Russia`s lower house of parliament rejected in the first reading a bill to impose a 40% minimum limit for the screening of Russian films at cinemas to support national film-makers, who are unable to withstand competition from foreign films.
Elections to eight regional legislatures this Sunday will likely be a key midterm indicator of which parties are in good financial shape for the next State Duma elections and which parties currently enjoy the Kremlin`s blessing.
Russia has begun the mass vaccination of poultry to try to stop the spread of the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus. Millions of vaccines have already been delivered to provinces in southern Russia - a region believed to be most vulnerable to the virus.
Russian car manufacturer AvtoVAZ, known for its Lada brand, plans to attract up to $4.5 billion of investment to update its product range under an agreement signed between the company and a Russian bank, the company`s press service said Friday.
State Dume has refused to pass the law about establishing obligatory quota for showing Russian films in the cinema theatres of the country.
The Head of the Russian Emergency Ministry Sergei Shoigu does not exclude that Russia will not manage to localize centers of bird flu spreading.
An opinion that successful career and happy personal life are incompatible is a common one.
Plenipotentiary of Russian president in Far East federal district Kamil Iskhakov handed state awards to widows of officers of Russian Federal Security Service administration over Habarovsk krai.
Many Russians know about the first steps of the recently established Public chamber, but they doubt, that it will be able to influence authority. According to the data of the February poll conducted by the research holding ROMIR Monitoring, every second Russian citizen is informed about the fact that the new agency has begun its activity, and for 49% of respondents this event remained unnoticed.
Latest investigation has revealed that work at home increases labour productivity.
Since the beginning of this year more than 1200 playing machines and game-playing points were removed in Moscow reported the mayor of the capital Yuriy Luzhkov on Tuesday. According to his words it became possible thanks to the law passed by the Moscow city Duma, which entered series of restrictions concerning the gambling industry and first of all in the market places.
The Russian foreign minister denied rumors Tuesday that Moscow had offered to Tehran some new, compromise options for the enrichment of Iranian uranium on Russian soil.
The possibility of primitive forms of life existence on Mars cannot be completely excluded, for example, this may be bacteria, the academic adviser of the academy of engineering RF Yuri Zaitsev believes.
The unique burial of the epoch of the early Iron age is found in the lower Amur, reported the head of storage department of the museum of archaeology of the Khabarovsk region of Svetlana Kositsina on Tuesday.
Traffic police across the country will give a free pass to women drivers who commit minor traffic violations on Wednesday in honor of International Women`s Day, a senior police official said Monday.
A German businessman has won control of a $40 million apartment complex in Cologne owned by the Russian government in a court case he brought after his assets in St. Petersburg were seized 11 years ago.
The Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Monday that it was considering a proposal to toughen the selection criteria for judges and to require lawmakers` approval before they could be fired.
Kharkov city council voted for giving to the Russian status of regional language on Monday.
Russians fell out of love with Cuba when the Soviet Union imploded. Cuba now hopes to win them back with rum cocktails, fine cigars and a little help from Papa Hemingway.
Aviation giant Boeing said Friday that it hoped to win a $3 billion contract to deliver 22 new long-haul planes to flag carrier Aeroflot, even if its rival Airbus has offered a discount.
Russia`s huge current account surplus could disappear by 2009, potentially threatening a liquidity crunch in the banking system if oil prices slump, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry`s chief forecaster said on Friday.
The minister of sport of Japan Kengi Kosaki, congratulating Olympic champion in figure skating Shizuka Arakawa stated, that "felt the happiness" when he saw, as Russian Irina Slutskaya fell during the performance of arbitrary program.
Moscow city court abolished sanction to arrest the director of Basmanny market Mark Mishiyev, which is passed as the accused on the case of building collapse.
The cost of British visa for Russians will rise for about 30 % after the new procedure of documents submission comes into force, and will constitute about $120.
Public movement "Against garbage blockade of St.Petersburg" intends to perform its own research of the problem of garbage placement, storage and processing in St. Petersburg and to make an experiment, which will help to follow all the way the garbage does from throwing it away to processing. This information has been revealed by one of the movement organizers Alexei Kononov today.