Russia is developing a new naval strategy which envisions the creation of 5-6 aircraft carrier joint task groups by 2050-2060, the Navy commander said on Friday.

Russia will put its first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine through sea trials in the second half of 2008, the Russian Navy commander said on Friday.

Bulgaria's national intelligence chief wants restrictions on communist archives opening. German MEP showed secret police murders files on GDR fugitives shot in Bulgaria. Berlin daily backs Stasi investigation of staff following appearance of two ex-informants. Major Melnichenko speaks out again

President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech on the last day of the NATO summit in Bucharest. He said that Russia and NATO have some serious differences, warning that "the presence of a powerful military bloc on our borders" would be

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russian geologists intend to prove that the Sea of Okhotsk's central enclave, as well as all its other parts excluding a small piece in the south, belong to Russia, a Russian tabloid wrote Monday.

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's satellite navigation services market will be worth 160 billion rubles ($6.6 billion) by 2015, the general director of the Russian Institute of Radio Navigation said on Monday. Sergei Pisarev said Glonass users would

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russian and Polish deputy foreign ministers will meet on Tuesday in Moscow to discuss U.S. plans to deploy elements of its missile defense system in Poland, a Russian diplomatic source has said. "During the

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign debt calculated by international methodology increased 48% year-on-year in 2007 to $459.6 billion, the Central Bank said on Monday. Russia's foreign debt grew in the reporting period largely due to private-sector borrowing,

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's finance minister and first deputy prime minister, Alexei Kudrin, will visit Washington on April 10-13 for talks on IMF quota reform and sovereign wealth funds, a delegation source said on Monday. Kudrin will

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - A witness at the trial in absentia of former Yukos official Leonid Nevzlin, charged with organizing murders and attempted murders, said on Monday the accused paid a bribe to get Israeli citizenship. Youli Nudelman,

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow City Court ruled Monday that a probe in the Siberian city of Chita into a second set of charges against Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his ex-business partner Platon Lebedev was legal.

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russian authorities are to introduce a new date in the country's calendar - the Day of Married Love and Family Happiness - the chairwoman of the Federation Council's social and health committee said on

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - A police cordon has been removed from around two homes in central Russia where members of a doomsday sect have been staying since giving up their underground wait for the Apocalypse. Thirty-five members

Nearly 20 people have been bitten by ticks in the Krasnoyarsk Territory since the beginning of spring this year. 17 cases of tick bites have been registered in the region since the second March decade. Of those 8 cases are

A woman taxi firm owner suspected of kidnapping of a person was detained near Krasnoyarsk on April 5. As a source in the law machinery reported, police arrested two unemployed men, aged 30 and 35, having previous criminal records, who