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A film by Russian Oscar-winning film director...
A film by Russian Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov, Utomliennye solntsem 2 (Burnt by the Sun 2), has been selected for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, the festival"s art director Thierry Fremaux said.
An email address could become an official...
An email address could become an official online ID pass for Russian nationals, the communications and media minister said Tuesday, but experts were skeptical.
An HIV-positive Russian woman won a precedent-setting...
An HIV-positive Russian woman won a precedent-setting victory against widespread discrimination on Monday when a court awarded her custody of her orphaned younger brother.
An Israeli defense delegation headed by...
An Israeli defense delegation headed by National Security Advisor Uzi Arad has departed secretly for India, American Arab-language television station al-Houra reported on Monday.
Any airstrike against Iran by the United...
Any airstrike against Iran by the United States or Israel would be "unacceptable," the chief of the Russian General Staff Nikolai Makarov said on Monday.
A Russian pensioner beat his 82-year-old...
A Russian pensioner beat his 82-year-old former KGB officer father to death in revenge for the 1918 murder of the country"s last tsar and his family, national media said on Monday.
China never discussed with any country a...
China never discussed with any country a plan to dump U.S. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
Col. Gen. Alexander Postnikov, the head...
Col. Gen. Alexander Postnikov, the head of the Siberian Military District, has been appointed the commander of the Russian Ground Forces, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
Ecuador announced that it will evacuate...
Ecuador announced that it will evacuate the residents of the Galapagos Islands to a hill due to a tsunami threat, Latin American media reported Saturday.
Fifteen people were injured on Sunday when...
Fifteen people were injured on Sunday when the bus they were traveling in collided with a car on the highway between Stavropol and Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, an emergencies official said.
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has been...
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has been taken to a New York hospital with a heart complaint, Sky News said on Friday.
Four people, including two children, died...
Four people, including two children, died in a fire in the town of Otradny in the Samara Region in European Russia"s southeast, emergencies services said Tuesday.
French automaker Renault on Monday launched...
French automaker Renault on Monday launched the second production line at its Moscow Avtoframos facility, doubling its capacity to 160,000 cars per year.
Georgia"s team was wearing black bands and...
Georgia"s team was wearing black bands and scarves at the Parade of Nations at the opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver to mourn the death of their national, luger Nodar Kumaritashvili.
Guus Hiddink, who Dutch media reports say...
Guus Hiddink, who Dutch media reports say will coach the Ivory Coast at this year"s World Cup, has yet to request that the Russian football authorities invalidate his contract.
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Human rights activists held a sanctioned...
Human rights activists held a sanctioned rally calling for police reform on downtown Moscow"s Triumfalnaya Square on Saturday.
Iran has developed and successfully tested...
Iran has developed and successfully tested its first domestically-built air defense system capable of destroying aircraft at low and medium altitudes, Press TV cited the country"s defense minister as saying.
Iran has issued permission for a Russian...
Iran has issued permission for a Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter to overfly its territory en route to an international air show in Bahrain, an Iranian embassy official said Tuesday.
Iran has not officially notified Russian...
Iran has not officially notified Russian airlines that their pilots working in the Islamic Republic should leave the country, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Iran is likely to make a new announcement...
Iran is likely to make a new announcement regarding its controversial nuclear program during a ten-day celebration to mark the 31st anniversary of the country"s 1979 Islamic Revolution starting Monday.
J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The...
J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye," has died at his home in New Hampshire aged 91.
MOSCOW, April 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, April 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russian troops have begun training in the Moscow Region for the May 9 Victory Day parade, set to involve 8,729 service personnel, 112 military vehicles and 70 aircraft.
MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - President...
MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - President of Russia Vladimir Putin congratulated the Khrunichev state research and production space center with the 90th anniversary of its establishment, the presidential press office said Sunday.
MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine...
MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine needs to purchase at least 19.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas to maintain gas transit gas to Europe, a Russian deputy prime minister said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - The International...
MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - The International Space Station will be dismantled after 2015 to be replaced with a new orbital station, a Russian Space Agency official said Tuesday.
MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...
MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian carrier rocker with a U.S. satellite will be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Saturday, a spokesperson for the Russian space agency said Friday.
MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday he was certain that the dispute over the transit of Russian gas via Ukraine would be resolved "in the near future."
MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine's national gas company Naftogaz are preparing documents to restart gas supplies to Europe, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said on Sunday.
MOSCOW, July 16 (RIA Novosti) - The Endeavour...
