The President of Russia Vladimir Putin thinks that the law-enforcement agencies underestimated the danger of the splash of crimes owing to xenophobia, racial, national and religious hostility.
The administration of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Chita district appealed in the provincial court the resolution of the law court of the city Krasnokamensk which declared illegal the decision of the administration of the colony about telling off to the former head of the oil company "YUKOS" Mikhail Hodorkovskiy.
People`s artist of the USSR died of long-lasting disease in Moscow today, being 94 years old, informed the directorate of State academic Maly theatre, where he worked since 1967.
Powerful snowfall struck Moscow at night and initiated many problems on capital roads. The majority of roads are snow-blocked.
Number of citizens in Kamchatka will reduce if authorities of regional center don`t change the city politics.
Russia has promising figure skaters in the man single rolling which will bring to the country the gold medals of future Olympiads and as for Russian women are good only in the construction of railroads, assumes Aleksey Mishin the trainer of Olympic champion in the man single rolling Yevgeny Plushenko.
Private kindergartens and mini-kindergartens are developing in Yekaterinburg. According to the head of the city Education Department Eugenia Umnikova, at present there are 6 private kindergartens operating in Yekaterinburg.
Majority of Russian people (62%) know practically nothing about Constitutional Court work. 29% of respondents have heard something about it, and only 2% of the interviewed consider themselves well informed about Constitutional Court, and watch its activity.
Moscow authority will not allow holding gay parade under no consequences and in any form, Moscow mayor`s press-secretary Sergei Tsoy has reported on Thursday.
The trial of two men charged with killing Forbes editor Paul Khlebnikov started over on Wednesday under a new judge, who rejected a defense request to open the proceedings to the public and media.
The Prosecutor General`s Office said Wednesday that it was investigating whether a Volgograd newspaper was guilty of inciting ethnic hatred after it published a cartoon last week showing Jesus, Moses, Buddha and the Prophet Mohammed.
The deputy chairman of Russian natural monitoring Oleg Mitvol will hold the conference of the Main administration of Russian natural monitoring on the Siberian federal region.
During the regular meeting of the club "The scientist guest" the journalists communicated on the subject of pseudo-science and parasciences. On the one hand, the sciences noted that the naming parascience is a high honor for its representatives as long as the concept consists of the word ‘science’, but at the same time the matter concerns cheating. On the other hand, the members of Russian Academy of Sciences say that the term ‘pseudo-science’ is perilous. According to their words, today`s fighters against pseudo-science are compared to the soviet fighters against genetics and cybernetics exactly because of this term.
Almost 42 million visits on official Olympics Games web site have been registered. These figures are considered record, comparing to total of 37 million visits of extremely popular the Athens Summer Games in 2004.
Competition on pancake making between teams of Ukraine and Russia will be held at the time of Pancake week celebration in Moscow, the director of the festival Sergei Komin has announced at the press-conference on Wednesday.
About 2,5 million primroses are sold illegally in the Russian capital to Moscow every year, the press-service of Moscow Department of natural management and environmental protection has reported on Wednesday. The first stage of operation "Primrose 2006" is said to take place in the Russian capital from February 20 to March 12.
Famous Russian composer Andrey Petrov died in St. Petersburg, reported St. Petersburg Union of Composers official.
Russian president Vladimir Putin keeps eye on Olympiad. This was informed by the head of Russian sport Vyacheslav Fetisov.
Current year is declared the Year of the humanities, culture and education in Russia - Year of academician Dimitry Likhachev.
Ex-head of "YUKOS" Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who serves punishment in Chita oblast, addressed an application with request for research activity to warden.
Chairman of "Beslan Mothers" committee Susanna Dudieva demanded abolition of death penalty moratorium, which was introduced in Russia in 1996. She made this announcement during the trial against Nurpashi Kulaev in Vladikavkaz.
Anapa beaches are sown with shellfishes - over million of mollusks are thrown out of the sea to Anapa seashore. Anapa citizens are shocked at such number of rapa whelks.
Russian Muslims may organize serious protest actions if representatives of sexual minority hold gay-parade in Moscow at the end of May.
The case of maimed servicemen Andrei Sychev from Chelyabinsk tank institute persuaded Russian citizens in need for contract service in army.
Ceremony of memorial cathedral-chapel consecration with the capsule containing memorial text will be held on Tuesday at the place of tragedy in "Transvaal Park".