The most expensive house in a tree will be built in Britain. An unidentified Russian oligarch ordered the three storeyed house for his son. The 100,000-dollar worth dream house will be shipped to Moscow in May, The Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph reports.
The crew of a Russian tanker has successfully repelled an attack by pirates off the Somali coast, the Russian maritime journal Sovfrakht reported.
A senior police officer shot three people dead during the night and injured six others in a store in southern Moscow, Russia`s top investigators said on Monday.
The acting mayor of the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi has an unassailable lead in the 2014 Winter Olympics host city`s mayoral vote, the head of the local election commission said on Monday.
A prototype of the advanced Su-35 Flanker multi-role fighter plane burst into flames during take-off procedures at a testing ground in Russia`s Far East, a spokesman for the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant said on Monday.
Doctors from the Russian city of Izhevsk found a germinated branch of a fir-tree in the lungs of a man. Artyom Sidorenko, a 28-year-old man, was originally believed to be a cancer patient. He had seizures and was coughing up blood, a doctor said.
Viktor Kruchinin has traveled a half of the world as a military man. When he finally returned to his native village, he built a church with the help of his sons to atone his mortal sins. The 55-year-old mercenary does not like to recollect his past.
Muscovite Nonna M. can make a Guinness Book entry. The woman became pregnant contrary to all medical forecasts.
The son of Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet Union`s most infamous serial killer, has been arrested in east Ukraine on attempted murder charges.
MegaFon, Russia`s third largest mobile operator, said on Wednesday its U.S. GAAP net profit grew 30.5% year-on-year in 2008 to 44.32 billion rubles ($1.3 billion).
The official number of the unemployed people in Russia currently stands at 2.26 million, the country`s Health and Social Development Ministry said on Tuesday.
The amount of wealth in the hands of the top 100 richest Russians has slumped by astonishing $378 billion since last year - falling back to the levels of 2004.
Moscow has turned to generating electricity from its 5 million tones of annual refuse, with plans for 6 new incinerators to turn household waste into watts.
Russia says it will raise its oil quality to the international ‘Brent’ standard for the world`s largest pipeline project, the E.S.P.O. Experts say that could bring Russian producers millions of dollars more in profit.
The Russian Federation government is to introduce educational credits. These novelties will likely ease mechanism of getting credits for tens of thousands students. Main requirement of getting bank approval will be students’ good progress in studies.
The organizing committee of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games has invited domestic auto makers GAZ and AvtoVAZ to bid for the status of the Winter Olympics general partner, a business paper reported on Monday.
Japanese carmaker Toyota will suspend production at its plant near St. Petersburg for a second time in a month, a spokesman for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Russia said on Friday.
Japanese carmaker Toyota will suspend production at its plant near St. Petersburg for a second time in a month, a spokesman for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Russia said on Friday.
Garish makeup, extravagant hairdos, form-fitting clothes and - always - high heels. These are de rigueur. Despite the notorious Russian climate. Despite the snow, slush and freezing rain. Sidewalks like skating rinks are no reason not to don your high-heel boots. To casual observers, a Russian woman tottering about on shining ice in perilously high heels can look frightening. But if you ask why she doesn’t prefer more comfortable footwear, she will only be insulted. She is not suffering. She feels fine. Because she knows she looks great. And that’s the main thing. That sensational feeling trumps any slippery sidewalk, any mad dash for a departing bus or down an endless escalator in the Metro. I hear that in Europe they now have races for women in high heels. Russians have never been invited. Nor should they be! Because we would win every prize. Running in high heels is a national sport. We train every day, without even noticing.
Dreaming, as the Russians say, does no harm. Of course, the mayor is not dreaming just to dream: he wants to alleviate the horrendous traffic jams for which Moscow is notorious. But on the city’s streets there is a separate, even parallel life that has long since become entrenched. Muscovites make each other’s acquaintance in traffic jams, swap telephone numbers and CDs, watch television and work at their laptops. Television news shows are forever reporting that yet another Moscow millionaire has successfully delivered his wife’s new baby while stuck in traffic. Births in the back of gridlocked cars no longer surprise anyone. The baby was born healthy, thank God, so now let’s get on with it. If, of course, we can. A person may live half an hour from work, but that means nothing. At rush hour, the drive will take two hours at best; at worst, it could stretch to five.
The struggle for the title "Russia’s Third Capital" (following Moscow and St. Petersburg) between the governments of Kazan and Nizhni Novgorod is now over. Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, has won. The authorities of the city have already registered trademarks "Russia’s Third Capital" and " Russia’s third City" at the Russian Patent Agency.
The US National Central Bureau of Interpol informed of fake offices of the organization appearing in Russia. The offices conduct their activities in various regions and even have special documents and insignia with the symbols of the international police.
The counter-terrorism operation that was launched in Russia`s volatile republic of Chechnya in 1999 finished at midnight, the Russian National Anti-terrorism Committee said on Thursday.
The administration of a bread-baking enterprise based in the city of Chelyabinsk ventured to conduct a rather original advertising campaign for their products. The company`s management decided to strip their female employees to emphasize the products` availability and the company`s transparency. Photographs of naked accountants and secretaries were used to adorn the corporate calendar and billboards. It is noteworthy that the enterprise has plans to launch another advertising campaign in the future, where women will be left aside, although men will be exposed to the maximum.
Light drugs are still available in free sale in Russia despite the official decree issued by Surgeon General Gennady Onischenko. One can purchase a blend of dry herbs in specialized shops. Dope sellers assure their customers that their products are absolutely harmless.