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.
More than 1,300 trucks are stuck in queues on both sides of the Russian-Latvian border, a spokesman for the Latvian border guards said Thursday.
The Rossiya TV channel confirmed reports Thursday that two of its correspondents had been detained in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict area.
Russian tennis chief Shamil Tarpishchev will finally get a US visa today and will be able to depart from Moscow to Stow, where Russian female tennis players are to play with the US team at the semifinals of the Federation Cup. If his flight departs in time, Tarpishchev is planned to land in the USA at midnight Moscow time.
A Moscow court has again postponed for two weeks the hearings in absentia of a $8-million fraud case against Russian fugitive tycoon Boris Berezovsky following a request from his state-appointed lawyer.
Lebanese troops have begun a final assault on positions held by Islamic militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a local television station said Thursday.
Legislators in Novosibirsk, in West Siberia, reappointed incumbent Governor Viktor Tolokonsky Thursday.
President Pervez Musharraf`s government said Wednesday that militants accounted for most of the 106 people killed in eight days of fighting around the Red Mosque, calling it a signal that Islamic extremism won`t be tolerated in Pakistan.
Member of the Lithuanian Seimas, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee Emanuel Zinger calls Lithuania as a NATO country to get prepared for a possible aggression from the Russian side and "take reciprocal steps."
The construction of a new base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the port of Novorossiisk will be completed by 2012, the Navy Commander said Wednesday.
More than 4,300 people are considered missing in Russia`s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya since 1994, the republic`s human rights ombudsman said Wednesday.
Prosecutors on Wednesday said two men will face retrial over a failed plot to bomb London`s transit system in 2005, two weeks after suicide bombers killed 52 commuters in the city.
Russia will send a team of mine-disposal experts to a mountainous area in Lebanon to the east of Beirut in 2008, a spokesman for the Lebanon Mine Action Program said Wednesday.
At its last summer session Wednesday, the Federation Council, the upper house of Russia`s parliament, approved a law establishing the Trans-Baikal Territory as the country`s new constituent region.
A Russian emergencies ministry plane landed in Moscow Tuesday with 22 evacuees onboard from the Palestinian Gaza Strip torn by inter-factional violence, a ministry spokesman said.
Russia will soon join the World Health Organization`s tobacco control convention, the country`s foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will visit the winner of the 2014 Winter Olympics bid, Sochi, in late August, the head of the Russian bidding committee said Tuesday.
Russians and CIS citizens are now checking in at Amman airport, Jordan, to be boarded on a plane of the Russian Emergency Ministry, a REGNUM correspondent was told at the press office of the Emergency Minsitry.
Russia`s tennis team captain Shamil Tarpischev comments on his US visa problems.