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A drug user in the east Siberian city of...

A drug user in the east Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk murdered and then beheaded a deaf and mute girl to steal $100 and three gold earrings from her, Russian media said on Wednesday.

A German luger, who won a silver medal at...

A German luger, who won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, broke his tooth after reporters asked him to bite his medal, Moscow-based radio Business FM reported.

A leader of Wahhabi militants in Russia"s...

A leader of Wahhabi militants in Russia"s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria has been killed in a special operation, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Thursday.

A Moscow court warned media on Thursday...

A Moscow court warned media on Thursday against exerting pressure on judges over a RIA Novosti photo correspondent fined for photographing an unsanctioned opposition meeting.

A multimedia photo exhibition representing...

A multimedia photo exhibition representing stories of ordinary people across the globe will open at the Krasny Octyabr chocolate factory in Moscow on March 6, the project organizers said.

An eighty-two year old Russian human rights...

An eighty-two year old Russian human rights activist has been attacked while paying tribute to the people who died in the Moscow metro bombings.

A police officer in Dagestan killed his...

A police officer in Dagestan killed his ex-wife on Monday after an argument, then shot himself, a police spokesman in the Russian North Caucasus republic said.

Around 20 militants have been killed in...

Around 20 militants have been killed in a clash with troops in the volatile south Russian republic of Ingushetia, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday.

At least 152 people were trapped after a...

At least 152 people were trapped after a coal mine under construction in north China"s Shanxi province was flooded on Sunday, the Xinhua official news agency reported, citing local officials.

At least 300 people have died after a powerful...

At least 300 people have died after a powerful earthquake hit north-west China"s Qinghai province early on Wednesday.

A total of 825 people died from drug overdoses...

A total of 825 people died from drug overdoses in Moscow last year, almost twice as many as in 2008, the director of a Moscow drug research center told RIA Novosti on Thursday.

China says the United States are violating...

China says the United States are violating the international norms and spoils bilateral relations after President Barack Obama met with Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama in Washington, Xinhua news agency said.

COPENHAGEN, June 3 (RIA Novosti) - A final...

COPENHAGEN, June 3 (RIA Novosti) - A final decision on conflicting territorial claims on the Arctic seabed must be made by the United Nations, the Russian foreign minister said on Wednesday.

Dynamo Moscow dismissed coach Andrei Kobelev...

Dynamo Moscow dismissed coach Andrei Kobelev on Tuesday and wasted no time in appointing Montenegrin Miodrag Bojovic.

Dynamo Moscow have decided to appeal to...

Dynamo Moscow have decided to appeal to UEFA over a penalty given to Terek Grozny during the club"s recent match in the Chechen capital of Grozny, club president Yury Isayev said on Thursday .

FC Moskva has become the first football...

FC Moskva has become the first football club ever to withdraw from the Russian Premier League.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend a Victory Day Parade on Moscow"s Red Square on May 9, a German government spokesman said on Friday.

How have the sympathies of Ukrainian voters...

How have the sympathies of Ukrainian voters changed after the first round of the January 17 presidential elections?

Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva said...

Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva said on Friday the country would become a parliamentary republic after changes are made in the constitution in order to renew democracy.

Iran currently has no missiles capable of...

Iran currently has no missiles capable of striking Europe and the U.S., Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

Kiev is seeking to be the venue for the...

Kiev is seeking to be the venue for the signing of a new nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States, a respected Russian business daily reported on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's...

MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Interior Ministry said on Sunday it was taking extra measures to thwart neo-Nazi rallies on Hitler's birthday.

MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Finans business magazine has compiled a ranking of the country"s richest heirs, putting the son of a co-owner of oil giant LUKoil in pole position.

MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyzstan...

MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyzstan wants Russia to locate a new military base closer to its border with Uzbekistan, in the southern Batken region, the Kyrgyz ambassador said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...

MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and the United States have coordinated the bulk of documents paving the way for a new agreement on fishing in northern areas of the Bering Sea, a senior Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday. The new agreement is designed to compensate Russia for losses from fishing areas ceded to the United States in line with the so called Baker-Shevardnadze agreement on the delimitation of waters in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Igor Neverov, Director of the ministry"s North American Department, said: "For several years Russia has held talks with the United States to sign a comprehensive fishing agreement in the northern part of the Bering Sea that would compensate Russian fishermen for losses from fishing in areas ceded to the United States. I can say that the bulk of the documents comprising the agreement have been so far coordinated." The diplomat said that Russia had not put forward the issue of ratifying the agreement, mainly due to inconsistencies over the economic losses suffered by Russia in the Bering Sea. He also said that the Russian government had repeatedly checked the agreement"s compliance with international maritime laws, Russian interests and an assessment of the potential consequences in case the agreement is not ratified. "The resulting conclusion was that the agreement does not contradict Russian interests, except for the loss of fishing rights in central areas of the Bering Sea," Neverov said. Meanwhile, Russia will invest up to 35 billion rubles ($1.43 billion) in projects to develop the coastal infrastructure for the fishing industry within the next three years, Andrei Krainy, head of the Federal Agency for Fishing, told a news conference in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea. He said large investment would be required following amendments to federal laws on fishing coming into effect on January 1, 2009. Under the amendments, foreigners will be banned from fishing within 200 miles from Russian coasts and will have to submit their catches to Russian customs inspectors. "The restrictions will be imposed because some Asia-Pacific countries have created an entire industry processing Russian fishing resources illegally. As a result, Russia has been losing huge amounts of fish," Krainy said. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker signed the agreement in Washington on June 1, 1990. The agreement was designed to clear differences in the understanding of the demarcation line set by the Russian-American convention of 1867 on the concession of Alaska. The U.S. received an additional sea area in 1977, during the demarcation of the Bering Sea fishing zone, and the Soviet Union had its fishing zone reduced as a result. Washington compensated Moscow for losses with annual fishing quotas up to 1981, when Soviet troops entered Afghanistan. The two powers started drafting a new agreement in 1981.

MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti) - An Indonesian...

MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti) - An Indonesian citizen who died in a car crash near Moscow was the son of a staff member of the Indonesian embassy, an embassy official told RIA Novosti.

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MOSCOW, July 22 (RIA Novosti) - The construction...

MOSCOW, July 22 (RIA Novosti) - The construction of sports facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi will cost Russia 195.3 billion rubles ($6.25 billion), Vice-Premier Dmitry Kozak said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, July 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President...

MOSCOW, July 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin effectively work together, U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday.

MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. President...

MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. President Barack Obama met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church on Tuesday, the second day of his three-day visit to the Russian capital.

MOSCOW, June 14 (RIA Novosti) - The leaders...

MOSCOW, June 14 (RIA Novosti) - The leaders of the post-Soviet CSTO security bloc have signed an agreement on creating a joint rapid-reaction force without a signature from Belarus, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday.

MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russian vodka...

MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russian vodka output declined 2% year-on-year to 37.3 million decaliters in the first four months of 2008, the country"s National Alcohol Association said on Monday. Ethanol production fell 27.6% year-on-year to 13.9 million decaliters in January-April 2008. According to official statistics, wine output went up 10.5% year-on-year to 15.6 million decaliters in the first four months of 2008. Russia produced 5.2 million decaliters of champagne and sparkling wines in the reporting period, up 16% against the same period last year, and cognac production increased 19.6% year-on-year to 5.2 million decaliters. The output of low alcohol drinks doubled year-on-year to 13.1 million decaliters in January-April 2008.

Moscow may have jumped the gun in announcing...

Moscow may have jumped the gun in announcing that a Russia-U.S. arms control pact was ready to be signed, a White House spokesman indicated on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian political parties may soon be freed of the necessity to collect a set amount of signatures in order to register for parliamentary polls, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.

MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko and Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov spoke at the lower chamber of parliament Wednesday, addressing child adoption, a very acute problem in Russia, given some 800,000 registered orphans and 1,115,000 homeless children detained by police last year.

MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti) - Police...

MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti) - Police are searching for thieves who have stolen 50 mink coats worth 1.5 million rubles ($52,000) from a private firm"s showroom in northern Moscow, a police spokesman said on Sunday.

MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday dialogue with European partners on issues related to human rights should be politically unbiased.

MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...

MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will spend an additional 900 million rubles ($31 million) on organizing its display at the Expo-2010 exhibition in Shanghai, Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Stanislav Naumov said.

MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti) - Sotheby's...

MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti) - Sotheby's said Friday a painting by Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich is expected to bring at least $60 million at an evening auction in New York on November 3.

MOSCOW, October 6 (RIA Novosti) - Chechen...

MOSCOW, October 6 (RIA Novosti) - Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has filed another libel suit against the chief editor and several reporters of Novaya Gazeta daily, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - Berlin...

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - Berlin police searched 26 apartments on Wednesday in a series of raids targeting 13 Chechen extremists living in the city"s Neukolln and Kreuzberg districts, a police spokesman said.

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - Hydropower...

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - Hydropower company RusHydro will raise loans worth 7 billion rubles ($230 million) in 2010 to restore a Siberian hydropower plant severely damaged during a recent accident, the company"s acting CEO said Wednesday.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Nikolai Troitsky) - The Constitutional Court, Russia"s highest legal body, should have its say on capital punishment. But while the Court has paused to negotiate, this issue remains a subject of heated public debates.

Moscow. (RIA Novosti political correspondent...

Moscow. (RIA Novosti political correspondent Andrei Fedyashin) – Starting today, December 1, Greater Europe will live under a new Constitution. It took eight years to adopt and nobody dares use the term “constitution” officially because it was so difficult to adopt it. They prefer to call it the “Lisbon Treaty on reform.”

MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during a televised interview on Friday that the human rights situation in the country was "far from perfect."

MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti) - The death toll from a tsunami that hit the remote Pacific islands of American and Western Samoa on Wednesday has risen to at least 99, with dozens of people missing, Taiwan News reported.

MOSCOW/ST. PETERSBURG, October 27 (RIA Novosti)...

MOSCOW/ST. PETERSBURG, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian and a Ukrainian sailor have been found dead in South Africa on a cargo ship run by a St. Petersburg-based firm, a Russian online edition said on Tuesday.

Nearly a month after a deadly blaze at a...

Nearly a month after a deadly blaze at a night club in Russia"s Urals city of Perm, the death toll is continuing to rise.

NEW DELHI, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - India...

NEW DELHI, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - India and Russia could reach a final agreement by the end of July on the cost of overhauling the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to be delivered to the Indian navy, the Hindu newspaper said on Friday.

NEW DELHI, November 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

NEW DELHI, November 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin arrived in the Indian capital New Delhi on a working visit on Sunday.

Police and other security forces have prevented...

Police and other security forces have prevented 81 terrorist attacks in Russia"s volatile North Caucasus this year, the head of the Federal Security Service said on Tuesday.

Police have arrested a 23-year-old man in...

Police have arrested a 23-year-old man in the Moscow region who is suspected of killing at least 13 people on commuter trains with the use of psychotropic substances.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticized...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticized Russia"s super-rich for their ostentatious spending habits, and urged them to use their wealth to benefit their country.

Protests in Kyrgyzstan will not lead to...

Protests in Kyrgyzstan will not lead to a civil war and the situation in the Central Asian state may normalize within a few days, the country"s first post-Soviet president, Askar Akayev, said on Thursday.

Russia and Ukraine should restore strong...

Russia and Ukraine should restore strong relations, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during a meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Kharkov, in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday.

Russia is fully committed to completing...

Russia is fully committed to completing the construction of Iran"s first nuclear power plant on schedule, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Thursday.

Russia is ready to import poultry from India...

Russia is ready to import poultry from India if the U.S. does not resume its supplies, Russian agriculture minister Yelena Skrynnik said on Friday after a meeting with her Indian counterpart.

Russian cosmonauts receive up to $150,000...

Russian cosmonauts receive up to $150,000 for a mission on board the International Space Station (ISS), a senior space official said Thursday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Ukrainian...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will meet next week to discuss bilateral cooperation, particularly in the gas sector.

Russia"s Ambassador to Ukraine, Mikhail...

Russia"s Ambassador to Ukraine, Mikhail Zurabov, who was appointed last August but remained in Russia in protest against Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko"s anti-Russian policies, will arrive in Kiev on January 25, Russia"s charge d"affaires in Kiev said on Friday.