Russian investigators have detained a suspect in the attempted murder of Isa Yamadayev, whose two brothers were gunned down in Moscow and Dubai over a seven-month period, an investigative committee spokesman said.
Global media outlets are increasingly coming under threat from pirate news sites that use original news content without permission, a panel of Russian and U.S. analysts and media representatives said on Friday.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged people to curb their appetite for consumption, saying that a failure to do so kills the joy in people and has the capacity to ruin the world.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday expressed his support for a proposal to teach religious education in Russian state schools.
The first batch of vaccine against the A/H1N1 swine flu will be ready by October 1, a prominent Russian researcher said on Monday.
Police killed five suspected militants in a shootout in southern Dagestan, the Russian republic`s Interior Ministry official said on Tuesday.
Russia said on Wednesday that United Nations experts could not carry out their own investigation into the murder of Chechen rights activist Natalya Estemirova, but could give evidence to Russian police.
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As from Tuesday, Russian law enforcement agencies have the right to inspect all private letters, parcels and other personal postal deliveries.
UN rights experts have offered Russia help in conducting an investigation into the murder of Memorial activist Natalya Estemirova, the UN press service said on Tuesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday expressed his support for a proposal to teach religious education in Russian state schools.
Police in Russia`s Far East have arrested two drug couriers in possession of 10.6 kilograms (23 lbs) of heroin, a spokesman for the Primorye Territory`s drug control service said on Tuesday.
Noise from a local building site is being blamed for the death of around 270,000 American frogs at a nearby farm in south China, the China Daily reported on Tuesday.
Russian and foreign volunteers said on Tuesday they felt well after a 105-day experiment to simulate a flight to Mars at the Institute of Medical and Biological Studies in Moscow.
Tinned meat for 15 rubles, litre juice - for 10 rubles and other foodstuff now can be bought at a fire-sale price meat in the Russian markets. Crowds of people queue in order to buy these products from morning. Buyers of the goods with almost or already expired period of storage.
Three new swine flu cases have been confirmed in Russia, bringing the total number to seven, Russia`s chief sanitary official Gennady Onishchenko said on Friday.
Submersibles involved in research in Siberia`s Lake Baikal have brought to the surface some 5 kilograms (11 lbs) of gas hydrates, a expedition participant told RIA Novosti on Friday.
The Endeavour space shuttle has been launched to the International Space Station after a month`s delay, carrying seven astronauts.
Moscow authorities have offered alternative employment to gambling industry employees who were made jobless after a new law came into force on July 1, a labor official told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
Nokia will unveil its first smartphone on the base of Google Android in September of the current year, Lenta.ru website reports with reference to The Guardian. Nokia’s first Google Android-based device is to be announced at Nokia World conference. The technical details of the new phone are not known yet.
Russia’s Cherkizovsky Market - the best-known and the largest market in the whole country - has been receiving a lot of media attention recently. The market, which enjoys the reputation of a city within the city (Google Maps pic), was closed not so long ago for sanitary reasons, as officials said. Most likely, the market was closed after Putin’s remarks about the need to struggle against smuggled goods in the country.
A group of armed robbers entered a jewelry store in southwest Moscow on Sunday, and stole cash and jewels worth over 4 million rubles ($120,000), police said.
Russia`s Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine, which was damaged in a fatal accident during previous tests, resumed sea trials on Friday in the Sea of Japan, a spokesperson for the Amur shipyard said.
Thousands of Russians can declare themselves bankrupts in the near future. The citizens who have run into debt to banks decent sums, can get clear of debts legally if law on bankruptcy of physical persons is introduced in the country. The institute of personal bankruptcy is to begin work already in the end of this year.
The Russian Prosecutor General`s Office said Tuesday it had agreed on closer cooperation with the U.S. Justice Department on a probe into the 2004 murder of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov.