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About 6 million St. George ribbons will...

About 6 million St. George ribbons will be distributed in Moscow, a RIA Novosti deputy chief editor said on Thursday.

A former Soviet hockey star and respected...

A former Soviet hockey star and respected sports expert said the Russian national squad has a better chance than the Canadians to win the 2010 Olympics ice hockey tournament.

After the end of the April 12-13 Nuclear...

After the end of the April 12-13 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Brookings Institute, a leading U.S. think tank.

A Moscow court has thrown out a slander...

A Moscow court has thrown out a slander claim by Russian brewers against the country"s top drug and alcohol control official over statements they say "demonize" beer.

A Proton-M carrier rocket has successfully...

A Proton-M carrier rocket has successfully orbited three Glonass satellites, a spokesman for the Space Forces said on Tuesday.

At least 51 people have died in mudslides...

At least 51 people have died in mudslides on Brazil"s southeast coast over the past three days, CNN said.

China seized 28.8 tons of drugs and arrested...

China seized 28.8 tons of drugs and arrested some 91,000 people, including 5,560 foreigners, on drug-related charges in 2009, Xinhua news agency reported.

CSKA Moscow emerge from their winter hibernation...

CSKA Moscow emerge from their winter hibernation on Wednesday as they face Sevilla in a Champions League last 16 first-leg tie in the snow-covered Russian capital.

Dutch speed skater Ireen Wust won gold medal...

Dutch speed skater Ireen Wust won gold medal in ladies" 1,500 m at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Canada"s Vancouver.

Finding the organizers of the terrorist...

Finding the organizers of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro is a matter of honor for the security agencies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said during questions at a conference on transport security on Tuesday.

Following the example of many Western countries...

Following the example of many Western countries, Russia has launched a program offering owners of old cars 50,000 rubles ($1,680) each for their vehicles" disposal in a bid to support Russia"s ailing car industry, a leading business daily reported on Tuesday.

Former KGB-agent-turned-tycoon Alexander...

Former KGB-agent-turned-tycoon Alexander Lebedev, the owner of three British newspapers, has offered to make his airlines, Red Wings, the backbone carrier in Russia"s North Caucasus region, a Russian daily said on Friday.

German auto giant Daimler AG is accused...

German auto giant Daimler AG is accused of paying some 5.02 million euros ($6.7 million) to Russian officials to accelerate the orders of more cars for government purposes, a respected Russian business daily said on Thursday.

Guus Hiddink will decide on his future with...

Guus Hiddink will decide on his future with the Russian national team after talks with the new president of Russian football"s governing body in February.

Guus Hiddink will meet with the new president...

Guus Hiddink will meet with the new president of Russian football"s governing body in the next few days, a top Russian Football Union (RFU) official said.

Heads of the largest transnational corporations...

Heads of the largest transnational corporations operating in Russia will sign on Wednesday an obligation not to bribe Russian officials, Russian business daily Vedomosti said on Tuesday.

More than 2,500 RIA Novosti readers have...

More than 2,500 RIA Novosti readers have sent messages of support for the Polish people in the aftermath of the death of their president in a plane crash in western Russia on April 10.

MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - Spacecraft...

MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - Spacecraft manufacturer Energiya said Thursday that its new digitally-controlled Soyuz TMA vehicles will be used to extract lunar reserves of helium-3

MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Admiral Panteleyev missile destroyer has detained a boat carrying 29 suspected pirates off the Somali coast, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - President...

MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - President of Russia Vladimir Putin congratulated the Khrunichev state research and production space center with the 90th anniversary of its establishment, the presidential press office said Sunday.

MOSCOW, April 9 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S. warship...

MOSCOW, April 9 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S. warship arrived in Somali waters on Thursday to assist in freeing a captain seized by Somali pirates after a hijack attempt failed when the ship's unarmed crew fought back.

MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Defense Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that the hijackers of the Arctic Sea did demand a ransom to release the cargo ship, which was found and freed by a Russian warship on Monday.

MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian international Roman Pavlyuchenko is ready to quit Tottenham Hotspur to keep his international career alive, the forward has told Sport Express.

MOSCOW, August 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...

MOSCOW, August 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian court has formally impounded the Finnish-owned Arctic Sea merchant vessel, which was allegedly seized by hijackers and freed by the Russian Navy, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, August 27 (RIA Novosti) - Arctic...

MOSCOW, August 27 (RIA Novosti) - Arctic sea ice has shrunk to its second lowest level since the start of satellite observations of the territory, and could melt further to exceed the 2007 record, a U.S. research group said.

MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - The International...

MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - The International Space Station will be dismantled after 2015 to be replaced with a new orbital station, a Russian Space Agency official said Tuesday.

MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - Anatoly...

MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - Anatoly Byshovets was appointed Tuesday head coach of Russia's soccer club Lokomotiv Moscow, one of Russia's oldest and most famous clubs, a club official said.

MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian...

MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Pacific Fleet's Admiral Vinogradov destroyer and India's Tabar missile frigate have practiced joint anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast, the Russian Navy spokesman said on Monday.

MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - FC Moskva"s...

MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - FC Moskva"s Belarusian keeper Yury Zhevnov is not convinced that the club, currently in second place in the Russian Premier League, can lift the title.

MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Dynamo Moscow...

MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Dynamo Moscow will have to overcome Scottish club Celtic to reach the final playoff round for the 2009/10 Champions League.

MOSCOW, July 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, July 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Kruzenshtern sailing ship has concluded its participation in an international regatta of tall ships, and is currently heading for Iceland"s capital Reykjavik.

MOSCOW, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Proton collisions...

MOSCOW, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Proton collisions at the world's most powerful particle accelerator that some theorists say could create matter-consuming black holes should not be expected until the fall, a Russian physicist said Tuesday.

MOSCOW, March 26 (RIA Novosti) - The board...

MOSCOW, March 26 (RIA Novosti) - The board of directors of Russia's flagship air carrier Aeroflot on Thursday accepted the resignation of CEO Valery Okulov and appointed Vitaly Savelyev as the company's new head, a source said.

MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Former CSKA...

MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Former CSKA trainer Valery Gazzayev has signed a three-year contract to manage the new Ukrainian champions Dynamo Kiev, the club said on its website.

MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti) - A Soyuz-U...

MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti) - A Soyuz-U rocket carrying a Kosmos-class military satellite has lifted off from the Plesetsk space center in the north of Russia.

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Iran...

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Iran will launch a low orbiting research satellite in cooperation with an Italian company in 2011, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Central Bank has cut its investment in bonds with U.S. mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from $65.6 billion to $20.9 billion as of November 1, the bank"s chairman said on Wednesday."The amount of Bank of Russia investments has decreased as the securities have been repaid," Sergei Ignatyev said, speaking in Russia"s lower house of parliament. The banker said the U.S. Treasury move that saw both mortgage agencies come under U.S. government conservatorship in September 2008 guaranteed that they would honor their financial commitments. The Central Bank was not currently selling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds, nor had it signed any new deals with either of the two mortgage financiers, Ignatyev said. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin earlier said bonds held by the Central Bank in the two U.S. mortgage giants yielded over $1 billion in the first half of 2008. The U.S. government-sponsored firms, which together own or guarantee $5 trillion in U.S. mortgage debt or almost 40% of the market, were taken over by a federal regulator early in September to prevent their possible collapse amid the growing credit crunch. Freddie Mac, the second-largest U.S. residential mortgage financier, asked the U.S. Treasury last Friday to provide $13.8 billion after posting third-quarter losses of $25.3 billion.

MOSCOW, November 5 (RIA Novosti) - Rubin...

MOSCOW, November 5 (RIA Novosti) - Rubin Kazan"s recent Champion League success will aid the development of the Russian game, the club"s manager said after his team"s 0-0 draw with Barcelona.

MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - The European...

MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will re-launch its particle accelerator, which has been out of operation since last year, in November, the body"s director general said.

MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...

MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian Pacific Fleet task force that has been on anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden is to pay an official visit to the port of Klang in Malaysia, a spokesman for the Russian Navy said.

MOSCOW, October 24 (RIA Novosti) - Spartak...

MOSCOW, October 24 (RIA Novosti) - Spartak Moscow visit Khimki on Saturday hoping to return to the place that was theirs almost by right in the late 1990s - the top of the Russian Premier League.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Marianna Belenkaya) - On August 20, Turkey will elect president. There is only one nominee for this position - spokesman for the Islamic-oriented Justice and Development Party (JDP) and current Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul.

MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - The Discovery shuttle has successfully landed at the Edwards Air Force Base in California after being unable to touch down in Florida due to bad weather, NASA said.

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - The Bank of New York Mellon is near a deal to settle a $22.5 billion money laundering suit brought by Russia after the bank offered to restart trade-finance lending once the suit is resolved, The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday citing people close to the talks.

MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - Maltese...

MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - Maltese investigators are expected on board the Arctic Sea cargo vessel as part of the ongoing probe into the disappearance and seizure of the ship, Russia"s foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW. (Yuri Zaitsev for RIA Novosti) -...

MOSCOW. (Yuri Zaitsev for RIA Novosti) - Yuri Solomonov, director and general designer of the Moscow-based Institute of Heat Engineering, said his institute could start work on the Ishim air-launched space system by July 1, 2007.

MOSCOW. (Yury Zaitsev for RIA Novosti) -...

MOSCOW. (Yury Zaitsev for RIA Novosti) - Colonel General Vladimir Popovkin, commander of the Russian Space Force, told a news conference that the national satellite cluster lacked a spacecraft capable of preventing an asteroid strike.

NATO has refused to set up a Russia-NATO...

NATO has refused to set up a Russia-NATO working group on Afghanistan and will not allow Moscow to participate in its internal discussion of the situation, Russia"s NATO envoy said on Tuesday.

On April 16 at 10 a.m. Moscow time, RIA...

On April 16 at 10 a.m. Moscow time, RIA news agency will host a press conference "Lessons from the International Experience in Sports Marketing and Consulting for the Improvement of the Russian Sporting Sector"

Popping outside to move the car to a different...

