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A delegation from Kyrgyzstan led by interim...

A delegation from Kyrgyzstan led by interim First Deputy Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev departed for Moscow Friday morning to hold talks with Russian officials, the provisional government press service said.

An unusual space body with parameters similar...

An unusual space body with parameters similar to a man-made object will approach Earth on Wednesday at a distance about three times less than the moon"s orbit.

Around one and a half million people are...

Around one and a half million people are addicted to heroin in Russia, a Health Ministry top specialist told RIA Novosti.

A Russian warship will escort 12 commercial...

A Russian warship will escort 12 commercial vessels through the Somali pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.

A South Korean Foreign Ministry official...

A South Korean Foreign Ministry official said on Monday North Korea"s call for peace treaty talks as a condition to restart nuclear disarmament negotiations was unwelcome.

A stolen Nazi sign, which translates as...

A stolen Nazi sign, which translates as "Work makes you free," has been returned to the museum of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near Poland"s Krakow.

Christoph Waltz won Oscar in the Actor in...

Christoph Waltz won Oscar in the Actor in a Supporting role category for his role in Inglourious Basterds and Mo"Nique won the golden statuette for the Actress in Supporting Role in Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire.

CSKA Moscow drew 1-1 with U.S. side Red...

CSKA Moscow drew 1-1 with U.S. side Red Bull at Spain"s Campoamour Resort as they prepare for the start of the new Russian season and a Champions League clash with Sevilla.

CSKA Moscow have been drawn against Italian...

CSKA Moscow have been drawn against Italian champions Inter Milan in the quarter finals of the Champions League.

Evgeni Plushenko is in good shape to win...

Evgeni Plushenko is in good shape to win the Olympic gold and is ready to face pressure on the ice and beyond in Vancouver, the coach training the legendary Russian figure skater said on Thursday.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter is scheduled...

FIFA President Sepp Blatter is scheduled to discuss Russia"s chances of hosting the 2018 or 2022 World Cups on Friday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday.

Five were killed and six injured in double...

Five were killed and six injured in double blasts in the town of Kizlyar in Russia"s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Wednesday morning, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti.

Foreign states have described the blasts...

Foreign states have described the blasts on Monday morning in Moscow"s subway, which killed over 30 people, as "cowardly attacks" and expressed their condolences to victims in messages of compassion and support for Russia.

French Greenpeace activists blocked a train...

French Greenpeace activists blocked a train carrying some 650 metric tons of radioactive waste in protest against the export of nuclear waste to Russia, the Greenpeace Russia website said.

International investigators will arrive...

International investigators will arrive in Georgia in early February to investigate the start of the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia, a Russian daily said on Friday.

Leading Russian business daily Vedomosti...

Leading Russian business daily Vedomosti has filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the speaker of the Russian parliament"s lower house, the newspaper said in a statement on Tuesday.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky"s daughter Anastasia...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky"s daughter Anastasia and lawyer Yelena Lukyanova have received a literary prize, awarded to the jailed Yukos founder for his correspondence with a Russian Booker Prize winning author.

MOSCOW, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - The Paris-based...

MOSCOW, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - The Paris-based international organization Reporters Without Borders strongly criticized on Wednesday the death of a journalist and the beating of a prominent human rights activist in Moscow. Sergei Protazanov, a reporter for the Grazhdanskoye Soglasie newspaper, based in the north Moscow suburb of Khimki, died in hospital on Monday, two days after he was beaten near his home. Police on Wednesday denied the reports of an attack on the journalist, saying his death occurred because of intoxication. They said Protazanov was found drunk near his home and hospitalized but released on Sunday. A medical expert said he died as a result of poisoning by an unknown substance. Lev Ponomaryov, leader of the For Human Rights movement and a member of the newly formed Solidarity opposition party, was attacked outside his east Moscow home on Tuesday. "Ponomaryov, executive director of Russia"s For Human Rights movement, was cruelly beaten by three unknown people at about 11:00 p.m. Moscow time [19:00 GMT]," the official"s colleagues said. Reporters Without Borders said on its website: "There seems to be no end to the appalling series of attacks on journalists, especially local journalists, and human rights activists. The authorities need to actively intervene instead of just issuing statements." "Journalists and human rights activists must not only enjoy the same right to safety as other citizens but should receive special protection because of the particularly useful nature of their contribution to Russian society," the organization said. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has been one of the most dangerous countries for reporters. The most high-profile slaying was the 2006 death of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. In January, Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova was shot dead alongside lawyer Stanislav Markelov in downtown Moscow. Mikhail Beketov, editor-in-chief of the Khimki Pravda local newspaper, who fought a campaign to protect a forest near Moscow from destruction by developers, spent several weeks in coma after being badly beaten near his home in November.

MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s probe into the hijacking of the Arctic Sea cargo vessel is likely to involve the law enforcement agencies of other countries, Russia"s Prosecutor General"s Office said on Friday.

MOSCOW, August 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, August 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian forward Andrei Arshavin said his Arsenal team were in a different class to Celtic as they strolled into the UEFA Champions League group stages with a 5-1 aggregate win.

MOSCOW, February 23 (RIA Novosti) –...

MOSCOW, February 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russian international Yury Zhirkov will miss Chelsea’s Champions League match against Inter Milan on Wednesday after picking up an injury during the club’s 2-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers at the weekend.

Moscow hopes Kiev will change its attitude...

Moscow hopes Kiev will change its attitude to Russia once a new president is elected, with ideology becoming less of a factor, Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - FC Moskva"s...

MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - FC Moskva"s Belarusian keeper Yury Zhevnov is not convinced that the club, currently in second place in the Russian Premier League, can lift the title.

MOSCOW, June 4 (RIA Novosti) - The number...

MOSCOW, June 4 (RIA Novosti) - The number of operational satellites in Russia"s Glonass grouping has been increased to 17 while three more remain inactive, Russia"s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday.

MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St...

MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St. Petersburg trainer Dick Advocaat has said he will not sign a contract to coach the Belgian national side until the Russian season ends in November, a Russian daily reported on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Nikolai Davydenko and Dinara Safina both won their third round matches at the French Open on Friday. Tenth seed Davydenko, who is the only Russian male player left in the tournament, dispatched Stanislas Wawrinka (17) from Switzerland in four sets 6:3, 4:6, 6:3, 6:2 to set up a fourth round head-to-head with eighth seed Fernando Verdasco from Spain. On form world no 1 Dinara Safina overawed fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, seeded 27, to win in straight sets 6:2, 6:0 and will now face Aravane Rezai from France. Also due to play later are former world no one Maria Sharapova, who recently returned to tennis after 10 months out with a shoulder injury, fourth seed Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova (7). Sharapova will take on another unseeded player, Yaroslava Shvedova from Kazakhstan, while Dementieva faces Australian Samantha Stosur (30) and Kuznetsova has a showdown lined up with Hungary"s Melinda Czin.

MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti) - The number...

MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti) - The number of registered subscribers to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev"s video blog on the Kremlin website has passed the 20,000 mark, site moderators said Monday. Over 5,000 visitors have left comments at www.blog.kremlin.ru, with a total of 14,500 comments published since January 12, when subscribers first had the opportunity to leave their comments on the president"s video posts. In late April, Medvedev also posted his first video blog on the LiveJournal.com website in the form of a social networking community at http://community.livejournal.com/blog_medvedev/, which runs in tandem with his web blog on the Kremlin site. Comments by Internet users are moderated and are not published if they are found to contain abusive or discriminatory language.

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - The navies of two Koreas clashed Tuesday in the Yellow Sea along the disputed sea border between the two states, with the North suffering "considerable" damage, the Yonhap news agency reported.

MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Inspections...

MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Inspections of the Arctic Sea ship, which was held captive for several weeks during the summer, have not revealed suspicious cargo, and the vessel will soon be released, Russia"s Foreign Ministry has said.

Moscow police are sparing no effort to track...

Moscow police are sparing no effort to track down the people who shot dead an officer and critically injured another early on Saturday, a police spokesperson told RIA Novosti.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Sergei...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Sergei Varshavchik) -What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words "genius of the cinema"? For most people the inevitable response is "Federico Fellini."

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) - On February 6, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met in the Kremlin with a European Commission delegation headed by chairman Jose Manuel Barroso.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - On February 10 fifteen years ago, the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) met in Almaty, then capital of Kazakhstan (Central Asia), to sign an agreement to create a joint air defense system. In February 2010, they held a jubilee meeting of the Committee on Air Defense at the CIS Council of Defense Ministers.

MOSCOW. ( RIA Novosti political commentator...

MOSCOW. ( RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Goncharov) - For the umpteenth time now, Afghanistan is breaking all records in opium production, and is ready to flood Europe with first-grade heroine.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - As luck would have it, a great many top Russian officials come from St. Petersburg, which means that they can persuade the federal government and local authorities to tackle the problems of the Baltic, Europe"s most polluted inland sea.

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva says she has plans to retire from top-flight sport until after the 2013 world athletic championships in Moscow.

MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russian prosecutors have opened a probe into the suspected embezzlement of millions of dollars during the reconstruction of Moscow"s famed Bolshoi Theater.

MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti) - The Council of Europe"s commissioner for human rights, who arrived with an official visit to Russia last week, is heading on Monday to Russia"s North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Nearly a month after a deadly blaze at a...

Nearly a month after a deadly blaze at a night club in Russia"s Urals city of Perm, the death toll is continuing to rise.

Newly crowned Russian champions Rubin Kazan...