MOSCOW, July 16 (RIA Novosti) - The Endeavour space shuttle has been launched to the International Space Station after a month"s delay, carrying seven astronauts.
MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - A Proton-M...
MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - A Proton-M rocket with a ProtoStar-2 telecommunication satellite has lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia"s space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday.
MOSCOW, May 2 (RIA Novosti) - Some 1,200,000...
MOSCOW, May 2 (RIA Novosti) - Some 1,200,000 Russians took to the streets for May Day rallies and demonstrations yesterday, the Interior Ministry reports.
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian state corporations have outlived their usefulness, have no future and should be reorganized and later privatized, the Russian president said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, November 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...
MOSCOW, November 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Proton-M rocket, which was launched late on Tuesday after a one-day delay, has delivered Europe"s Eutelsat W7 communications satellite to orbit, the Federal Space Agency said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Any...
MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Any comparison between Nazi Germany and Stalin"s Soviet Union is unacceptable, the head of the European Jewish Congress said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...
MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is investigating whether there are Russians on board the Thailand-flagged fishing vessel hijacked by pirates off Seychelles on Thursday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Moscow reiterated on Wednesday the international...
Moscow reiterated on Wednesday the international proposals to Iran on its nuclear program were still valid despite Tehran"s recent uranium enrichment to 19.75% purity.
MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - RIA...
MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - RIA Novosti has acquired the rights to more than 25,000 pictures by four of the best-known Russian artistic and factual photographers.
MOSCOW. (Yuri Zaitsev for RIA Novosti) -...
MOSCOW. (Yuri Zaitsev for RIA Novosti) - Yuri Solomonov, director and general designer of the Moscow-based Institute of Heat Engineering, said his institute could start work on the Ishim air-launched space system by July 1, 2007.
Now it is clear that the official reset...
Now it is clear that the official reset of Russian-U.S. relations will take place in Prague on April 8, with the signing of a new START treaty. It will be more of an Obama-Medvedev reset, because Russia and the United States are still facing too many hurdles to talk of renewing their relations.
Officials have reported 26 crewmembers are...
Officials have reported 26 crewmembers are on board the British-flagged chemical tanker St. James Park seized earlier by Somali pirates northeast of Seychelles, according to the EU anti-piracy operations Atalanta website.
One of the victims of the bombing in the...
One of the victims of the bombing in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria on Saturday has died and the number of injured has risen to 20, a security source said.
On March 5, 2010, Russian President Dmitry...
On March 5, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended an expanded meeting of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow. The focus of this meeting was the ongoing military reform.
Over 200 children, most of them younger...
Over 200 children, most of them younger than three years, have been hospitalized with acute intestinal infection in the Magadan Region in the Russian Far East, Rossiya TV channel reported on Sunday.
Poland"s decision to deploy a battery of...
Poland"s decision to deploy a battery of U.S. Patriot missiles just 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Russian border is neither political nor strategic, the Polish defense minister said Wednesday.
President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday wished...
President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday wished the national Olympic team success as 175 Russian athletes left for the 2010 Winter Games in Canada"s Vancouver.
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday...
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that Russia and the United States are close to completing negotiations on a new treaty on strategic arms cuts, and expressed the hope that the document could be signed soon.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave Russian...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave Russian scientists a hand on Thursday, putting a satellite collar on a polar bear during a trip to Russia"s Arctic.
Russia and Croatia signed on Tuesday an...
Russia and Croatia signed on Tuesday an intergovernmental agreement on building and operating the Croatian segment of the South Stream gas pipeline intended to supply natural gas to Europe.
Russia dismissed on Monday reports that...
Russia dismissed on Monday reports that world powers had made new offers to Iran on uranium reprocessing in a bid to defuse growing tensions over the Islamic Republic"s nuclear program.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved the country"s new military doctrine which allows preventive nuclear strikes against potential aggressors.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Thursday that he and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would make a joint decision on the future of their "effective" ruling tandem.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow on Monday to discuss the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he was satisfied with the tests of a Russian fifth-generation fighter jet.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the United States on Thursday that Russia could find other poultry suppliers if U.S. companies fail to meet the country"s sanitary requirements.
Russian State Corporation Olympstroy has...
Russian State Corporation Olympstroy has stepped up environmental requirements for investors and contractors doing construction work for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
Russian World War II veterans may be ordered...
