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An eighty-two year old Russian human rights...

An eighty-two year old Russian human rights activist has been attacked while paying tribute to the people who died in the Moscow metro bombings.

An elderly man was killed during a fire...

An elderly man was killed during a fire in an apartment in west Moscow early on Saturday, emergency services said.

An incorrect timing might have cost a medal...

An incorrect timing might have cost a medal in the women"s biathlon pursuit to Sweden"s Anna-Carin Olofsson-Zidek, the national team"s head coach told Swedish media.

A single terrorist group may be behind the...

A single terrorist group may be behind the bombings in Moscow and Dagestan, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

At the 53rd session of the UN Commission...

At the 53rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Russia is trying, albeit belatedly, to raise global awareness of the need to counter the Afghan drug trade.

Beams of protons have started circulating...

Beams of protons have started circulating in both directions around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a scientist participating in the experiment said on Monday.

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By Toby T. Gati, Senior International Advisor...

By Toby T. Gati, Senior International Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

China"s Wang Meng has set a new Olympic...

China"s Wang Meng has set a new Olympic record in the women"s 500 meters short-track speed skating event at Vancouver Games.

Chinese leader Hu Jintao will visit Moscow...

Chinese leader Hu Jintao will visit Moscow to participate in the 65th Victory Day celebrations on May 9, Russian Ambassador Sergei Razov said in Beijing, on Wednesday.

Finding the organizers of the terrorist...

Finding the organizers of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro is a matter of honor for the security agencies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said during questions at a conference on transport security on Tuesday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend a Victory Day Parade on Moscow"s Red Square on May 9, a German government spokesman said on Friday.

Hundreds of alarmed people called a Moscow...

Hundreds of alarmed people called a Moscow psychiatric institute following two terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway, a spokesman for the institute said on Tuesday.

Ingush President Yunus Bek-Yevkurov said...

Ingush President Yunus Bek-Yevkurov said on Monday the latest spate of bomb attacks in Russia were links in the same chain.

It is "unjust" to call the Stalin-era famine...

It is "unjust" to call the Stalin-era famine that killed millions across the Soviet Union a genocide of the Ukrainian people, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Tuesday.

KIEV, July 27 (RIA Novosti) - Patriarch...

KIEV, July 27 (RIA Novosti) - Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko laid wreaths at the memorial of 1932-33 famine victims in Kiev on Monday.

Late Pope John Paul II could become the...

Late Pope John Paul II could become the patron saint of sportsmen and women after beatification, the Vatican radio reported Tuesday.

MARIBOR, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - Guus...

MARIBOR, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - Guus Hiddink"s Russia lost 1-0 away to Slovenia on Wednesday evening and will miss out on the 2010 World Cup finals.

More than 11 kilograms of heroin have been...

More than 11 kilograms of heroin have been seized from five people in an operation in Russia"s Urals city of Yekaterinburg, local drug police said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, April 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, April 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday spoke on the phone with Kyrgyz opposition-nominated premier Roza Otunbayeva, Putin"s spokesman said.

MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - The Arctic...

MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - The Arctic Sea cargo vessel, recently freed from hijackers by a Russian missile frigate, is heading to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiisk for an investigation, the Russian defense minister said on Thursday.

MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian...

MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that no suspicious cargo was found aboard Arctic Sea ship, which was allegedly seized by eight hijackers and later freed by the Russian Navy.

MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - Anatoly...

MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - Anatoly Byshovets was appointed Tuesday head coach of Russia's soccer club Lokomotiv Moscow, one of Russia's oldest and most famous clubs, a club official said.

MOSCOW, February 25 (RIA Novosti) - One...

MOSCOW, February 25 (RIA Novosti) - One in four crimes involving the Armed Forces and other security departments in Russia was committed by officers last year causing over 2 billion rubles ($55.8 million) in losses, the chief military prosecutor said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St...

MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St. Petersburg are speaking to former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson about him taking over the side when Dick Advocaat quits at the end of the year, the Fontanka paper said on Friday.

MOSCOW, June 8 (RIA Novosti) - Scientists...

MOSCOW, June 8 (RIA Novosti) - Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) are finishing repairs to the Large Hadron Collider, which has been out of operation since September, CERN said on its website.

MOSCOW, May 12 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St...

MOSCOW, May 12 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St. Petersburg trainer Dick Advocaat could combine his duties as club manager with the post of coach of the Belgian national side, the Sovetski Sport paper said on Tuesday. Belgian FA officials are due in St. Petersburg for talks with Advocaat, 61, in the next few days, the paper wrote. The report also said that Advocaat was the Belgians" preferred candidate for the post, but that they lacked the means to buy out his contract with Zenit, which runs until the end of 2009. Dutch trainer Advocaat, who has won the UEFA Cup and the Russian Premier League title with Zenit since taking over at the club in 2006, has already admitted holding talks in April with Belgian officials. Advocaat has previously managed his native Holland (twice), South Korea and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Glasgow Rangers and Germany"s Borussia Monchengladbach.

MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Nikolai Davydenko and Mikhail Youzhny made winning starts at the 2009 Roland Garros tennis tournament on Monday.

MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian international...

MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian international Andrei Arshavin has been voted Arsenal fans" player of the month for the second time in a row. In April, Arshavin scored four times in a thrilling 4-4 draw with Liverpool at Anfield. He also scored in a 4-1 win at Wigan and, as the club"s website noted, "continued to rack up the assists for his team-mates, setting up goals against Wigan, Middlesbrough and Portsmouth." Arshavin got 70.4% of the vote, with Cesc Fabergas coming a distant second with 9.3%. The former Zenit St. Petersburg player signed for the club at the start of February after protracted and torturous transfer negotiations, but did not make his debut until toward the end of that month. His agent recently denied saying that other senior Arsenal players were "jealous" of the Russian"s popularity.

MOSCOW, November 13 (RIA Novosti) - Two...

MOSCOW, November 13 (RIA Novosti) - Two firefighters died and seven soldiers were injured during blasts at a Russian military depot in the city of Ulyanovsk in the Volga Region, the Defense Ministry said Friday.

MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...

MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian nuclear submarine has successfully test-launched a ballistic missile, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - Berlin...

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - Berlin police searched 26 apartments on Wednesday in a series of raids targeting 13 Chechen extremists living in the city"s Neukolln and Kreuzberg districts, a police spokesman said.

MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - The Pacific...

MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami alert for southwestern Pacific countries over a powerful quake in Vanuatu.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry Babich) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been invited to attend this month"s events marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz (Polish: Oswiecim) by the Red Army.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - The nuclear submarine K-152 Nerpa has joined the Russian Navy. The new Project 971U boat is planned to be leased to India, to which it will sail next summer. An Indian crew will undergo training aboard it before the hand-over ceremony.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, did not go as expected. It became clear a week before it ended on December 18 that a new global agreement to combat climate change beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol expires, will not be signed.

MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA...

MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA Novosti) Two years have passed since the Kyoto Protocol (KP) went into force. A total of 150 nations have ratified this extraordinary international document.

Now that the U.S. and Russia signed a new...

Now that the U.S. and Russia signed a new nuclear agreement in Prague on April 8, the world can turn its attention to other nuclear conundrums.

On April 14, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...

On April 14, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to pay an official visit to Argentina, the first Russian official visit since bilateral diplomatic relations were established 125 years ago, that is, in October 1885.

On January 28, London will play host to...

On January 28, London will play host to a conference on Afghanistan, where representatives will try to organize an approach and funding for ensuring security in the Islamic Republic, integrating it into global civilized life, and integrating the Taliban into peaceful life in that country.

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is likely...

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is likely to decrease in 2010, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report released on Wednesday.

Police have detained suspects accused of...

Police have detained suspects accused of organizing the March 29 Moscow metro suicide attacks, a law enforcement source said on Friday.

Popping outside to move the car to a different...

Popping outside to move the car to a different parking space is something most of us do without a second thought, but on Thursday it will be a major endeavor for Maxim Surayev.

Reigning Olympic champions Sweden confidently...

Reigning Olympic champions Sweden confidently defeated Belarus 4-2 at the 2010 Olympic Games in Canada"s Vancouver.

Roman Pavlyuchenko fired Tottenham Hotspur...

Roman Pavlyuchenko fired Tottenham Hotspur to a 3-1 victory over Blackburn Rovers on Saturday with his fourth and fifth goals in three league games.

Russia has proposed clearing Turkey"s Black...

Russia has proposed clearing Turkey"s Black Sea straits from oil tankers and transport oil via two pipelines, which are under construction to pump crude to Europe across the sea, Russian daily Izvestia reported.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss the the Nagorny Karabakh issue during his two-day visit to Armenia that kicks off Wednesday.

Russian physicists at the Joint Institute...

Russian physicists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna have with U.S. colleagues successfully synthesized a new element, a leading researcher said on Wednesday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev believes...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev believes punishment for terrorists should be revised.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanded...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanded tightened security across the country after the early Monday morning blasts in the Moscow subway and pledged government assistance to the families of those who died or were injured in the explosions.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed into law on Monday a regulation on duty-free oil supplies to Belarus following a bitter dispute between the two ex-Soviet republics that threatened crude deliveries to Europe.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has no doubts that the organizers of the deadly blasts in the Moscow subway carried out on Monday morning will be punished.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday called on businessmen not to cash in on the tragedy on the Moscow subway.

