Deputy head of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology Sergey Pugachev will take part in the conference "Oil and Gas Equipment Standardization" (STANDARTNEFTEGAZ-2008) on May 20. Pugachev will tell about the current status and prospects of standardization in

GROZNY, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - Unidentified militants injured one serviceman in the center of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya in a grenade attack, a local police source said on Wednesday. "Six shots were fired from an RG-6 portable

The second stage of "Seven wonders of Russia" finished on April 29. "Solby" National Nature Reserve, which is situated in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, got into the superfinal, RIA Novosti reported. The winner of the superfinal is Elbrus, which outdid all

The body of a young woman was found on a grave at "Shinnikiv" cemetery in Leninsky district of Krasnoyarsk on April 29. The body was beheaded and charred, she looked aged between 17 and 25, the Krasnoyarsk Territory Investigation Directorate

MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Greece signed on Tuesday an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the construction and operation of the Greek section of the South Stream gas pipeline, the Kremlin press service said. The deal was

LUXEMBOURG, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will wait until the European Union is prepared to start talks on a new cooperation agreement, the Russian foreign minister said Tuesday. Lithuania blocked a mandate Tuesday on a new EU-Russia treaty, when

LUXEMBOURG, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will reduce the risks from the proposed deployment of a U.S. missile shield in Central Europe, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday after a meeting with his counterpart from Luxembourg. The U.S. is