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A Chechen lawmaker on Thursday slammed the...
A Chechen lawmaker on Thursday slammed the idea of fingerprinting all North Caucasus residents as a violation of their human and civil rights.
A court in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev...
A court in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on Tuesday banned supporters of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych"s supporters from holding rallies at the central square, the venue of Orange Revolution in 2004, before and after the runoff vote slated for Sunday.
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 large fire which broke out in a construction...
A large fire which broke out in a construction market outside Moscow on Monday was successfully put out, a Russian Emergencies Ministry spokesman said.
A Moscow court overturned on Thursday an...
A Moscow court overturned on Thursday an earlier court ruling that found a photo correspondent covering an unsanctioned protest guilty of taking part in it.
A Moscow court warned media on Thursday...
A Moscow court warned media on Thursday against exerting pressure on judges over a RIA Novosti photo correspondent fined for photographing an unsanctioned opposition meeting.
A new earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter...
A new earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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.
An Israeli defense delegation headed by...
An Israeli defense delegation headed by National Security Advisor Uzi Arad has departed secretly for India, American Arab-language television station al-Houra reported on Monday.
Apparently Lech Kaczynski always wanted...
Apparently Lech Kaczynski always wanted his twin brother Jaroslaw to be president of Poland. At least, this is what the political supporters of the Kaczynski brothers have been saying following Lech"s death in a plane crash outside Smolensk and Jaroslaw"s nomination as his party"s candidate for president. They have even claimed that Lech thought his twin brother would do a better job as president. So, will Jaroslaw take up his brother"s mantle?
Armenia and Russia denied a stalemate in...
Armenia and Russia denied a stalemate in talks on the Soviet-era Nagorny Karabakh dispute with Azerbaijan on Thursday.
Arsenal"s Andrei Arshavin will miss at least...
Arsenal"s Andrei Arshavin will miss at least the next "two or three weeks" with a calf strain, the Russian international said on his website on Thursday.
A solution to the Middle East conflict has...
A solution to the Middle East conflict has yet to be found, PNA leader Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday.
Canada won three gold medals in a row on...
Canada won three gold medals in a row on the 16th day of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, securing the top place in overall gold medal count.
Closer cooperation with Russia should become...
Closer cooperation with Russia should become a major foreign policy priority for NATO, but better relations with Moscow cannot come at the expense of the security of eastern European alliance members, an influential U.S. foreign policy research center has said.
CSKA Moscow will take on Spanish club Sevilla...
CSKA Moscow will take on Spanish club Sevilla in the first knockout stage of this season"s Champions League.
Dozens of ships, including ferries with...
Dozens of ships, including ferries with over 1,000 passengers on board, have become stuck in ice in the Baltic Sea, the BBC reported citing Swedish maritime authorities.
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has been...
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has been taken to a New York hospital with a heart complaint, Sky News said on Friday.
Gas pipelines and a project to build the...
Gas pipelines and a project to build the first nuclear power plant in Turkey, will dominate talks between the Russian president and the visiting Turkish premier on Wednesday, the Kremlin said.
Georgian Airways will perform three direct...
Georgian Airways will perform three direct charter flights to Moscow on January 8-10, a spokesperson for the airline said on Monday.
Irina Antonenko from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg...
Irina Antonenko from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg was crowned Miss Russia 2010, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Sunday.
Kiev is seeking to be the venue for the...
Kiev is seeking to be the venue for the signing of a new nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States, a respected Russian business daily reported on Tuesday.
Legendary Formula One driver, seven-time...
Legendary Formula One driver, seven-time World Champion, Michael Schumacher, will return next year to "Royal Racing" at the age of 41 after signing a contract with the Mercedes Benz team on Wednesday.
Legendary rockers Metallica will play their...
Legendary rockers Metallica will play their two concerts in Moscow this weekend despite the ongoing chaos with air travel across Europe, the concert organizers 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.
More than 40% of Russians believe that judges...
More than 40% of Russians believe that judges at the Vancouver Winter Olympics will demonstrate an anti-Russia bias, a survey revealed on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will spend 470 billion rubles ($15 billion) on arms, equipment and maintenance of its Armed Forces in 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Friday.
MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and the United States have coordinated the bulk of documents paving the way for a new agreement on fishing in northern areas of the Bering Sea, a senior Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday. The new agreement is designed to compensate Russia for losses from fishing areas ceded to the United States in line with the so called Baker-Shevardnadze agreement on the delimitation of waters in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Igor Neverov, Director of the ministry"s North American Department, said: "For several years Russia has held talks with the United States to sign a comprehensive fishing agreement in the northern part of the Bering Sea that would compensate Russian fishermen for losses from fishing in areas ceded to the United States. I can say that the bulk of the documents comprising the agreement have been so far coordinated." The diplomat said that Russia had not put forward the issue of ratifying the agreement, mainly due to inconsistencies over the economic losses suffered by Russia in the Bering Sea. He also said that the Russian government had repeatedly checked the agreement"s compliance with international maritime laws, Russian interests and an assessment of the potential consequences in case the agreement is not ratified. "The resulting conclusion was that the agreement does not contradict Russian interests, except for the loss of fishing rights in central areas of the Bering Sea," Neverov said. Meanwhile, Russia will invest up to 35 billion rubles ($1.43 billion) in projects to develop the coastal infrastructure for the fishing industry within the next three years, Andrei Krainy, head of the Federal Agency for Fishing, told a news conference in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea. He said large investment would be required following amendments to federal laws on fishing coming into effect on January 1, 2009. Under the amendments, foreigners will be banned from fishing within 200 miles from Russian coasts and will have to submit their catches to Russian customs inspectors. "The restrictions will be imposed because some Asia-Pacific countries have created an entire industry processing Russian fishing resources illegally. As a result, Russia has been losing huge amounts of fish," Krainy said. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker signed the agreement in Washington on June 1, 1990. The agreement was designed to clear differences in the understanding of the demarcation line set by the Russian-American convention of 1867 on the concession of Alaska. The U.S. received an additional sea area in 1977, during the demarcation of the Bering Sea fishing zone, and the Soviet Union had its fishing zone reduced as a result. Washington compensated Moscow for losses with annual fishing quotas up to 1981, when Soviet troops entered Afghanistan. The two powers started drafting a new agreement in 1981.
Moscow disapproves of Israel"s decision...
Moscow disapproves of Israel"s decision to put two mosques in the West Bank on its national heritage list which would hamper the resumption of peace dialogue, a senior Russian diplomat said on Friday.
MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow's...
MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow's top investigators will be involved in a probe into the murder of a lawyer, who represented the family of a Chechen woman killed by a Russian officer, the Moscow police chief said on Wednesday.
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 21 (RIA Novosti) - About 320,000...
MOSCOW, July 21 (RIA Novosti) - About 320,000 young men are to be drafted into the Russian Armed Forces in the fall of 2009, a deputy chief of the General Staff said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia must do more to attract leading scientists, both Russian and foreign, President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.
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 police detained about 30 people...
Moscow police detained about 30 people, including a controversial Russian opposition leader, on Wednesday as they attempted to hold an unauthorized protest in the city center, a local police spokesperson said.
Moscow"s leading cultural figures signed...
Moscow"s leading cultural figures signed an unprecedented open letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urging him to take under his personal control the investigation into a car accident last week killing two people.
NATO"s expansion does not threaten Russia...
NATO"s expansion does not threaten Russia, the U.S. state secretary said in a speech on the alliance"s mission on Monday.
NEW DELHI, January 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
NEW DELHI, January 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and India are concerned about the deteriorating situation in Iraq, a joint statement said Thursday during the Russian president's visit to India.
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.
North Korea has shut down ports on its western...
North Korea has shut down ports on its western coast and could be readying to test-fire missiles, South Korea"s Yonhap agency said on Tuesday, citing a military official.
Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesic...
Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesic could become head of a company to build Croatia"s segment of the South Stream gas pipeline, if Zagreb joins the project, Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List reported on Sunday.
Police in Russia"s North Caucasus Republic...
Police in Russia"s North Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have prevented a major terrorist attack after discovering a powerful bomb planted near a busy road, a police source said on Tuesday.
Restrictions on professional photo and video...
Restrictions on professional photo and video shooting in the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square may soon be lifted.
Restrictions on professional video and photo...
Restrictions on professional video and photo shoots in Red Square and the Kremlin will be lifted soon, the government agency in charge of presidential security said on Thursday.
Russia and Abkhazia have not discussed the...
Russia and Abkhazia have not discussed the redeployment of Russia"s Black Sea fleet warships from Ukraine"s Crimea to the former Georgian republic, the Abkhazian leader said on Thursday.
Russia and India could reach an annual trade...
Russia and India could reach an annual trade of $10 billion in 2010, the Kremlin said Sunday.
Russia and India have reached an agreement...
Russia and India have reached an agreement to complete a refit of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier, a Kremlin source said on Monday.
Russia has lost two cases in the Strasbourg...
Russia has lost two cases in the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights over the disappearance of several people in Chechnya, the statement on the court"s website said on Friday.
Russia is deporting four Iranian citizens...
Russia is deporting four Iranian citizens who have attempted to sneak on board a Russian ship bound to Japan, a spokesman for the borderguards service in Russia"s Far East said on Thursday.
Russia is ready to import poultry from India...
Russia is ready to import poultry from India if the U.S. does not resume its supplies, Russian agriculture minister Yelena Skrynnik said on Friday after a meeting with her Indian counterpart.
Russian-British joint oil venture TNK-BP...
Russian-British joint oil venture TNK-BP said on Wednesday it had placed Eurobonds worth $1 billion with maturities in 2015 and 2020 to fund its current operations and refinance its short-term liabilities.
Russian communication service providers...
Russian communication service providers agreed on Tuesday to fight child pornography in the Internet.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Tuesday discussed with U.S. Ambassador John Beyrle in Moscow the status of a new strategic arms reduction deal and the situation around Iran"s nuclear program.
Russia needs a flexible multi-party system...
Russia needs a flexible multi-party system on both federal and regional levels to match its bold modernization plans, President Dmitry Medvedev instructed top officials on Friday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed hope on Friday that a "new quality" in relations between Moscow and Kiev will be established.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on Russia implementing beefed-up UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea over a nuclear test last year.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Thursday that he and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would make a joint decision on the future of their "effective" ruling tandem.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday a special official should be appointed to coordinate efforts aimed at improving the standards of living in Russia"s North Caucasus and assuring security in the region.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia and Turkey could swap their energy assets and suggested Moscow help Turkey improve its ties with ex-Soviet Armenia.
Russian pro-Kremlin United Russia party...
Russian pro-Kremlin United Russia party deputies have cautiously backed a proposal to forbid media outlets from broadcasting statements by terrorists.
Russia"s chief rabbi called on Tuesday Ukraine"s...
Russia"s chief rabbi called on Tuesday Ukraine"s views on World War Two "false and distorted" after Kiev posthumously honored a nationalist accused by Russia of Nazi collaboration.
Russia"s Finance Ministry has raised its...
Russia"s Finance Ministry has raised its forecast of federal budget deficit for 2010 to 7.2% of GDP from 6.8%, Deputy Finance Minister Tatyana Nesterenko said on Friday.
Russia, which has managed to restore peace...
Russia, which has managed to restore peace in the North Caucasus, is now to prove that the social and economic situation in the region can also be improved, the country"s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.
Said Buryatsky, a notorious gang leader...
Said Buryatsky, a notorious gang leader in Russia"s North Caucasus, killed in a special operation on Tuesday, was involved in the derailment of a Moscow-St. Petersburg train in November 2009, the head of the Federal Security Service said on Saturday.
Sales of all alcoholic beverages, including...
Sales of all alcoholic beverages, including beer, should be prohibited in Russia between 9:00 p.m. and until morning, Russia"s chief sanitary doctor said.
Sapsan, Russia"s first train capable of...
Sapsan, Russia"s first train capable of travelling at a speed of 250 kmph (155 mph), will make its first commercial run between Russia"s two largest cities on Thursday.
Sergei Bagapsh was sworn in on Friday for...
Sergei Bagapsh was sworn in on Friday for his second term as president of Abkhazia, thanking Russia in his inaugural address for helping the republic achieve independence from Georgia.
The conflict between Russia"s ruling pro-Kremlin...
The conflict between Russia"s ruling pro-Kremlin party United Russia and upper house speaker Sergei Mironov over the latter"s disagreement with the prime minister ended peacefully when the sides signed an agreement.
The death toll from the devastating earthquake...
The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Haiti has exceeded 150,000, BBC has said, quoting a Haitian minister.
The head of police in the West Siberian...
The head of police in the West Siberian Tomsk Region was dismissed from office on Friday, two days after the death of journalist who was beaten and sexually abused in a police drunk tank.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church...
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church held a prayer service in downtown Moscow"s Christ the Savior Cathedral on Thursday to see Russia"s Olympic competitors off for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
The Moscow City Court sentenced former police...
The Moscow City Court sentenced former police chief Denis Yevsyukov to life in prison for last year"s shooting spree in a Moscow supermarket which left two people dead and seven injured.
The new Belarusian defense minister, Yury...
The new Belarusian defense minister, Yury Zhadobin, will discuss military cooperation between Russia and the ex-Soviet state with his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov on January 29 in Moscow, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The new Russia-U.S. strategic arms reduction...
The new Russia-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty stipulates that the two states reduce their nuclear arsenals to the agreed levels in seven years, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Friday.
The new Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction...
The new Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty to be signed soon, contains no clauses making it easier for the U.S. to build a missile shield posing a threat to Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
The next test launch of Russia"s troubled...
The next test launch of Russia"s troubled Bulava intercontinental missile could take place in January, an unidentified Defense Ministry official said on Friday.
The operator of the Nord Stream gas pipeline...
The operator of the Nord Stream gas pipeline project said on Thursday it had received approval from German authorities to connect the trans-Baltic pipeline to the European gas network.
The president of the International Olympic...
The president of the International Olympic Committee has criticized Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko for his behavior after Thursday"s men"s free skating competition at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
There are no technical constraints to extending...
There are no technical constraints to extending the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) until at least 2020, top international space officials said on Thursday.
There is nothing to stop Russia from selling...
There is nothing to stop Russia from selling military equipment to Iran, the head of Russia"s state-run arms exporter said on Thursday.
The sale of several Russian radio stations...
The sale of several Russian radio stations owned by media magnate Rupert Murdoch may be delayed over uncertainty about the stake of his late Georgian partner in the project, a business daily reported on Thursday.
Three police officers were killed and seven...
Three police officers were killed and seven injured during a clash with militants in Russia"s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, local police said on Monday.
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