MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - With both confidence and expectations high after their unexpected success at Euro 2008, Russia kick off their World Cup 2010 qualifying campaign with a match against Wales in Moscow on Wednesday evening. Russia, managed

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has started official testing of its modernized A-50M Mainstay AWACS aircraft for the country's Air Force, a Russian electronics company said Wednesday. The A-50 Mainstay is a Russian airborne warning and control system

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the Georgian president had not yet given assurances that his country would not attack South Ossetia or Abkhazia. Sergei Lavrov said such a guarantee, a precondition for

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia deployed weaponry imported from 14 countries in its recent war with Russia over South Ossetia, Russia's chief military prosecutor said on Wednesday. Georgia attacked South Ossetia on August 8 in an attempt to

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has removed the first deputy prime ministers from a list of officials permitted to use private planes, the Kommersant newspaper said on Wednesday. In Russia only the president, prime minister,

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian women's tennis squad was voted the favorites to win the 2008 Fed Cup final against Spain on September 13-14 in Madrid, the tournament's website said. The poll conducted by the tournament's official

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Defense Ministry has ordered a large number of new-generation unmanned reconnaissance drones to be put in service in the next few years, a Russian electronics company said on Wednesday. "Several dozen Tipchak UAV

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Bells from Moscow's St. Daniel's Monastery belfry returned to the Russian capital on Wednesday after chiming for nearly 80 years in the United States, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. The bells will be put

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - North Korea and South Korea battled to a 1-1 draw on Wednesday in one of the more eye-catching, albeit not for purely sporting reasons, fixtures in the latest round of World Cup qualifiers. The

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers have landed at a military airfield in Venezuela, Russia's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The Tu-160 Blackjack is a supersonic, variable-geometry heavy bomber, designed to strike strategic targets

MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia started their World Cup 2010 qualifying campaign with a 2-1 win against Wales in Moscow on Wednesday evening, but left it late to claim all three points. The match, played in the pouring

NAZRAN, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - A cousin of Ingush President Murat Zyazikov, was shot dead in the republic's largest city on Wednesday, a source in the republic's Interior Ministry said. Bekhan Zyazikov's Mercedes car came under gunfire in downtown

Los Angeles Times - The Venezuelan government announced Sunday that four Russian naval vessels will participate in joint exercises in the Caribbean this year, a move that could heighten already strained relations between Washington and Moscow.

At the end of August, Magomed Yevloyev, the most vocal oppositionist of the government in the volatile Russian region of Ingushetia, was shot dead whilst in police custody - inside a police car. This act, a severe yet botched-up case

The recent crisis between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia has created speculation over possible further eruptions over the "frozen conflict" territories of the former Soviet Union, namely the regions of Transnistria and Nagorno-Karabakh. However, instead of continuing the recent

Oleg Kozyrev comments on a debacle on Russian state television, where a magic trick broadcast the words "KNIFE MUNICH PUTIN" to millions of Russians. Exclusive translation by theotherrussia.org.