MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed on Thursday Viktor Ivanov, a former presidential aide and FSB officer, as head of the federal drug control service, the Kremlin said. Since 1997 Ivanov, 58, has held various

BRUSSELS, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Yury Baluyevsky, chief of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, denied on Thursday reports of Moscow's plans to open an air force base in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia. "I do not know where

Russia is the number one country for the number of complaints filed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the RBK Daily newspaper reports.

Volgograd garrison Military-investigative department of the Investigative Directorate of the Russian Federation General Prosecutor's Office's Investigative Committee has confirmed a report information on bringing of a criminal case on fraud, committed by a group of persons, in relation to the