The number of registered unemployed is likely to rise 18 percent by the end of the year, Federal Labor and Employment Service head Yury Gertsy said Wednesday, a figure that calls into question the efficacy of the government`s multibillion-dollar anti-crisis plan.
A militant was killed in a shootout between militants and police in Russia`s North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia early on Friday, a spokesman for the republic`s Interior Ministry said.
The Russian Pacific Fleet`s Admiral Panteleyev destroyer and Irkut tanker returned on Wednesday to their base in Vladivostok after an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden.
A bank robber has been arrested by Russian police who found him hiding out in the Urals with 230 million rubles ($7.3 million) in stolen cash, local police said on Wednesday.
Moscow`s most expensive rental apartment costs over 1.5 million rubles ($50,000) per month, a spokesman for the DOKI Real Estate Agency said on Monday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told state-run banks on Monday to use new government funding to increase lending by at least 150 billion rubles ($4.8 billion) in July.
With a looming July 1 deadline to shut their doors and take down all signs, many Moscow casinos have opted to close early rather than gamble on working right down to the wire.
A cruise ship with 14 A/H1N1-infected people onboard arrived in Russia`s second city of St. Petersburg on Monday, Russia`s chief sanitary official Gennady Onishchenko said.
When German troops neared Moscow in November 1941, there was a real threat for the capital of the Soviet Union to capitulate. Stalin found out shortly before that that Adolf Hitler was conducting all important meetings in underground bunkers. Stalin decided to build reliable shelters for himself.
According to the Cooperation Agreement signed between Mos-cow Trade Union Federation (MTUF) and Seoul City Regional Office of Federation of Korean Trade Union (FKTUS), the FKTUS delegation headed by the Vice-Chairman Yoon Jinsoo was in Russia from 19 till 24, June 2009.
Russia marks the Day of Memory and Grief on June 22. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet nation against German fascists began 68 years ago. Thousands of people light candles today in honor of those who fell in the war.
Russia’s strategic nuclear-powered Yury Dolgoruki submarine has finally been launched. It is the first submarine, which Russia made after the collapse of the USSR. Russian shipbuilders can be both proud and ashamed of the new cruiser: the works on the submarine began 16 years ago.
Unusual shrimp-like creatures, amphipods, were discovered during a dive into East Siberia`s Lake Baikal, a member of the expedition told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
Russia`s chief doctor said swine flu could be treated as normal seasonal influenza despite the WHO`s classification of the outbreak as a global pandemic, but advised Russians to protect themselves with masks.
Russia has to work now so that it is prepared in the fall to deal with a rise in cases of the H1N1 flu, chief doctor Gennady Onishchenko said on Friday.
According to the head of department Jury Chaika there are exactors mainly among doctors and teachers. In the report about corruption in the Russian Federation in 2008 these specialists are more often than the others involved in investigation of affairs about bribery.
Explorers conducting mini-submarine dives in Siberia`s Lake Baikal began their search on Friday for several carriages known to have sunk in the world`s deepest lake during the 1917-1923 Russian Civil War.
Rescuers have completed their search and rescue operation at the site of a building which collapsed in central Moscow on Wednesday, a municipal emergencies service spokesman said on Thursday.
The editorial office of opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta - five of whose staff have been killed or died in mysterious circumstances in the last eight years -nestles in one of central Moscow`s oldest districts, its Stalin-era building as solid as the spirit which fortified Soviet dissidents.
A calf with five legs and two sex organs was born in the Russian village of Zoborie in the Perm region. The calf immediately became a local celebrity. People from the neighbouring villages come to Zaborie to see this unique prodigy of nature.
Russian scientists from the Institute of Brain Research managed to prove that every person has conscience.
The global economic crisis has not been resolved, but it has prompted Russia to work harder to diversify its economy to avoid similar developments in the future, the Russian president said.
Leading Russian news agencies and media outlets have agreed on proposals for a draft law on granting news reports the legal status of goods and imposing fines for illegal publishing of copyrighted material.
A Russian photographer is to spend a month on a rocky mountain peak in an East Siberian nature reserve in protest against a planned cull of local bears.
A solider, who returned home from slavery, was arrested in Russia’s Lipetsk region. The young man was listed as missing in the republic of Dagestan for five years. It turned out that the commanders of military unit No. 6752 stationed in the republic’s capital, Makhachkala, handed the conscript to the owners of a private brick factory. The serviceman became their slave.