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A former Soviet hockey star and respected...

A former Soviet hockey star and respected sports expert said the Russian national squad has a better chance than the Canadians to win the 2010 Olympics ice hockey tournament.

A leader of Wahhabi militants in Russia"s...

A leader of Wahhabi militants in Russia"s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria has been killed in a special operation, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Thursday.

A Russian naval task force led by the Admiral...

A Russian naval task force led by the Admiral Chabanenko destroyer will resume an anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa later this month, the Navy said on Thursday.

A Russian Orthodox priest who carried out...

A Russian Orthodox priest who carried out missionary work among immigrants from ex-Soviet republics received over a dozen death threats before his murder on Thursday, a Russian paper said.

At least one of the two bombs which killed...

At least one of the two bombs which killed over 30 people in the central Moscow metro system on Monday morning was carried out by a female suicide bomber using plastic explosives, Russia"s top investigator said.

Belarus will pay around $168 per 1,000 cubic...

Belarus will pay around $168 per 1,000 cubic meters of Russian natural gas in the first quarter of 2010, 11% more than the average price of $150 for 2009, the Gazprom CEO said on Wednesday.

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China"s Wang Meng has won the Olympic gold...

China"s Wang Meng has won the Olympic gold medal in the women"s 500 meters short-track speed skating event at Vancouver Games.

CSKA Moscow defenders Sergei Ignashevich...

CSKA Moscow defenders Sergei Ignashevich and Alexei Berezutsky have been suspended by UEFA over a doping offense, European football"s governing body confirmed on Tuesday.

Czech speed skater Martina Sablikova won...

Czech speed skater Martina Sablikova won gold in ladies" 5,000 m at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Canada"s Vancouver.

Diniyar Bilyaletdinov unleashed a thunderous...

Diniyar Bilyaletdinov unleashed a thunderous shot from outside the penalty area as Everton defeated Premier League champions Manchester United 3-1 at Goodison Park on Saturday.

Doping-related cases among Russian athletes...

Doping-related cases among Russian athletes are still a possibility at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, though their preliminary tests proved negative in Moscow, a senior sports doctor said.

Each participant in the 46th annual International...

Each participant in the 46th annual International Munich Security Conference has its own version of what took place over the weekend there.

Five people died in Russia"s northern city...

Five people died in Russia"s northern city of Murmansk when a fire broke out in an apartment block, a local police source said on Thursday.

Gazprom signed a contract on Monday to increase...

Gazprom signed a contract on Monday to increase natural gas purchases from Uzbekistan by 4.25 billion to 15.5 billion cubic meters in 2010, the Russian state-controlled energy giant said.

Georgia"s privately owned Imedi television...

Georgia"s privately owned Imedi television station caused a nationwide panic with its mock news report.

Here is the problem: U.S. military programs...

Here is the problem: U.S. military programs are often over budget and behind schedule.

Hundreds of people came on Sunday to a southern...

Hundreds of people came on Sunday to a southern Moscow church to pay their last respects to a well-known Russian Orthodox priest who was recently murdered.

Injury-stricken ice-hockey club CSKA Moscow...

Injury-stricken ice-hockey club CSKA Moscow have signed legendary player, and current club president, Vyacheslav Fetisov, a spokesperson said on Thursday.

Iran has again shocked the world by sanctioning...

Iran has again shocked the world by sanctioning the construction of ten more uranium enrichment plants, five of them immediately.

Irina Skvortsova, the Russian bobsledder...

Irina Skvortsova, the Russian bobsledder seriously injured during a training incident in Germany, was transported from a Munich hospital to a rehabilitation center on Koenigssee Lake, Sovetsky Sport newspaper said.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has expressed his deep satisfaction over the signing of a new Russian-U.S. arms reduction treaty, the Italian government has said.

Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who...

Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who fled the capital Bishkek amid violent opposition protests, will soon address the nation, the Kyrgyz ambassador to Russia said Thursday.

L"AQUILA (Italy), July 9 (RIA Novosti) -...

L"AQUILA (Italy), July 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday that parliament"s decision on Kuril Islands did not foster an atmosphere of trust, a presidential aide said.

Liverpool responded quickly on Wednesday...

Liverpool responded quickly on Wednesday to reports that attacking midfielder Yossi Benayoun was set to sign for Dynamo Moscow.

