Four last fires in the forests in the Amur region and the Primorsky territory on an area of more than 500 hectares were put down on Sunday. For the first time from the beginning of the fire-prone season no forest
Russian Athletics News. Irina Timofeyeva won today's Hamburg marathon setting the personal best and the marathon record of 2:24:14. Kenia's Pamela Chepchumba run up with 2:28:36 and Ethiopia's Ashagigi Roba was third clocking 2:29:28. Another Russian Olga Rosseyeva finished eighth
Russian Athletics News. Ilya Markov finished second over the men's 10km RW at the Grand Prix of Mortalaz meeting clocking 39:57 in Spanish Madrid. The winner was Francisco Fernandez from Spain with 38:28
Russian Athletics News. Some World Athletics stars have confirmed their participation in 50th Znamensky Memorial, a European Premium Outdoor Meeting, in Zhukovsky on 15 June. Famous Kenyan athletes Moses Mosop and Leonard Komon will run 5000m, Georgiy and Serafim Znamensky's
Russian Athletics News. Russian Athletics Federation took decision to disqualify hammer throwers Tatyana Lysenko and Yekaterina Khoroshikh for two years, the federation's president and IAAF Council member Valentin Balakhnichov told the All Sports agency
Adds Georgian PM comments in paras 7-9) MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Defense Ministry issued a stern warning to Georgia on Tuesday over its actions in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and pledged to deploy more Russian peacekeepers in
THE HAGUE, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Viktor Zubkov said on Tuesday he could head Gazprom's board of directors after he steps down as Russian prime minister next month. "My name has been included in the list of candidates for
Chairman of the board of OJSC "Gazprom" had a working meeting with Total CEO Christoph de Margerie and StatoilHydro CEO and President Helge Lund in the company’s headquarters today. The parties discussed the status of Shtokman Phase I and noted
The agents of the National Security Ministry of Azerbaijan together with local police held a joint operation in Abu Bakr Mosque and confiscated a lot of banned religious books, mostly in Arabic, daily newspaper Yeni Musavat reported. Jeyhun Mammadov, head
KHABAROVSK, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - The second leg of an oil pipeline being built from East Siberia to the Pacific is to be rerouted north of Khabarovsk bypassing the city's water protection area, a local government spokesman said Tuesday.
The Krasnoyarsk Territory is not ready for the forthcoming beach season. The main reason is that 90% of the beaches do not belong to the state-owned institutions which could follow their state. It was announced at the meeting of the
A criminal case was opened on the death of a 15-year-old girl of Barnaul, who was having a course of treatment in children resort "Shira Lake". The decision was made by Shirinsky Interdistrict Investigation Department of Russian Prosecutor's Office on
Alexander Akimov, deputy head of the Federal Forestry Agency, arrived in Krasnoyarsk on a working visit. The goal of his visit was to check up the preparedness of the Krasnoyarsk Territory for forest fire season, the Krasnoyarsk Department of Natural
