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A fire at a Moscow university dormitory...
A fire at a Moscow university dormitory has been put out, a police source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
A fire has broken out at the student halls...
A fire has broken out at the student halls of a Moscow university, and an evacuation is underway, a police source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
A "magical force" and disputed bindings...
A "magical force" and disputed bindings helped Simon Ammann of Switzerland to win his fourth Olympic title in Saturday"s ski jumping large hill competitions.
An earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter...
An earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale has hit Haiti, a hospital and other buildings collapsed, casualties have been reported.
A notorious gang leader in Russia"s North...
A notorious gang leader in Russia"s North Caucasus known as Alexander Tikhomirov or Said Buryatsky has been killed in a special operation, law enforcement sources said Thursday.
A Rammstein concert in Minsk, the capital...
A Rammstein concert in Minsk, the capital of ex-Soviet Belarus, will feature no displays of pornography, violence or Nazi symbols, the show"s organizer said on Tuesday.
A remembrance train carrying World War II...
A remembrance train carrying World War II veterans and young people will depart on Monday from Russia"s Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad and head to Russia"s Smolensk and Belarus"s Brest as part of WWII commemorations, the Kaliningrad region"s government spokesman has said.
A Russian frigate will start on Thursday...
A Russian frigate will start on Thursday a two-day visit to the port of Salalah in Oman to replenish water and food supplies for its current anti-piracy mission off the Somali coast, a Navy source said.
A team of Russian and German doctors has...
A team of Russian and German doctors has said that injured Russian bobsleigher Irina Skvortsova, currently in an induced coma, must remain in a German hospital for further treatment.
China"s Zhou Yang has won the gold in the...
China"s Zhou Yang has won the gold in the women"s 1500m short track race, setting a new olympic record on the ninth day of the Olympics in Vancouver.
CSKA Moscow will need to stay calm and collected...
CSKA Moscow will need to stay calm and collected when they face Inter Milan in Italy in a Champions League quarter final first-leg on Wednesday evening, the Russian club"s Japanese midfielder Keisuke Honda said.
Finland"s team defeated Germany 5-0 in men"s...
Finland"s team defeated Germany 5-0 in men"s preliminary round ice hockey game at the Vancouver Olympics on Friday.
Guus Hiddink will decide on his future with...
Guus Hiddink will decide on his future with the Russian national team after talks with the new president of Russian football"s governing body in February.
Guus Hiddink will meet with the new president...
Guus Hiddink will meet with the new president of Russian football"s governing body in the next few days, a top Russian Football Union (RFU) official said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Tehran will enrich its own uranium to a level of 20% for its research reactor.
KIEV, July 24 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine is...
KIEV, July 24 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine is celebrating 1,020 years since Christianity was adopted in Kievan Rus, with church services, processions, and other events to mark the event to continue for several days. The Orthodox Church leaders of Moscow and Constantinople, from which Prince Vladimir the Great took Christianity, joining Eastern Orthodoxy, are expected to visit the Ukrainian capital this week. The Christianization of Kiev dates from late 988, when Prince Vladimir the Great was baptized at Chersonesos, in the Crimea. He then baptized his family and people in Kiev and destroyed wooden statues of Slavic pagan gods. The baptism of Kiev was followed by similar ceremonies in other areas of ancient Rus, where people were often forced to accept the new religion "by fire and the sword." Speaking ahead of the anniversary, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said he hoped the event would encourage unity among the country"s Orthodox communities. "The head of state has expressed hope that a process of unification [among Orthodox churches] will be encouraged by the celebrations of the 1,020th anniversary of the Baptism of Kievan Rus," the presidential press service said on Thursday. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchy, is currently the only Ukrainian church with a canonical standing in Eastern Orthodoxy and has full communion with the other Eastern churches. According to official data, it is the largest religious body in the country, predominant in the east and south. Other Orthodox churches in the country include the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy, which broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1989, and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. The latter obtained autonomy from Moscow after the breakup of the Russian empire and the Bolshevik revolution. Kiev Patriarchy officials have recently stepped up contacts with the Church of Constantinople, also known as the Ecumenical Patriarchate, seeking "to return Ukraine to the Mother Church." The drive has been proactively backed by President Yushchenko and the country"s other top officials against the backdrop of ongoing tensions in relations with Russia. Russian church officials said on Thursday that the Moscow and Constantinople Patriarchates had agreed ahead of the holiday "to rule out" the participation of leaders of the "schismatic churches" in services and other events in Kiev to celebrate the anniversary. Patriarch Alexy II of Russia and Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople will meet in Kiev on Sunday. President Yushchenko and Bartholomew I will hold a reception in the sumptuous 11th century St. Sophia Cathedral on Saturday. The patriarch, along with Orthodox hierarchs from other countries, will hold a service near a statue to Holy Prince Vladimir the following day.