Russian World War II veterans may be ordered to pay royalties to publicly perform war-era songs, as the country"s copyright watchdog claims has not been done in the past, the Russian Vesti channel said on Thursday.
Russia"s Expo-2010 pavilion could stay standing...
Russia"s Expo-2010 pavilion could stay standing for centuries, if not in China, then in Russia, the company that built the pavilion said.
Russia"s flagship carrier Aeroflot has finally...
Russia"s flagship carrier Aeroflot has finally taken the Tu-154M airliner (NATO reporting name Careless), out of service after decades in operation, the company said on Thursday.
Russia"s Gazprom confirmed on Thursday that...
Russia"s Gazprom confirmed on Thursday that it had received payment in full for December"s gas deliveries to Ukraine.
Russia"s lower house of parliament, the...
Russia"s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, passed in the third and final reading on Wednesday a government bill extending a ban on human cloning.
Russia"s Nikita Kriukov has brought the...
Russia"s Nikita Kriukov has brought the country its first Olympic gold coming first in the men"s cross-country individual sprint race at the Winter Games in Vancouver.
Russia"s Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov...
Russia"s Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov have won the pairs gold of the European Figure Skating Championships 2010 in Tallinn.
Russia, the United States and France have...
Russia, the United States and France have sent the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency a confidential letter expressing concern over Iran"s move to begin enriching uranium to 20%.
Russia, which has managed to restore peace...
Russia, which has managed to restore peace in the North Caucasus, is now to prove that the social and economic situation in the region can also be improved, the country"s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.
Some 40 Olympic facilities will be fully...
Some 40 Olympic facilities will be fully completed in the Winter Olympic 2014 host city of Sochi by the end of 2010, and 144 will be under construction, a Russian deputy premier said on Wednesday.
The 15th day of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver...
The 15th day of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver went off well for Russia as it took its fifth silver and seventh bronze, but saw its bobsleigh medal hopes shattered by a crash caused by a sled malfunction.
The attacker of an elderly Russian human...
The attacker of an elderly Russian human rights activist has been given a one-year suspended sentence by a Moscow court.
The first round of Ukraine"s presidential...
The first round of Ukraine"s presidential elections held on January 17 was democratic and legitimate, incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko said on Wednesday.
The German government and parliament are...
The German government and parliament are ready to discuss Russia"s proposals on European security, a German MP said Monday.
The launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket...
The launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket carrying the European Eutelsat W7 satellite has been scheduled for Tuesday evening, a spokesman for Russia"s Khrunichev space center said.
The number of people killed in a devastating...
The number of people killed in a devastating earthquake in Chile over has risen to 795, the country"s president told the Mercurio paper.
The Russian and Polish peoples should unite...
The Russian and Polish peoples should unite in the aftermath of the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash in western Russia earlier on Saturday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.
The Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers...
The Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers will meet in Moscow on Saturday and are likely to discuss natural gas issues facing the two countries.
The Russian government has injected about...
The Russian government has injected about 1 trillion rubles ($33 billion) into domestic banks in the 15 months since the global financial crisis hit the country in 2008, a government official said on Thursday.
The Russian parliament could pass legislation...
The Russian parliament could pass legislation restricting hours for selling alcohol, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday.
The United States is holding informal talks...
The United States is holding informal talks with Bulgaria on hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield on its soil, the U.S. ambassador to the Balkan country said Friday.
The volcanic ash cloud, which is drifting...
The volcanic ash cloud, which is drifting over Europe from an eruption in Iceland, will remain there for four to five days, AFP news agency quoted the Icelandic meteorological service as saying on Saturday.
Thousands of people came to downtown Moscow"s...
Thousands of people came to downtown Moscow"s Christ the Savior Cathedral on Holy Friday when divine services in churches across Russia are dedicated to Jesus Christ"s crucifixion and burial.
Ties between the Russian Orthodox Church...
Ties between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican have improved in recent years, but the time has not come for a historic meeting of their leaders, a senior Russian bishop said on Tuesday.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko suffered a second political defeat in under a month on Wednesday when parliament voted for the dismissal of her government.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he was shocked by the news of the death of the Polish president in a plane crash in western Russia on Saturday.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will be...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will be in Moscow on March 19 for the Mideast quartet meeting before heading to Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, a spokesman for the UN Secretary General said on Tuesday.
With copyright issues still a major problem...
With copyright issues still a major problem in Russia, Moscow remains one of the biggest markets for unlicensed Microsoft software, a business daily said on Monday.