The Russian prime minister urged the authorities on Wednesday to try and find areas in the budget that could be cut to allow pensions to be increased, as well as carrying out pension reforms in 2010.
With unemployment in Russia rising sharply amid the global economic crisis, the Russian Orthodox Church is celebrating the day of St. Job, who lost everything but was ultimately rewarded for his faith.
Armenia has lodged a complaint against its neighbor Azerbaijan over what it calls a "gross violation" of Eurovision regulations, regional media said on Monday.
Russian actor Oleg Yankovksy, best known in the West for his work with director Andrei Tarkovksy, died on Wednesday morning in a Moscow hospital at the age of 65.
Russian athletes face an uphill struggle to prepare fully for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, a vice president of the Russian Olympic Committee said on Tuesday.
A candidate for mayor in the southern Russian city of Kislovodsk, who was wounded in an assassination attempt earlier on Tuesday, is in stable condition, a doctor at the local hospital said.
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, will break new ground this month by attending mass gatherings with young people at sports arenas in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced the head of a construction firm to 10 years in prison for defrauding home buyers of a total of $38 million in the Russian capital alone.
The mechanism of pension charges will not be changed. Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation has denied the information on possible cancellation of funded part of pension in the near future.
The police of the Russian city of Orlov detained a 50-year-old businessman, Sergey K., from Kursk. The man was caught in possession of dog meat for sale to Moscow restaurants. The policemen were shocked to find skinned bodies of 15 dogs in the boot of his car. The detained driver said imperturbably that he was delivering dressed mutton. An examination revealed that it was dog meat.
Police officer Denis Gribkov attacked passers-by and raped schoolboys when he was not on duty. He could not be caught for three years. The news about a pedophile with a holster on his belt appeared in St. Petersburg for the first time in 2006.
Human sexuality is so powerful because it is not only for reproduction. Animals don`t have sex all the time but humans do. Human sexuality is a hunger of the soul as well as body and that is because human sexuality is an expression of the essence of God.
What do you think about when you make love? For those who have already gripped their keyboards to type angry comments like "About nothing!", "What do you know about love?!", "Find yourself somebody at last!" I will formulate my question in another way: "What do you think about during sex?"
Russia`s Investigation Committee has launched criminal proceedings against a Finnish national who is suspected of illegally taking his son out of Russia, a committee spokesman said on Friday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in a TV interview that more regional investment was needed for hospitals and healthcare in the country.
Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place in Moscow on May 12-16, will cost a lot more than the previous contests held in other countries. The spending on the contest in Moscow will not return any profit, The Vedomosti newspaper wrote.
Passengers arriving at Russian airports will be checked with a special device which instantly measures body temperature.
It is an open secret that men’s behavior depends on their sex life. Testicles produce sperm 24/7 non-stop. This sperm ‘workshop’ needs to send it products away all the time. If a man does not find a way to relieve himself of his own sperm, he may have severe problems. The goal of every sperm cell is to either reach an egg cell or leave the ‘production department.’ If men’s cells do not find a way out, they destroy themselves.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev confirmed the intention of the authorities to ban the gambling business in Russia. Mikhail Mokretsov, the head of Russia’s Federal Tax Service, signed the adequate order immediately after his meeting with Medvedev, The Kommersant newspaper wrote.
More than a third of children in Kyrgyzstan are forced to do jobs that are unacceptable for their age, according to a study released on Thursday.
More than 200 dead seals have been found on Kazakhstan`s coast of the oil-rich Caspian Sea, a local fishery official said on Thursday.
The Trojan virus has been found out in tens of Russian cash machines. Experts of the companies producing and serving bank terminals, have revealed in some operating devices harmful programs created for larceny of clients’ data.
Russia`s largest truck maker KamAZ has resumed production, after a lack of orders led to a three-week halt, a spokesman for the truck producer said on Tuesday.
A man has been detained by police in northwest Ukraine on suspicion of murdering his wife and his 70-year-old neighbor in a bizarre dispute over the washing-up.
Travelling Russia extensively, it is always with great trepidation that I enter public bathrooms in many areas, such as at train stations, parks and other areas. But this is not limited only to the public. Working with heavy industry the same is true for most of the older, heavy manufacturing facilities.