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MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti) - The number...

MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti) - The number of registered subscribers to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev"s video blog on the Kremlin website has passed the 20,000 mark, site moderators said Monday. Over 5,000 visitors have left comments at www.blog.kremlin.ru, with a total of 14,500 comments published since January 12, when subscribers first had the opportunity to leave their comments on the president"s video posts. In late April, Medvedev also posted his first video blog on the LiveJournal.com website in the form of a social networking community at http://community.livejournal.com/blog_medvedev/, which runs in tandem with his web blog on the Kremlin site. Comments by Internet users are moderated and are not published if they are found to contain abusive or discriminatory language.

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.

The Russian Armed Forces will be fully equipped...

The Russian Armed Forces will be fully equipped with a new-generation mobile command-and-control system by 2012, an industry expert said Monday.