KURSK, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - Several...
KURSK, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - Several hundred people gathered in the Korennaya (Root) Hermitage in the Kursk Region in central Russia as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated a church.
Legendary Russian opera singer Irina Arkhipova...
Legendary Russian opera singer Irina Arkhipova has been hospitalized in Moscow with heart problems, a source at the Botkin Hospital said.
More than 3,000 people turned up in central...
More than 3,000 people turned up in central Moscow on Wednesday to remember the victims of the latest terrorist bomb attacks in the capital, a city police official said.
MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - Olympic...
MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - Olympic champion Elena Isinbayeva put her disappointing performance in the world championships behind her to set a new pole vault world record in Zurich, Russia"s Vesti-24 channel reported.
MOSCOW, July 29 (RIA Novosti) - Isa Yamadayev...
MOSCOW, July 29 (RIA Novosti) - Isa Yamadayev, whose two brothers were gunned down in Moscow and Dubai over a seven-month period, said on Wednesday that an attempt on his life had been made.
MOSCOW, June 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and...
MOSCOW, June 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Serbia have signed an intergovernmental agreement on the removal of spent nuclear fuel from a Serbian research reactor, the Russian civilian nuclear power corporation said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, June 1 (RIA Novosti) - Rubin"s 1-0...
MOSCOW, June 1 (RIA Novosti) - Rubin"s 1-0 defeat to CSKA Moscow in the final of the Russian Cup on Sunday was sweetened slightly for the Kazan side by the failure of their rivals to overtake them at the top of the Premier League.
MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Iran...
MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Iran will launch a low orbiting research satellite in cooperation with an Italian company in 2011, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - The...
MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - The Serbian government declared a three-day national mourning period starting Monday after the country"s Orthodox Church leader, Patriarch Pavle, died at 95 on Sunday.
MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti) - Serbia's...
MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti) - Serbia's Novak Djokovic cruised to a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Nikolai Davydenko of Russia in Shanghai on Sunday, to win the Masters Cup title.
MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - About...
MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - About 6,100 people have died from swine flu worldwide, with the total number of officially confirmed cases exceeding 482,000 in 199 countries, the World Health Organization has reported.
MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - A second...
MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - A second powerful quake, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale has been registered near the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website on Thursday.
MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) - China"s...
MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) - China"s transport ministry has issued a warning for the country"s ships to avoid the area of the Indian Ocean where a bulk carrier was hijacked two days ago.
MOSCOW, October 24 (RIA Novosti) - Spartak...
MOSCOW, October 24 (RIA Novosti) - Spartak Moscow visit Khimki on Saturday hoping to return to the place that was theirs almost by right in the late 1990s - the top of the Russian Premier League.
MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - CSKA...
MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - CSKA Moscow are set to bid for Liverpool striker Andriy Voronin, the Nash Vek website said on Friday.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator...
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - Russia and the United States have agreed to resume talks on a new strategic arms reduction treaty. A U.S. delegation led by National Security Advisor General James Jones and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, is expected in Moscow soon.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political analyst Dmitry...
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political analyst Dmitry Kosyrev) - A one-week hiatus has been the most incredible feature of the current Sino-American rift. Nothing was happening this week, except for a mounting wave of panicky publications in the media.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - Barack Obama finishes his first year as president on January 20. The results are not too bad, but not too brilliant, either.
MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti sports commentator...
MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti sports commentator Mikhail Smirnov) -- Formula 1 is coming to Moscow again, or rather, one of its teams is.
MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - The...
MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) plans to create a giant linear collider to hit positrons and electrons, the CERN general director said.
MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - The...
MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - The Arctic Sea is unable to call at the Spanish port of Las Palmas after Malta refused to take part in the handover of the ship, Russian investigators said on Thursday.
NASA"s Endeavour space shuttle will undock...
NASA"s Endeavour space shuttle will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on February 20 after a 9-day mission, NASA reported on Friday.
No matter what happens with Polish-Russian...
No matter what happens with Polish-Russian relations, Moscow will be concerned by the deployment of U.S. Patriot missiles near Kaliningrad, a senior member of Russian parliament said on Friday.
NOVO-OGARYOVO (Moscow Region), June 27 (RIA...
NOVO-OGARYOVO (Moscow Region), June 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has backed the participation of Royal Dutch-Shell in the Sakhalin III and IV projects.
One man was injured in a household gas explosion...
One man was injured in a household gas explosion early on Thursday in southern Moscow, a law enforcement source said.
Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and...
Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will face a close race in Ukraine"s runoff presidential election on Sunday as none of the candidates has secured an overwhelming support of the voters since the first round.
Portraits of the controversial Soviet dictator...
Portraits of the controversial Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin will be set up in Russia"s Far East city of Vladivostok during victory celebrations over Nazi Germany in WWII, a city council representative said.
Roman Abramovich"s National Football Academy...
Roman Abramovich"s National Football Academy will no longer pay Russian national team coach Guus Hiddink"s wages, a top Russian football official has said.
Russia and South Ossetia are expected to...
Russia and South Ossetia are expected to sign an agreement on a Russian military base in the former Georgian republic on Wednesday, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Russia and Ukraine"s national security services...
Russia and Ukraine"s national security services traded espionage accusations on Tuesday, just days before Ukrainians vote in presidential polls.
Russia believes current gas contracts with...
Russia believes current gas contracts with Ukraine are fair, but will start talks on the issue that could touch upon a gas price reduction for Kiev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
Russia expects to sign the last document...
Russia expects to sign the last document required to launch the South Stream gas pipeline construction by the end of April, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Thursday.
Russia halted from April 1 the imports of...
Russia halted from April 1 the imports of Ukrainian steel pipes duty free over the failure of the two ex-Soviet republics to agree on a quota for the second quarter of 2010, the Federal Customs Service reported on Thursday.
Russia has called for a rapid resumption...
Russia has called for a rapid resumption of six-party negotiations on the North Korean nuclear weapons program, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
Russia intends to keep up with the U.S...
Russia intends to keep up with the U.S. in the space race and launch a new manned spacecraft by 2017, a senior Russian space official said on Tuesday.
Russian ecologists organized a coalition...
Russian ecologists organized a coalition to stop Lake Baikal pollution by a pulp and paper mill which was reopened after being suspended for 16 months due to ecological concerns, a statement on the Greenpeace Russia website said.
Russian investigators denied on Friday media...
Russian investigators denied on Friday media reports that the people suspected of organizing the Moscow metro suicide attacks had been detained.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met on...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met on Monday with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych, who is on a private visit to Moscow, for the second time in five weeks.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday the results of presidential elections in Ukraine reflected a desire to improve ties with Russia.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alfyorov on his 80th birthday, the government press service said on Monday.
Russian security forces prevented over 80...
Russian security forces prevented over 80 terrorist attacks and neutralized more than 500 militants in 2009 in Russia"s volatile North Caucasus, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
Russian skier Alexander Legkov, who came...
Russian skier Alexander Legkov, who came in forth in the men"s 30km cross-country pursuit in Vancouver, has apologized for his failure to secure an Olympic medal.
Russian Vladimir Chagin (Kamaz) has won...
Russian Vladimir Chagin (Kamaz) has won the third special stage of the legendary off-road Dakar Rally in Buenos Aires.
Russia"s Firdaus Kabirov, piloting the legendary...
