An explosion in Makhachkala, the capital of Daghestan, that killed a local deputy mufti was aimed at destabilizing the situation in the republic, Mufti Magomed Albogachiyev said Friday.
Delivery of the Russian gas to Finland was suspended for six hours because of an explosion at a main gas pipeline in Vsevolozhsky District, Leningrad Region.
All 15 yellow phosphorous tanker cars that overturned in Western Ukraine last Monday have been hoisted back onto the tracks, the emergencies ministry said Tuesday.
Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky may visit Moscow July 30 to discuss paying for natural gas deliveries.
The United Nations will assist Chechnya in developing its agriculture, a REGNUM correspondent was told today at the press office of the Chechen president and the government.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Monday a law establishing the Trans-Baikal Territory as the country`s new constituent region, the Kremlin`s press service said.
Azerbaijan and Russia have initialed an agreement of mutual broadcasting of Azerbaijani and Russian TV-channels. The announcement was made today by Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasily Istratov yesterday.
Russian and French military aircraft will be redeployed from the Dushanbe International Airport to a nearby airbase after it is completed, a state-run air carrier said Friday.
Hundreds of thousands of Turks living abroad have been voting early as they arrive at Turkish airports or borders, anxious to play their part in an election they see as key to Turkey`s future direction.
Russia is ready to start talks on an amended Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty this autumn, and will continue to honor its provisions until the deadline set by a presidential decree, a Russian diplomat said Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill to spend debt and back-tax payments to the budget by bankrupt oil company Yukos on 2007 social programs, the Kremlin said Friday.
The Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC), registered in the United States, is hoping to acquire a majority stake in Russia`s Parliament Group before the year is out. Other global players may follow its lead.
A man suspected by Britain of involvement in the murder of exiled former spy Alexander Litvinenko refused to stand trial over the affair in a third country in an interview published Saturday.
The European Court of Human Rights has partially upheld an appeal by a retired Russian security officer held in a Urals prison on treason charges, ordering Russia to pay 3,000 euros compensation.
Today, on July 19, Ukrainian Emergency Minister Nestor Shufrich and Healthcare Minister Yuri Gaydayev arrived to the site of the crash of the train carrying phosphorus in Lvov Region.
Moldovan wines, whose exports to Russia were suspended a year ago, could begin arriving at Russian markets by September, Russia`s chief sanitary official said Thursday.
The United States consul general in Vladivostok in eastern Russia dismissed Thursday a local media report that American diplomats were involved in a car smuggling operation in the region from the U.S. and Japan.
Gunmen assaulted a vehicle carrying troops, injuring one person, in the town of Karabulak in Ingushetia at about 02:15 p.m. Moscow time yesterday.
Moldova is a victim of Vladimir Putin’s decision to suspend the CFE Treaty in Russia. Director of the European Institute for Political Studies (Chisinau) Viorel Cibotaru made the statement to Infor-Prim Neo news agency (Moldova).
Serbia`s accession to the EU must not be predicated on the resolution of the Kosovo problem, the country`s ambassador to Russia said Tuesday.
British actor Ian McKellen on Tuesday urged tightly-governed Singapore to loosen up and repeal its archaic laws barring homosexual acts.
A 2,400-year-old golden mask that once belonged to a Thracian king was unearthed in a timber-lined tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, archaeologists said Monday.
Russia`s Ground Forces will hold about 230 command-and-staff exercises at the operational level during summer 2007, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Foreign officials could in the future be brought to account for corruption-related crimes they commit in Russia, the chairman of the anticorruption commission of Russia`s lower house of parliament told RIA Novosti in an interview Thursday.
The owner of German corporation Hellmuth Simply Good will reward Russian divers for retrieving a $200,000 Hellmuth watch an anonymous man dropped into the Neva river in St. Petersburg, the divers` spokesman said.