Russian Olympic Committee head Leonid Tyagachev resigned on Wednesday, two days after President Dmitry Medvedev said senior sports officials should quit over the country"s poor showing at the Winter Olympics.
Russia"s new short-range gun and missile air defense systems will take part in a Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow on May 9, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
GROZNY, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has held talks with the Council of Europe"s commissioner for human rights, the presidential press service said on Wednesday.