MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Mission Control near Moscow said it would widen the International Space Station"s orbit by 700 meters on Wednesday evening.
Units from the Collective Security Treaty Organization"s rapid reaction force have completed joint command-and-staff counter-terrorism exercises in Tajikistan, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
A Russian warship on Monday escorted a three-vessel convoy through a pirate-infested area off the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden, a Navy spokesman said.