Issues regarding privatization in Ukraine are part of the most serious challenges for the domestic economy, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said at a meeting with major Ukrainian businessmen in Kiev yesterday.
The first night after he was snatched in Gaza nearly four months ago, BBC reporter Alan Johnston feared he was about to die. The kidnappers` masked leader appeared in the doorway, and moments later the prisoner was handcuffed, hooded and taken outside.
Russia`s Sochi was selected to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games Wednesday at the 119th International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Guatemala, dashing the hopes of Salzburg in Austria and Pyeongchang in South Korea.
Some 6,500 troops will take part in large-scale counterterrorism exercises August 9-17 conducted by a regional security and economic group dominated by Russia and China, Russia`s deputy Ground Forces commander said Tuesday.
"We are getting closer to liberation of Karabakh. We have enough power for defending our territories. Azerbaijan’s position regarding the conflict settlement is supported globally," Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced, speaking at a meeting with graduates of the Police Academy.
"President Viktor Yushchenko’s initiatives regarding establishment of a two-chamber parliament are a start of the territorial division of Ukraine," leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party Pyotr Simonenko said.
Russian reporter Fatima Tlisova denies reports in the media that she was granted political asylum in the United States.
President Vladimir Putin has raised the prospect of a return to Soviet-style academic censorship after he accused the West of plotting to distort Russian history in an attempt to crush patriotic sentiment in schools.
Russia will have commissioned three road-mobile Topol-M ICBMs this year, the Strategic Missile Forces commander said Saturday.
Two Russian tourists, suspected of stealing and smuggling more than 100 cars in Japan, have been detained by police in the city of Yokohama, local authorities said Friday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Okinawa on Saturday to commemorate a bloody World War Two battle, the day after local lawmakers blasted official plans to alter school textbook accounts of wartime suicides.
It began with an inmate pen-pal program. It blossomed into poetry. It led to a marriage.
The first vice president of Russian space corporation Energia, Alexander Strekalov, will fulfill the duties of the corporation`s president, who has been suspended, the board chairman said Friday.
The newly established Investigation Committee at the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office will engage in the investigation of the Litvinenko case, said Alexander Bastrykin, who was appointed to the post of the Investigation Committee head by the Russian Federation Council.
European Union leaders headed for a showdown on Thursday over efforts to overhaul the bloc`s creaking institutions, but chances of agreement appeared to be rising after chief critic Poland softened its tone.
A train carrying military hardware left a Russian base in Georgia early Thursday as part of a 2006 deal on the withdrawal of Russian bases from the ex-Soviet Caucasus state, the Georgian Defense Ministry said.
At least $300 million of investment is required to turn an airport in Khabarovsk into Russia`s Far Eastern hub, the regional governor said Thursday.
Police in southern Russia have prevented 30 planned terrorist attacks since the start of the year, the country`s deputy prosecutor general said Thursday.
British Airways has officially apologized to former NHL star from Russia Pavel Bure, who filed a lawsuit with a Moscow court demanding the airline pay $770,000 in compensation for moral damage.
A militant was killed in southeast Chechnya in a shootout with local police, and five gunmen were arrested, a local police source said Thursday.
The Russian Prosecutor General`s Office said Wednesday that Russian fugitive tycoon Boris Berezovsky may be behind false reports about the alleged resignation of the country`s prosecutor general.
Russia does not consider Iran a threat and it should not be used to justify plans to deploy missiles in Europe, Russia`s foreign minister told a Wednesday news conference in Tehran.
A court in St. Petersburg has sentenced four men convicted of murdering a Congolese student in September 2005 to between seven and 14 years in prison.
The Russian Embassy in Israel said local authorities could open a border checkpoint with Gaza to allow Russian nationals to leave the area hit by recent violence between rival Palestinian factions.
The U.S. House of Representatives almost unanimously passed a resolution urging the Russian president to invite foreign experts to help investigate the murders of independent journalists in Russia.