The Russian Pacific Fleet"s Udaloy class missile destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov started escorting 15 civilian vessels through the Gulf of Aden near the Somali coast on Monday to protect the ships from pirates, a Russian Navy spokesman said.
MOSCOW, July 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is to have its own pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 which is due to run from May 1 - October 31, 2010, a spokesman for the operator the All-Russia Exhibition Center said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed the hope on Tuesday that Ukraine"s next president will not play politics with relations between Kiev and Moscow.