pay Russia"s customs authorities at least $14 million as an out-of-court settlement of a $22.5 billion money laundering lawsuit, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Saudi Arabia are holding talks on military-technical cooperation, which may include sales of military equipment to the Arab country, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed on Tuesday media speculation that the Arctic Sea cargo ship, recently hijacked in the Atlantic, was carrying missiles for S-300 air defense systems.
MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA...
MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA Novosti) - Developed countries' obligations on the Kyoto Protocol will come into force on February 16.
NEW YORK, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - Sales...
NEW YORK, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - Sales of Russian artworks netted about $13.8 million at an auction at Sotheby"s in New York, well above the estimate of $6-9 mln and despite the global economic crisis, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
No increased levels of toxic volcanic gases...
No increased levels of toxic volcanic gases have been observed in Russia following the major volcano eruption in Iceland, Russia"s meteorological service said on Monday.
One more person has been rescued from under...
One more person has been rescued from under an avalanche after a helicopter with a group of German tourists went missing on the Kamchatka Peninsula earlier on Saturday, a Far East Emergencies Ministry spokesman said.
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(Recasts headline, lead, adds FSB denial) MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Audit Chamber said Wednesday one of its employees has been detained on suspicion of receiving a one million euro ($1.4 million) bribe. Earlier reports said that the suspect, Yury Gaidukov, was an officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) assigned to the Audit Chamber. However, the FSB denied that Gaidukov was its employee. A spokesman for the Moscow District Military Court said Gaidukov"s defense lawyers have appealed against the arrest warrant to a higher court.
Reuters Moscow said Thursday certain Internet...
Reuters Moscow said Thursday certain Internet media distorted the true meaning of an interview Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov gave the news agency recently.
RIGA, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - Latvia has...
RIGA, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - Latvia has asked Russia to provide more information on two Latvian nationals Moscow says were involved in the seizure of the merchant ship Arctic Sea, the Baltic state"s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Russia and European countries should adopt...
Russia and European countries should adopt a law banning the expansion of religious extremism, which results in deaths, a senior Russian Orthodox Church spokesman said on Thursday.
Russia hopes that the Obama administration...
Russia hopes that the Obama administration will resubmit the Russian-U.S. agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy to the Senate for ratification, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev does not...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev does not rule out the possibility of imposing reasonable sanctions on Iran, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the interior minister to probe last week"s car crash in Moscow involving a LUKoil vice-president that killed two doctors, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday the country needs to develop its own computer games industry.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew back on Sunday to the site of the Polish plane crash near Smolensk in west Russia to pay last respects to Polish President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in the incident.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin justified...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin justified on Monday Russia"s claims for the Arctic continental shelf and urged other nations to resolve all controversial issues through dialogue.
Russians annually spend some $17 billion...
Russians annually spend some $17 billion on drugs that mainly come from Afghanistan, Russia"s chief sanitary doctor said on Monday.
Russia"s Gazprom and Ukrainian gas company...
Russia"s Gazprom and Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz are ready to consider an assets swap, the head of the Russian energy giant said on Friday.
Senior members of the ruling United Russia...
Senior members of the ruling United Russia party, which has a parliamentary majority, said they were planning to demand the resignation of Sergei Mironov, speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament over his criticism of polices conducted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
SUKHUMI, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Abkhaz...
SUKHUMI, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh confirmed Tuesday that two Russian military bases are to be stationed in the republic, recognized as an independent state by Moscow on August 26.
Swiss alpine skier Carlo Janka took the...
Swiss alpine skier Carlo Janka took the Olympic gold in men"s giant slalom.
Tehran is still open to discussion on a...
Tehran is still open to discussion on a nuclear fuel swap with any supplier, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
The attacker of an elderly Russian human...
The attacker of an elderly Russian human rights activist has been given a one-year suspended sentence by a Moscow court.
The Caesar Kunikov large amphibious landing...
The Caesar Kunikov large amphibious landing ship from Russia"s Black Sea Fleet set out on Thursday to take part in Blackseafor naval drills, the fleet"s press service said.
The Canadian team of Charles and Francois...
The Canadian team of Charles and Francois Hamelin, Olivier Jean and Francois-Louis Tremblay won men"s 5,000-meter short track relay with the result of 6 minutes 44.224 seconds.
The controversial TV series School reflects...
The controversial TV series School reflects Russia"s reality and demonstrates the need for pupils to have classes on moral values, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church said Monday.
The crew of the Polish president"s plane...
The crew of the Polish president"s plane, which crashed in Russia last Saturday killing President Lech Kaczynski and other top officials, attempted to land without permission, an air traffic controller said on Tuesday.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church...
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church will visit Egypt in April to meet with the country"s religious and political figures, the Arab republic"s ambassador to Russia said Saturday.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church...
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church said youth leaders will be educated at a new faculty of the St. Tikhon Orthodox University of Humanities in Moscow, which will open next year.
The online international social network...
The online international social network Facebook is to open an office in Moscow and start talks with local mobile phone operators as part of a project to expand operations in Russia, a Russian business daily said on Friday.
The Russian Armed Forces must keep up with...
The Russian Armed Forces must keep up with modern challenges to reliably ensure national security, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
The Russian Defense Ministry does not expect...
The Russian Defense Ministry does not expect any problems with the military draft due to a sharp drop in birth rates in Russia in the 1990s, a senior military official said on Thursday.
The Russian team of Svetlana Sleptsova...
The Russian team of Svetlana Sleptsova, Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Olga Medvedtseva and Olga Zaitseva took Olympic gold in Vancouver on Tuesday in the women"s biathlon relay.
TSKHINVAL, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - The South...
TSKHINVAL, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - The South Ossetian top election body declared Sunday"s parliamentary elections in the former Georgian republic valid, with more than 50% of registered voters casting their ballots.
Two more sports officials have been given...
Two more sports officials have been given the boot in a Kremlin-led purge of officials responsible for Russia"s poor performance at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Ukraine is relying on the European Bank...
Ukraine is relying on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for a project to modernize Ukraine"s gas transportation system, the Ukrainian prime minister said.
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While western countries have expressed their...
While western countries have expressed their condolences over the terrorist attack on the Moscow Metro, many foreign analysts explain it as a consequence of Russia’s failure to deal with the situation in the North Caucasus. Once again the world media have recalled the separatists that fought for Chechnya’s independence. They only mention the underground caliphate and its self-proclaimed emir, Doku Umarov, in passing.