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South Ossetia has appealed to its ally Russia for military aid in violent fighting with Georgian troops who surrounded the capital Friday.
"Heavy fighting in and around Tskhinvali is ongoing," the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee reported. "The people of South Ossetia request the president and the...
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Two people were killed and at least three injured by an explosion on the beach in the Olympic host town of Sochi along the Black Sea, Russian agencies reported.
"At 10:35 am an unidentified device exploded at Loo beach, two people were killed," the head of the city's emergency situations ministry, Anatoly Sherbinin, was...
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Two people died in an explosion on a tourist beach in the Olympic host city of Sochi, drawing a strong reaction from authorities, Russian news agencies reported.
"At 10:35 am (0600 GMT) an unidentified device exploded at Loo beach, two people were killed and 13 injured including an 8-year-old girl," Interfax quoted an...
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Dissident Soviet writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn
was laid to rest with a three-gun salute on Wednesday in a service
attended by President Dmitry Medvedev at Moscow's 16th-century Donskoy
Monastery. The funeral procession of several hundred was led by goose- stepping guards, who carried a black-and-white portrait of Rusia's literary...
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Two Russian submersibles plumbed the depths of
Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia on Tuesday, diving a record 1,680 metres
(5,512 feet) in one of the world's largest lakes. 'It is a
world record for deep-water submersion in fresh water,' an organizer
told news agencies Itar-Tass on the barge fielding expedition that was
to last...
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano met with
Russia's ruling duo president Dmitry Medvedev and Premier Vladimir
Putin in Moscow Wednesday for talks a Kremlin spokesman said would
focus on international diplomacy, as Italy assumes the G8 presidency
next year. 'In the discussions on international affairs,
particular attention was...
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 Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in Wednesday as Russian president
by his powerful mentor, Vladimir Putin, AFP reports. The inauguration of Russia’s new
president took place at midday in the Andreyevsky hall of the Kremlin palace.
The question is whether the 55-year-old ex-KGB officer, who
led Russia
for eight years, is willing to...
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 President Vladimir Putin is expected to remain Russia’s
predominant political figure, as he accepted the leadership of the dominant
United Russia party. Nearly 600 party delegates at Tuesday’s congress approved
his candidacy in unanimous vote. The position secures his power and Putin, 55,
will be able to maintain his influence after...
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 Russia’s Election Commission disqualified a former prime
minister from the March 2 presidential election, claiming many of the signatures
of support submitted were not valid.
The Election Commission has announced its refusal to register Mikhail Kasyanov, an ardent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, EuroNews.net reported...
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Russian prosecutors have opened an investigation which is expected to
disqualify presidential opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov for
allegedly forging the signatures he needed to run, Interfax news agency
reported Tuesday.
Former prime minister Kasyanov said any move to block his joining the ballot was a case of "political...
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 Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday he would become prime
minister if his hand-picked successor Dmitry Medvedev was elected in
his stead - setting a blueprint for power when his term ends in 2008.
"If citizens give a vote of confidence to Medvedev and elect him
Russia's president, I will be ready to lead the...
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 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed Britain Friday for
knowingly "violating international law," as Russia ordered British
Council offices across Russia to close.
Anglo-Russian relations have sunk to Cold War lows after Moscow
refused to extradite an ex-KGB bodyguard suspected of murdering Kremlin
critic...
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 Dissident and former chess champion Garry Kasparov has been prevented
from standing as a candidate in Russia's presidential vote, his
spokeswoman said Thursday.
Kasparov's beleaguered opposition coalition the Other Russia was
repeatedly blocked by authorities from finding a venue in which to hold
a congress to nominate him, Maria...
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 Russia on Wednesday suspended participation in a key Cold War treaty
limiting armed forces in Europe amid mounting East-West security
tensions.
Russia has suspended all activities towards observing the treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) since midnight on December
12, The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a...
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 Dmitry Medvedev, the most likely successor to the Kremlin presidency,
called on President Vladimir Putin Tuesday to become prime minister,
resolving months of uncertainty over Russia's future power
constellation.
"I declare my readiness to stand as candidate for the presidential
elections, and I consider it crucial for our...
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 President Vladimir Putin upheld the candidature of First Deputy Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday to succeed him in office when his
presidency ends in March.
Putin meeting with party leaders Monday, including United Russia
which won by a landslide in the recent parliamentary election, said he
"fully and completely...
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 Former Russian premier Mikhail Kasyanov was nominated Saturday to run
as a candidate in the March 2008 presidential elections, Echo Moskwy
radio reported.
Kasyanov, 50, who had served as premier from 2000 to 2004 before
falling into disfavour with President Vladimir Putin, was nominated at
a congress of a citizens' voter...
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 According to exit polls conducted by Russian
state-controlled companies, President Vladimir Putin's party winning more than
60 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
The vote projections were released Sunday evening by Russian
media, just minutes after the last polling stations closed in the Baltic
enclave of Kaliningrad....
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 Celebrated opposition figure and ex-chess champion Garry Kasparov was
released from jail Thursday after serving five days for his role in
protest marches ahead of Russia's parliamentary elections.