Popping outside to move the car to a different parking space is something most of us do without a second thought, but on Thursday it will be a major endeavor for Maxim Surayev.

Romania"s top national security body has...

Romania"s top national security body has approved a plan to replace Soviet-made MiG-21 LanceR fighters with second-hand U.S. F-16 Falcon jets, the president"s office said on its website on Wednesday.

Roman Pavlyuchenko was no closer to his...

Roman Pavlyuchenko was no closer to his desired move away from Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday evening after his agent"s talks with the club"s chairman failed to produce any clear results.

Russia and China have agreed that Russia"s...

Russia and China have agreed that Russia"s part of work to build the second stage of the Tianwan nuclear power plant (NPP) will cost 1.3 billion euros ($1.8 bln), a source close to negotiations said.

Russia hopes that the Guinean government...

Russia hopes that the Guinean government will help ensure the security of a plant run by Russian aluminum giant RusAl that has been hit by recent militant attacks, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Russia may raise oil export duty on its...

Russia may raise oil export duty on its Urals blend from the current $253.6 to $268.9 per metric ton from March 1, following trends on global oil markets, a Finance Ministry official said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama agreed on Wednesday to order the speedy completion of a new strategic arms reduction deal, the Kremlin said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday the results of presidential elections in Ukraine reflected a desire to improve ties with Russia.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday identified the central planks of the country"s economic development in the next two years, putting the emphasis on maintaining macroeconomic stability and balancing the budget.

Russians have shown more enthusiasm for...

Russians have shown more enthusiasm for savings accounts in 2010 than they did last year, a report published on Friday revealed.

Russia"s federal budget deficit will not...

Russia"s federal budget deficit will not exceed 7% of GDP in 2010, staying within the projected figure of 6.8% for the year, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Thursday.

Russia"s GDP decrease in 2009 will exceed...

Russia"s GDP decrease in 2009 will exceed the forecasted earlier figure of 8.5%, the Russian finance minister said on Wednesday.

Russia"s position at negotiations on a 2010...

Russia"s position at negotiations on a 2010 agreement for oil deliveries to Belarus is seriously undermining the new Customs Union between Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, a Belarusian government source said on Saturday.

Russia"s Union of Journalists on Wednesday...

Russia"s Union of Journalists on Wednesday gave its support for a RIA Novosti photo correspondent fined by a court on the charges of participating in an unsanctioned opposition meeting.

Russia"s women curling team lost 4-6 to...

Russia"s women curling team lost 4-6 to the United States on the eighth day of the Olympics in Vancouver, handing the Americans their first win in the competition after three defeats.

Swiss freestyler Michael Schmid brought...

Swiss freestyler Michael Schmid brought his country fifth gold medal of the 2010 Olympic Games in Canada"s Vancouver after winning in men"s Ski Cross.

Switzerland"s decision to ban the construction...

Switzerland"s decision to ban the construction of mosque minarets has sparked criticism from politicians and religious figures worldwide.

The Large Hadron Collider set a new world...

The Large Hadron Collider set a new world record on Monday, accelerating its twin beams of protons to unprecedented energy levels, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on its website.

The Moscow government has approved the holding...

The Moscow government has approved the holding of a stage of the world freestyle motocross competition series on Red Square in June 2010, a city official told RIA Novosti on Friday.

The NASA Endeavour space shuttle has successfully...

The NASA Endeavour space shuttle has successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said on its website on Wednesday.

The number of Russians who have savings...

The number of Russians who have savings accounts has decreased to 24% from 31% in the past four months with fewer people saving money in rubles, an opinion poll carried out by the Russia Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) showed.

The Russian Hockey Federation has published...

The Russian Hockey Federation has published its preliminary list of players for the 2010 national Olympic team, which consists of 14 players from the National Hockey League (NHL) and nine from the Continental Hockey League (KHL).

The U.S. is concerned by the detention of...

The U.S. is concerned by the detention of human rights activists, who gathered for an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow on Sunday, a spokesman for the Department of State said.

Tottenham Hotspur striker Roman Pavlyuchenko...

Tottenham Hotspur striker Roman Pavlyuchenko could sign for Turkish club Galatasaray in the next 48 hours, the Fotomac website said on Friday.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a two-day working visit to Moscow on Tuesday to discuss economic cooperation, primarily joint energy projects, the Turkish government said on Monday.

Two F-5 Tiger fighter jets crashed into...

Two F-5 Tiger fighter jets crashed into a mountain in eastern South Korea during a routine training flight on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported.

U.S. boxer Eddie Chambers has promised to...

U.S. boxer Eddie Chambers has promised to grab all three heavyweight champion belts from Ukraine"s Wladimir Klitschko and bring them home after the March 20 bout in Germany"s Dusseldorf.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said ahead of her upcoming visit to Moscow she expected the replacement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 1) to be signed soon.

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Yemeni security forces have detained a top...

Yemeni security forces have detained a top commander of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen Observer newspaper reported on Tuesday.