Russia"s Firdaus Kabirov, piloting the legendary Kamaz Team truck, has finished the ninth leg of the 2010 Dakar Rally in Chile in first place, some five minutes ahead of his countryman and teammate Vladimir Chagin.
Russia"s women curling team beat Sweden...
Russia"s women curling team beat Sweden 10-1 on the ninth day of the Olympics in Vancouver, handing the Swedes their first defeat after four wins in the round robin competition.
Russia will not protest against the results...
Russia will not protest against the results judges gave Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, the Russian sport minister said.
Sejm Marshal Bronislaw Komorowski has set...
Sejm Marshal Bronislaw Komorowski has set June 20 as the date for the early presidential election, which will determine the successor to President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash on April 10. Had he survived, Kaczynski would have faced reelection in the fall. The new president will most likely be Komorowski himself, who was nominated as the presidential candidate of the center-right Civil Platform party on March 28.
South Ossetia has not imposed additional...
South Ossetia has not imposed additional travel restrictions for local ethnic Georgians, a government official told RIA Novosti.
The car bomb that went off near a police...
The car bomb that went off near a police station in Russia"s volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan had a force equivalent to 100 kg of TNT, a police source said on Friday.
The death toll from a powerful earthquake...
The death toll from a powerful earthquake which struck Chile earlier on Saturday has risen to 78, the local TV channel 24 said.
The Google affair was expected to be resolved...
The Google affair was expected to be resolved in China this week. But there is no resolution in sight and still nothing is clear, although a great many interesting facts have come to light and a great many important statements have been made.
The head of Russian energy giant Gazprom...
The head of Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that Russia expects no problems with Ukraine"s payment for Russian natural gas in December.
The National Portrait Gallery will be housed...
The National Portrait Gallery will be housed in the former Lenin Museum, Russian Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev said during a meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The number of people killed in the Bishkek...
The number of people killed in the Bishkek clashes has increased to at least 40, while some 400 are injured, the Kyrgyz health ministry said on Wednesday.
The official logo for the Sochi 2014 Winter...
The official logo for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games was presented in Moscow on Tuesday.
The results of the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony...
The results of the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony showed that patriotic cinema is more valued in the U.S. today than innovative cinema, even innovative cinema that is much more successful at the box office.
The U.S. ambassador to Russia on Thursday...
The U.S. ambassador to Russia on Thursday handed to Russian officials a medallion belonging to Russia"s last emperor stolen from Russia"s largest museum in 2006.
The U.S. media suspects China and India...
The U.S. media suspects China and India of developing anti-satellite weapons. An article to this effect has been published the New Scientist magazine.
Three people were killed and six injured...
Three people were killed and six injured when a butane gas tank exploded in a cafe in west Siberia on Tuesday.
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 people died in fire after a household...
Two people died in fire after a household gas explosion in the southeast of the Russian capital, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry"s Moscow division said Saturday.
Two Russian experts who planned to hold...
Two Russian experts who planned to hold a meeting with their Georgian colleagues on December 1-3 were refused entrance into the country at Tbilisi International Airport, national media reported.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said on Friday the controversy over his predecessor"s naming a onetime Nazi collaborator a national hero would be settled before this year"s Victory Day.
U.S. Congress has passed Barack Obama"s...
U.S. Congress has passed Barack Obama"s healthcare reform bill that will give Americans more control over their health care by holding insurance companies more accountable. It seems now is the time for big foreign policy moves.
WASHINGTON, January 17 (RIA Novosti) - The...
WASHINGTON, January 17 (RIA Novosti) - The United States federal criminal investigative intelligence agency has declined to comment on whether it provided Russian authorities with information on a possible terrorist plot to attack public transport.
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, April 8 (RIA Novosti)...
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, April 8 (RIA Novosti) - The operators of the Sakhalin I and II oil and gas projects off Russia's Pacific Coast produced 3.75 million metric tons (27.5 million barrels) of oil in the first quarter, the regional administration said on Wednesday.
Zenit St. Petersburg"s Portuguese midfielder...
Zenit St. Petersburg"s Portuguese midfielder Danny struck in the 66th minute to give the 2007 champions three points in their opening game of the season against Krilya Sovetov in Samara on Saturday.