The number of European bison inhabiting southern areas of the Kaluga Region, southwest of Moscow, has increased 25% to 50 animals in the past year, the director of a local wildlife reserve said on Friday.
Russians spend more than one third of their salaries on food. Research holding ROMIR found out people had to spend 76% of wages got in January on food.
Russia’s oil company Rosneft on Tuesday got the official status of the general partner of the XXII Winter Olympic and XI Paralympic Games that will be held in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi in 2014.
Customers in Moscow supermarkets tell how higher prices and the economic crisis are affecting their shopping habits.
Russia`s top investigator said on Wednesday the Makhmudov brothers, acquitted of the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, were involved in her death, but the prosecution had failed to convince the jurors of this.
Some Russian industries are expected to experience growth in the upcoming months, Arkady Dvorkovich, an assistant to the president, said in an interview with Russian magazine Itogi published Tuesday.
President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree reducing the number of military personnel in the Armed Forces in yet another step towards a transforming the Russian Army into a professional, contract-based defense force.
Russia is to send a military hospital to Chad and engineers to the Central African Republic in support of UN missions, Russia`s envoy has told a UN Assembly General peacekeeping committee.
Passenger turnover on the Moscow Metro has dropped by 200,000 people over the last several months, Moscow metro head Dmitry Gayev told Izvestia newspaper earlier this month. The metro carries 9.5 million passengers every 24 hours.
Great Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week, is an ancient Russian holiday that falls on the seventh week before Russian Orthodox Easter - a splurge before Lent. Originally marking winter`s demise and the imminent arrival of spring, the highlight of the festivities is round and golden bliny, which are traditionally taken to symbolize the sun.
More than 400 bee-keepers from 50 regions around Russia and the CIS have gathered to take part in the All-Russia Honey and Honey Products Fair that is running through to March 3 at the Manezh exhibition centre. Honey is available from such exotic locales as North Ossetia, Chechnya, Chuvashia, Krasnodarsky Krai, Primorsky Krai, Udmurtia and Bashkortostan. "There will be about 60 varieties of honey to choose from," a representative from the Moscow Department for Retail Markets and Services told RIA Novosti on Monday. Not only can customers meet all their honey needs, but they can buy propolis, royal jelly, pollen, wax, natural mead as well as feed their minds with bee-keeping and honey literature. "The average price for honey at the fair will depend on the type and how far it has travelled - prices will range from 300-600 roubles a kilogram," said the representative. "Pensioners will receive a 10 per cent discount and WWII veterans will receive a 20 per cent discount." The honey`s qualit
The time is summer 2008, and employers are hiring freely and are eager to get good candidates, even if it means paying more, or even substantially more. Applicants negotiate with confidence, and recruiting agencies confirm that salaries are going up and up, sometimes by as much as 50 per cent a year.
The time is summer 2008, and employers are hiring freely and are eager to get good candidates, even if it means paying more, or even substantially more. Applicants negotiate with confidence, and recruiting agencies confirm that salaries are going up and up, sometimes by as much as 50 per cent a year.
Bailiffs extend their powers. In case of legislative amendments this department can get a law enforcement agency status.
A jury on Thursday acquitted all defendants suspected of involvement in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
MOSCOW, February 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will deliver a fourth Tu-204 medium-haul airplane to Cuba in March, the United Aircraft Corporation said on Wednesday.
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, February 18 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom is continuing to regard Europe as its main natural gas market in the mid term, the CEO of the Russian energy giant said on Wednesday.
Over 90,000 of Russians turned to the Pension Fund affiliates asking to pay for mortgage loan with their maternity capital. Specialists predict growth of such compellations in the near future.
The top-ranking official of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said Friday that Russia and Armenia are to create a common air defense system, intended to be part of a larger CSTO air defense.
It has been confirmed by the Swiss anti-doping laboratory that three Russian biathletes were using prohibited substances. The results have been published on the official International Biathlon Union (IBU) website.
As the crew of the released cargo ship Faina has arrived in Ukraine, scandalous details concerning the alleged information leak have surfaced. The vessel loaded with heavy weaponry was released last week after almost five months of captivity.
KOROLYOV (Moscow Region), February 13 (RIA Novosti) - The remnants of the U.S. and Russian satellites that collided on Tuesday poses a serious threat to other satellites on the same orbit, a Russian Mission Control official told journalists on Friday.
NAZRAN, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Three officers of the law enforcement bodies died and three got injuries in a special operation in Ingushetia, ITAR-TASS learnt at the law enforcement bodies of the republic.
MOSCOW, February 12 (Itar-Tass) - Police detained suspects in the murder of North Ossetia`s Deputy Prime Minister Kazbek Pagiyev, chairman of the Investigations Committee of the Prosecutor General`s Office (SKP) Alexander Bastrykin said at an expanded meeting of senior SKP officials on Thursday.
MOSCOW, February 11 (Itar-Tass) -- Four million illegal migrants are staying in Russia. Federal Migration Service Deputy Director Anatoly Kuznetsov said on Wednesday.