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

MOSCOW, April 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s state-controlled VTB bank is to acquire 74% of Dynamo Moscow football club and 75% minus one share in the Dynamo management company in charge of rebuilding the club"s Petrovsky Park stadium. A memorandum of understanding was signed on Friday as part of a deal to convert Dynamo and the Dynamo management company"s debts into shares. VTB CEO Andrei Kostin said after the signing of the memorandum that the deal would be finalized by the end of the year. The bank, Russia"s second largest, recently pulled out of a sponsorship deal with 2005 UEFA Cup champions CSKA Moscow, citing the global economic crisis. The reconstruction of the Dynamo stadium is estimated at 45 billion rubles ($1.3 bln), Kostin said, adding that the project should be completed within 5-7 years. Dynamo, one of three Russian teams due to take part in the 2009/2010 Champions League, currently share a stadium with Moscow Region side Khimki. Dynamo Moscow"s Petrovsky Park was built in the 1920s, and is the world"s only constructivist-designed stadium. In 1941, it was used as a training centre for Soviet troops preparing to defend Moscow from Nazi attack. The ground was also the subject of an untitled poem written by Soviet poet Lev Oshanin that was later used as a basis for the popular 1960s "Football Song" and included the lines, "The whole of Moscow rides stubbornly to Dynamo, forgetting about the rain." Kostin also said there was a preliminary agreement existed under which the stadium would be renamed the Yashin-VTB Arena once the reconstruction of the ground was completed. The club has promised to maintain the historic elements of the ground, including the facade. Lev Yashin (1929-1990) is the only goalkeeper ever to have won the European Player of the Year Award. He spent his whole career, from 1949 to 1971, at Dynamo. The keeper, who wore all black when defending his goal, won world fame with his breathtaking performances in the 1966 World Cup in England, as the Soviet Union reached the semifinals.

MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Air traffic...

MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Air traffic in north and central Europe will not run for at least the next 24 hours because of the ash cloud from a volcano eruption in Iceland, Reuters quoted the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, Eurocontrol, as saying.

MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) - An official...

MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) - An official farewell ceremony for a strategic nuclear submarine from the Russian Northern Fleet was held on Friday at the Zvezdochka shipyard in northern Russia.

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

MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - The crew of the Arctic Sea cargo ship, which had been missing in the Atlantic for more than two weeks before it was found by a Russian warship, arrived in Moscow on Thursday, Vesti TV reported.

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

MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian international Roman Pavlyuchenko is ready to quit Tottenham Hotspur to keep his international career alive, the forward has told Sport Express.

MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti) - An Indonesian...

MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti) - An Indonesian citizen who died in a car crash near Moscow was the son of a staff member of the Indonesian embassy, an embassy official told RIA Novosti.

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - The operator...

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - The operator of the Gazprom-led Shtokman gas condensate project in the Russian section of the Barents Sea asked on Tuesday for tax exemptions as a precondition for investing in the development of shelf deposits.

MOSCOW, June 11 (RIA Novosti) - Italian...

MOSCOW, June 11 (RIA Novosti) - Italian police confiscated 300 kilograms (661 pounds) of high-grade cocaine on Thursday, on a sailboat docked off Sardinia.

MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has...

MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has not yet decided whether to allocate Ukraine a $5 billion loan to help its economy overcome the global recession, a deputy Russian finance minister said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - A total of...

MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 131 Russian servicemen have died in non-combat-related incidents since the start of 2009, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.

MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova climbed up 10 spots in the Women Tennis Association"s rankings to 15th place on Monday.

Moscow police have stopped an unemployed...

Moscow police have stopped an unemployed Dagestani construction worker who attempted to enter the Kremlin to talk to President Dmitry Medvedev about marrying into his family, according to a Russian tabloid.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Goncharov) - It will take more than two or three years to fight drug trafficking from Afghanistan, according to a joint report of the World Bank and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime published recently.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - Like every other Afghanistan conference, the sixth conference in London on January 28 did not discuss the country"s opium problem.

MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Tottenham...

MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Tottenham Hotspur turned down two offers from Spartak Moscow for striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, the Russian club"s manager has revealed.

MOSCOW. (Tatiana Sinitsyna, RIA Novosti...

MOSCOW. (Tatiana Sinitsyna, RIA Novosti commentator) - The 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali got underway Monday, December 3.

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

MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA Novosti) - Global climate change defies forecasting. Unprecedented heat, floods, droughts and typhoons brought about by climate change cause tremendous damage.

MOSCOW. (Vlad Grinkevich, RIA Novosti economic...

MOSCOW. (Vlad Grinkevich, RIA Novosti economic commentator) - Last weekend marked 90 years since the notorious Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed banning the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcohol for consumption.

No one has applied to become the president...

No one has applied to become the president of the Russian Olympic Committee, with potential applicants wary of unrealistic pressure to succeed, a top official said on Wednesday.

Norwegian biathlete Tora Berger won gold...

Norwegian biathlete Tora Berger won gold in the women"s individual 15 km race at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, with Kazakhstan and Belarus getting their first medals of the Games.

Olympic attention moved from Canada to the...

Olympic attention moved from Canada to the former Soviet republic of Georgia as luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was buried in his hometown of Bakuriani.

President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday appointed...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday appointed the governor of the vast Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk and former business executive as deputy prime minister and his envoy to the volatile North Caucasus region.