"His arrest is representative of the violence to normal human
rights occurring in Russia today," Kasparov's spokeswoman...
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 According to recent reports, President Vladimir Putin has
launched an attack on the west and Russia's marginalized political opposition,
accusing them of plotting together to weaken the country and return it to the
chaos and thievery of the 1990s.
On Wednesday, at a Moscow rally of 5,000 supporters that was
a centrepiece of...
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 Russian President Vladimir Putin told an audience of ardent supporters
Wednesday that the main challenge faced by the nation going into the
December 2 parliamentary elections was "to ensure the continuity" of
the current policy course.
"We should do everything possible to resolve this problem ... that
it is...
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 Andrei Lugovoi , a former KGB spy accused of murdering the
Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko made a surprise public announcement in
which he stated his wish to candidate for the Kremlin-supporting ultra-nationalist
Liberal Democratic party.
This new path he has chosen in a political career has
already begun to take...
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 Russia is voting for a
new prime minister on Friday, Viktor Zubkov, financial adviser and Russia’s
lower house president’s nominee.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has surprised the government and nominated
little known Zubkov, 65 for premier on Wednesday, three months before
parliamentary and six months before presidential...
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 United States President George W Bush and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski reiterated Monday their plans to build a missile defence system in Europe.The defence system would have two components placed in Poland and the Czech Republic, being designed to provide protection against a possible long-range missile attack from nuclear...
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 After months of arguments with Western powers, Russia pulled out of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) on Saturday.The suspension comes in a time when relation between Kremlin and Washington are very strained, pressure mounting with each controversial decision like this one. Moscow said the decision was forced by...
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 The US missile defence system that due to be built in Central Europe will create a chasm between Russia and the old continent, first deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov warned.Russia is a bitter opponent of US’ plans to deploy troops in Europe and tries to avoid this measure by pledging to cooperate with Washington over the controversial...
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 Six years ago, extravagant Swiss-born millionaire Bernard
Weber initiated the New7Wonders campaign, amid criticism from experts and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
People all around the globe were supposed to cast their votes
through the internet or cell phone text message for the new seven...
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 Even if President Vladimir Putin met with his American counterpart George Bush, Kremlin doesn’t hold back on new threats aimed at Poland and the Czech Republic.Russian first deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov veiledly threaten Moscow will direct its missiles towards the two Central European countries if a US missile defence system is...
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 Kosovo will have to wait another four months in order to find out its political status after Russia and Serbia strongly opposed the draft proposed by the United Nations.UN members are currently trying to work out a compromise solution that would finally resolve Kosovo’s identity crisis. The Security Council is considering a new round of...
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 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday that Russia’s proposal to grant access for the US to a radar station in Azerbaijan would not solve the problem of defending Europe from an eventual long-range missile attack.Gates said the Gabala radar station doesn’t have the same features as a defence system build by Americans in Central...
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 Russia isn’t satisfied anymore with the limits imposed by the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and wants to change the document, already establishing a meeting of the 30 nations that adhered to the pact.The gathering is scheduled to take place Tuesday in Vienna and will again raise controversies regarding military...
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 When everyone thought reconciliation talks between Russia and the US were heading to another dead end, Vladimir Putin pulled his trump card out of the sleeve and proposed Bush a compromise solution to the long-disputed missile defence system issue. Putin said he is willing to share the Gabala Radar Station located in Azerbaijan, a system...
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 The Kremlin government doesn’t want to accept the United States plans to build a missile defence system in Europe and once again showed its indignation towards Washington’s ideas. After Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to aim Russia’s missiles towards Europe if the US plan is accepted, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took the...
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 Litvinenko's widow, Marina Litvinenko, has rejected accusations that her late husband was a MI-6 agent. She called the allegations "nonsense." "Nobody could be happy with this," she says, quoted by BBC. She was talking about Russia's constitution which forbids it from extraditing its own citizens. "I am...
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According to a Polish official, the US
missile defence system could not be built in the country if the plan presented
by the American side doesn’t suit Poland’s
demands.
”If the American
conditions will be unacceptable - there won't be a shield. It is not the case
that this is a foregone conclusion that the shield will be...
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 The Serbian breakaway province Kosovo receives more and more support in its initiative to become independent from motherland Serbia, as the United States expressed its belief that “Kosovo independence is inevitable.”Through the voice of the US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States showed once more support for Kosovo’s...
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 "Today, I'm ready to make a statement that must shed light on this dark political story (the murder of Litvinenko)," Lugovoi told a news conference in Moscow on Thursday, "British secret services and their agents - Berezovsky and late Litvinenko - played the main role in it," ITAR-TASS reported.Lugovoi alleges...
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 The Russian army added Tuesday two new missiles to its defence
system, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov announcing the tests of an
intercontinental ballistic missile and an short range rocket.
Russia’s
army tested Tuesday the RS-24 thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile and
the short range Iskander-M missile,...
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 Relations between Russia and the European Union remain tense after the Kremlin administration showed it’s not willing to make any concessions towards US plans to build a missile defence system in Europe.The conclusion was revealed during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Austria’s capital Vienna. The high dignitary...
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