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.
U.S. President Barack Obama met with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday during his visit to Moscow, the head of the Gorbachev Foundation press service said.
The Russian machine-building holding company, Concern Tractor Plants (CTP), expects to hold talks before the end of 2009 on tractor production in Nigeria, a senior company executive said on Monday.
The Russian machine-building holding company, Concern Tractor Plants (CTP), expects to hold talks before the end of 2009 on tractor production in Nigeria, a senior company executive said on Monday.
Prominent Russian novelist Vasily Aksyonov died in Moscow on Monday at the age of 76, his doctor said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin effectively work together, U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday.
From June, 20th till June, 28th five concerts of Alla Pugachyova have taken place in the USA. They have passed in Atlantic City in the casino Tazh-Mahal, in Boston, in Chicago, San Francisco and in Los-Angeles.
Russia is setting up a permanent investigation mission in the Gulf of Aden to participate in international efforts to fight piracy at sea off Somalia, the chief investigator said on Friday.
Only 5% of Russians polled in a recent survey believe U.S.-Russian relations are friendly, a pollster said on Friday.
Wages reduction and uncertainty of the near future forces people to plan their rest more economically. Summer of 2009 most Russians-holiday-makers will spend at home if tour operators and hotel owners will not offer their "anti-recessionary" programs.
St. Petersburg politicians want to take legal action against pop star Madonna after she swore in a taped promo message for her upcoming concert, a government newspaper reported Friday.
A new law passed by Japan`s parliament calling the south Kuril islands a part of Japan is merely a propaganda move, as Russia has no plans to hand the islands over, a Russian expert on the issue said on Friday.
Russia and the U.S. will both benefit from a new strategic arms reduction agreement, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Friday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday made fun of an interpreter who apparently added a few points to his speech during a medical conference.
Despite the crisis, some Russians nevertheless plan to have a rest abroad. Warm sea, unusual excursions can make a trip stamped into mind for term of life. Unfortunately, troubles which can trap during the rest in a foreign country can also be remembered.
The 30th of June is the last day, when casinos and gambling bars are open in Russia. Many of those addicted to gambling may experience very hard times.
A recent research published in the Netherlands revealed that many foreign tourists, particularly the Dutch, prefer to stay away from Russian holiday-makers in Turkey and Egypt.
Russian Ministry of Mass Communications has come out with an unexpected initiative.
The recently shuttered Cherkizovsky Market could reopen by the end of the week, a city official said Wednesday, even as President Dmitry Medvedev warned that state land should not be given to "random swindlers."