Russian rescue workers and Chilean troops...

Russian rescue workers and Chilean troops have unloaded the first plane with humanitarian aid to Chile which has been devastated by a series of earthquakes.

Russia"s Islamic Cultural Center will pay...

Russia"s Islamic Cultural Center will pay 1 million rubles ($30,000) for any information on the organizers of the Moscow subway bomb attack, the organization"s president said on Tuesday.

Russia"s State Duma has welcomed Ukrainian...

Russia"s State Duma has welcomed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych"s opinion on the recognition of Ukrainian genocide during the 1930s, the speaker of the parliament"s lower house, Boris Gryzlov, said on Wednesday.

Russia will not send troops to help NATO...

Russia will not send troops to help NATO forces counter Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, where it fought in 1979-1989, the country"s top security official said on Tuesday.

Serbian international Milos Krasic has said...

Serbian international Milos Krasic has said he plans to leave CSKA Moscow before the World Cup kicks off in June.

The chemical element with the atomic number...

The chemical element with the atomic number 112 has been officially registered under the permanent name "Copernicium," a leading scientist said on Friday.

The council of ministers of a post-Soviet...

The council of ministers of a post-Soviet security group, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), will gather in Moscow on Thursday to coordinate foreign policy.

The eruption of the volcano on the Eyjafjallajokull...

The eruption of the volcano on the Eyjafjallajokull Glacier in Iceland, which began on Wednesday, has already paralyzed air traffic in Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the majority of Nordic countries.

The first terrorist attack on the Russian...

The first terrorist attack on the Russian capital for six years killed over 30 people as two terrorist bombs ripped through the central Moscow metro system during Monday morning"s rush hour.

The head of Russia"s Orthodox Church warned...

The head of Russia"s Orthodox Church warned on Friday against rushing to accuse "individuals or groups" of the murder of a priest in Moscow.

The international nuclear community seems...

The international nuclear community seems to need something like a miracle to get serious about developing new standards to ensure compliance with international nuclear obligations. Further proof of this fact was provided by Barack Obama"s Nuclear Security Summit held in Washington on April 12-13.

The people behind the Moscow metro blasts...

The people behind the Moscow metro blasts and another attack in the Dagestani town of Kizlyar have been identified, Russia"s anti-terrorist chief said on Tuesday.

There are no delays in implementation of...

There are no delays in implementation of the South Stream gas pipeline project, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Italy on Monday.

The Russian Pacific Fleet"s Udaloy class...

The Russian Pacific Fleet"s Udaloy class missile destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov started escorting 15 civilian vessels through the Gulf of Aden near the Somali coast on Monday to protect the ships from pirates, a Russian Navy spokesman said.

The town of Coonamble in Australia"s most...

The town of Coonamble in Australia"s most populous New South Wales state is preparing for its worst flood in more than 50 years, the ABC has said.

The United States has completed a military...

The United States has completed a military operation in Afghanistan"s Hilmand Province and is preparing a new operation, in Kandahar. The U.S. says its new strategy in Afghanistan does not emphasize action against drug producers.

The upper house of the Russian parliament...

The upper house of the Russian parliament may propose amendments to the criminal law stipulating the death penalty for organizers of terrorist attacks resulting in multiple deaths, the chairman of the Federation Council"s Committee on Legal and Juridical Issues said.

Three days after the deadly twin bombings...

Three days after the deadly twin bombings in the Moscow metro, a total of 88 people remain in the city"s hospitals, an emergencies service source said on Thursday.

Three police officers were injured when...

Three police officers were injured when an explosive device detonated in Chechnya, a police source told RIA Novosti on Friday.

TV talent show sensation Susan Boyle"s debut...

TV talent show sensation Susan Boyle"s debut album has broken internet sales records in several countries, but her appeal has yet to reach the Russian capital, local retailers said.

Twin blasts rocked Russia"s North Caucasus...

Twin blasts rocked Russia"s North Caucasus region of Dagestan just two days after 39 people were killed in two subway explosions in Moscow, the region"s Interior Ministry said.

Two days before signing a milestone arms...

Two days before signing a milestone arms cuts pact with Russia, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled on Tuesday Washington"s new nuclear doctrine declaring potential terrorist attacks and proliferation of nuclear weapons, rather than an attack from a hostile state, the main security threat for the United States.