reported in January. Greipl, a helicopter pilot and engineer, was detained by German police in April 2007 and later admitted to divulging company documents,
PENZA, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian court has ruled that five doomsday sect members from Belarus be deported for violating Russia's visa regime, the court chairman said on Thursday. The five former cave dwellers, who emerged from their
GROZNY, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Two hundred military personnel from the Vostok special battalion in Chechnya have submitted early discharge requests, the Chechen president said on Thursday. The requests were submitted following earlier media reports of an alleged shootout
MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court rejected on Thursday a lawsuit filed by Russian opposition leader and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov in February against a pro-government youth movement. Kasparov claimed that the pro-Kremlin Nashi movement
The good thing about spring's arrival and the slog to summer - besides, of course, the start of snapper season is the fact that so much more interesting shit happens, so I don’t have to waste my space writing about
The Motley Crue era was not a shining moment in pop history. In that sense, Nikki makes a fitting narrator. This is literally a tale told by an idiot. Everything about it is stale, forced and second-hand.
There is something wrong in CelebrityLand. More and more often, the glossy rags, the tabloids, the blogs and entertainment TV shows I thrive upon have been featuring people I have never heard of.
The RF State Duma has approved amendments to the law on licensing certain activities. After the law is enforced, companies engaged in publishing software, databases, films and music will have to license their activity. According to lawyers the law has
Vimpelcom has announced the transaction it did not dare to conclude for two years: its Kazakh daughter company takes control over the Kirghiz mobile operator BiTel. Vimpelcom"s main competitor MTS paid $150 mln for the same company late in 2005
TRIPOLI, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's state natural gas giant Gazprom and the National Oil Corporation of Libya have agreed to set up a joint venture, Gazprom said. The deal came during President Vladimir Putin's visit to the north
NEW YORK, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - A two-day Russian art auction at Sotheby's in New York fetched $46.449 million, breaking several records for individual artists, as wealthy Russians turned out to buy into their cultural heritage. Russia's economic resurgence
KIEV, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday that Russia has been invited to start talks in June on the withdrawal of its fleet from the Crimea, but said Moscow has yet to reply to the
MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - The head of the Russian corporation overseeing the construction of sport and infrastructure facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics has resigned. Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Thursday he had signed a resolution to
