MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign minister is due to arrive in Kazakhstan on Wednesday to meet with the country's president and foreign minister, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said. During the three-day visit, Sergei Lavrov is due

MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Police in the Republic of Udmurtia, central Russia, detained two suspected drug dealers and seized more than 32 kg (70 lbs) of heroin, a police source said on Wednesday. The source said that officers

MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - A police officer was killed and another was injured during a special operation in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a local law enforcement source said on Wednesday. Police discovered a militant holed

MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Armed Forces will total 1 million servicemen, including 150,000 officers by 2012, the defense minister said on Tuesday. Russia has already downsized its Armed Forces from 4.5 million in the Soviet era

MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russian strategic bombers have successfully completed a series of large-scale, week-long exercises, the Long-Range Aviation commander said on Tuesday. The drills, part of the Stability 2008 strategic command and staff exercises, were conducted on

Adds autopsy report in para 10) MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - The world of Russian ice hockey was in mourning on Tuesday after the death of one of its brightest young talents. Alexander Cherepanov collapsed on Monday on the

MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - French police have opened a criminal case into an attempted poisoning of Russia's leading human rights lawyer, the representative of murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya said Tuesday. Karina Moskalenko, 54, who is also a

MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - A newly-wed man in Russia's Volga republic of Urdmurtia fatally stabbed his bride with a kitchen knife on their wedding night, local investigators said on Tuesday. After the wedding ceremony in the Sarapulsky District

MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia started talks with Iceland on Tuesday on granting a 4 billion euro ($5.4 billion) loan to help the Nordic country through its financial woes, the Russian Finance Ministry said. The delegation arrived in

MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - Talks on the Georgia conflict in Geneva this week will produce no meaningful results if officials from breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia do not participate, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. The

GORKI (Moscow Region), October 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday he was promoting Regional Development Minister Dmitry Kozak to deputy prime minister in charge of preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Kozak will be

Family members of over 15 Ukrainians held hostage by Somali pirates for more than two weeks have gathered outside the offices of the Ukrainian president, the Unian news agency reported on Monday.