Museum of a name of Pushkin in Moscow

A Dubai court sentenced on Monday two men...

A Dubai court sentenced on Monday two men to 25 years in prison for their roles in the murder of the commander of a Russian Defense Ministry battalion in Chechnya.

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.

Russia is expecting Japan to review its...

Russia is expecting Japan to review its position over the South Kuril Islands, which has hampered relations between the two states, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said.