President Dmitry Medvedev urged the authorities...

President Dmitry Medvedev urged the authorities of the Russian republic of Karachai-Circassia to fight gangs toughly but calmly.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin"s speech was...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin"s speech was broadcast live by Polish television, radio and the Internet news sites. A translation into Polish appeared on the Internet soon after.

Roman Pavlyuchenko still wants to leave...

Roman Pavlyuchenko still wants to leave Tottenham Hotspur, despite earning the reserved praise of manager Harry Redknapp for his goal against Leeds United in the FA Cup.

Russia has made significant contributions...

Russia has made significant contributions to the international particle collider project and hopes it will boost the prestige of Russian scientists worldwide, a Russian physicist said on Tuesday.

Russia hopes the February 7 Ukrainian presidential...

Russia hopes the February 7 Ukrainian presidential runoff will go ahead without incidents of a destabilizing nature, a Foreign Ministry source said on Friday

Russia is preparing to send two planes carrying...

Russia is preparing to send two planes carrying doctors, supplies and equipment, including a mobile air hospital, to earthquake-stricken Chile, a Russian emergencies official said on Friday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed on Tuesday gratitude to Malta for its cooperation in resolving the case of the Arctic Sea ship, which went missing in the Atlantic this summer.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged Moldovan authorities on Wednesday not to use Victory Day for political speculation.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday congratulated Peoples" Friendship University, an institution created in 1960 to prepare qualified specialists from Asia and Africa, and Latin America with the 50th anniversary.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to Ukraine on April 26.

Russia"s Evgeni Plushenko won the Olympic...

Russia"s Evgeni Plushenko won the Olympic silver medal in Vancouver in the men"s free skating competition, beat out by the U.S."s Evan Lysacek who took the gold medal.

Russia should give Kyrgyzstan more than...

Russia should give Kyrgyzstan more than $150 million aid, a first deputy prime minister in the interim government said on Monday following talks in Moscow.

Russia"s new short-range gun and missile...

Russia"s new short-range gun and missile air defense systems will take part in a Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow on May 9, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.

Russia"s Nikita Kriukov and Alexander Panzhinskiy...

Russia"s Nikita Kriukov and Alexander Panzhinskiy won gold and silver respectively putting an end to Russia"s medal draught on the sixth day of the Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Russia"s women curling team was defeated...

Russia"s women curling team was defeated by Switzerland 5-8 on the eighth day of Vancouver Games on Friday.

Russia"s Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov...

Russia"s Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov are third after the short program in figure skating, with 74.16 points.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was born in America...

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was born in America on February 5, 1840, emigrated to Britain 1881 and adopted British citizenship in 1899. Over his long career, Maxim is credited with over a thousand different inventions and received patents for 270 of them. He also designed a steam-fuelled aircraft, was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and claimed to have invented the light bulb.

Six people were killed when a bus crashed...

Six people were killed when a bus crashed into truck in Russia"s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan early on Thursday, regional emergencies officials said.

Slovakian athletes took gold medals in men"s...

Slovakian athletes took gold medals in men"s and women"s visually impaired Alpine Skiing Gi, March 17ant Slalom at 2010 Paralympics in Canada.

South Korean skater Lee Jung-su won his...

South Korean skater Lee Jung-su won his second Vacouver gold in the men"s 1,000m event on the ninth day of the Games, and his compatriot Lee Ho-suk took the silver.

Surprise leaders Spartak Nalchik stayed...

Surprise leaders Spartak Nalchik stayed top of the Russian Premier League on goal difference after beating Dynamo Moscow 1-0 at home.

Tennis superstar Maria Sharapova has retained...

Tennis superstar Maria Sharapova has retained the status of Russia"s richest athlete with an income of $24 million in 2009, the Finans business magazine said.

The current global financial and economic...

The current global financial and economic crisis once again confirms the fact that during economic upheavals the rich get richer and the poor become even more destitute.

The event under discussion did not merely...

The event under discussion did not merely concern money and global finances. It had something to do with the world order"s "load-bearing" structures. Although this turns out to be a mistake, it has scared many people.

The new agreement practically nullifies...

The new agreement practically nullifies Ukraine"s ability to conduct an independent foreign policy. And only the most naive observers would anticipate that the deal clarifies the future of Russian-Ukrainian relations.

The new president of Russian football"s...

The new president of Russian football"s governing body will be elected in Moscow on Wednesday in a vote that will decide the future of national team coach Guus Hiddink.

The party of former Ukrainian premier Yulia...

The party of former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko may be forced to attack its opponents during a debate on the ratification of a deal to extend the lease of a Russian naval base, a lawmaker said on Monday.

The rapid downfall of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek...

The rapid downfall of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev came as a surprise for political analysts. Only four days previously he met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in Bishkek. Not a single analytical centre in Russia or the West predicted such a rapid turn of events.