Newly crowned Russian champions Rubin Kazan will seek revenge when they host Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday evening in the Champions League, and could even seal their spot in the last 16.

NEW YORK, October 13 (RIA Novosti) - The...

NEW YORK, October 13 (RIA Novosti) - The director of Moscow"s largest museum of European fine arts has been awarded the international Liberty Prize for advancing Russian-U.S. cultural ties.

On April 8, 2010, Presidents Barack Obama...

On April 8, 2010, Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev signed the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.

Poland on Sunday said goodbye to President...

Poland on Sunday said goodbye to President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Mary, who died last week in a plane crash near Smolensk in western Russia.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski will decide...

Polish President Lech Kaczynski will decide next week on whether he will take part in Victory Day celebrations in Moscow in May, his spokesman said.

Politicians, scientists and diplomats from...

Politicians, scientists and diplomats from Russia, Poland, Finland and Estonia will discuss European and national security issues during a two-day conference, which will open in the Russian city of Veliky Novgorod on Thursday, a spokesman for the local Mayor"s Office has said.

President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday named...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday named ex-governor of Siberian Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Khloponin as deputy prime minister and his personal envoy to the North Caucasus, giving him sweeping powers in the troubled region.

President Viktor Yushchenko renewed on Wednesday...

President Viktor Yushchenko renewed on Wednesday his appeal for a "drastic review" of a 10-year natural gas contract with Russia, which ended the ex-Soviet states" latest pricing and debt row.

Rubin Kazan won their second successive...

Rubin Kazan won their second successive Russian Premier League title on Saturday as they drew 0:0 at home with Zenit St. Petersburg, while second-placed Spartak Moscow lost 3:2 to cross-town rivals CSKA Moscow.

Russia is ready to restart regular air services...

Russia is ready to restart regular air services with Georgia, halted over the August 2008 military conflict between the two ex-Soviet republics, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Russian...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Russian medalists of the 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Games in the Moscow Kremlin on Friday to personally award them state prizes and decorations.

Russian servicemen will participate in the...

Russian servicemen will participate in the May 9 Victory Day parade in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, a top Russian military official said on Monday.

Russia"s Alexander Zubkov and Alexei Voevoda...

Russia"s Alexander Zubkov and Alexei Voevoda won bronze medals in Bobsleigh two-man at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Canada"s Vancouver.

Russia"s athletes won three bronze medals...

Russia"s athletes won three bronze medals on the 11th day of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, in ice dance and the ladies" and men"s freestyle cross country skiing relays.

Russia"s new Topol M missile system will...

Russia"s new Topol M missile system will for the first time be shown at the Victory Day parade on May 9 on Moscow"s Red Square, a spokesman for the Strategic Missile Forces said.

Russia will begin and end their attempt...

Russia will begin and end their attempt to make the final stages of Euro 2012 with matches against minnows Andorra.

Russia will finalize in August 2010 the...

Russia will finalize in August 2010 the design of a new booster rocket for a manned spacecraft it is planning to launch in 2017, a design bureau chief said on Tuesday.

Russia will launch two international satellites...

Russia will launch two international satellites as well as a freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) next month from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Federal Space Agency said Monday.

Somali pirates have released a Greek cargo...

Somali pirates have released a Greek cargo ship captured two months ago after receiving a ransom, the EU"s naval force announced on Sunday.

Somali pirates have taken the U.K.-flagged...

Somali pirates have taken the U.K.-flagged Asian Glory vehicle carrier with 25 crew members, including 10 Ukrainians, to a port in Somalia, the European Union Naval Force Somalia said on its website on Tuesday.

South Korea"s Jung-Su Lee set a new Olympic...

South Korea"s Jung-Su Lee set a new Olympic record in men"s 1,500 m Short Track and qualified for the semifinals of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Talks on an international climate deal to...

Talks on an international climate deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which failed in December, will resume after New Year holidays, Russia"s WWF chief said on Monday.

The 2010 Global Energy Prize has been awarded...

The 2010 Global Energy Prize has been awarded to a Russian and a Ukrainian scientist, the vice president of the Russian Academy of Scientists said on Tuesday.

The death toll in the powerful earthquake...

The death toll in the powerful earthquake that hit Chile has risen to 122, 24 Horas local TV channel reported, citing Chilean President-elect Sebastian Pinera on Saturday.

The death toll of two explosions in Russia"s...

The death toll of two explosions in Russia"s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan has risen to 11, a Russian law enforcement said.

The first meeting of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral...

The first meeting of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission’s Civil Society Working Group was held in Washington on January 27. The group is part of a larger effort begun last summer by U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to reset relations between the two countries and explore new opportunities for partnership. The two co-chairs of the group are Michael McFaul, special assistant to Obama and senior director for Russian affairs at the National Security Council, and Vladislav Surkov, first deputy chairman of the Russian presidential administration.