MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - An Orthodox church in Moscow held a service on Thursday attended by the U.S. ambassador and senior Russian officials to mark the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the U.S. Reverend Archimandrite Zacchaeus,

MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers that landed in Venezuela on Wednesday are expected to return home on September 15, Russia's Air Force said on Thursday. (Russian strategic bombers - Photos) "Their return has

VLADIVOSTOK, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - More than 1 million chum salmon died in the Amur River and its tributaries during this year's spawning season, scientists said Thursday. The Amur River flows for more than 2,800 km, much of it

MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - A mere 113 Welsh fans witnessed their side lose 2-1 to Russia in a World Cup qualifier on Wednesday evening, Sport Express reported on Thursday. The game, which took place in the 30,000-capacity Cherkizovo

WARSAW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will continue talks with Warsaw on the deployment of elements of a U.S. missile shield in Poland, the Russian foreign minister said on Thursday. "The [Polish foreign] minister said that Poland is ready

MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - The United States is ready to restart missile-defense talks with Russia later this month, the U.S. ambassador to Russia said on Thursday. "We are ready to resume such talks later this month," John Beyrle

MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that Russia would make the modernization of its armed forces a priority in light of the recent military conflict with Georgia. "We must now focus on rearming the armed

SOCHI, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is not considering the possibility of letting South Ossetia, recently recognized as an independent state by Moscow, become a part of the country, the prime minister said Thursday. Earlier in the day, South

MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign minister said on Thursday he will soon visit the two Georgian breakaway regions recently recognized by Russia to discuss the opening of diplomatic missions there. "I plan to visit Abkhazia and South

MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry condemned on Thursday the recent terrorist attack in Lebanon, in which a senior pro-Syrian politician was killed, and called for measures to prevent arms supplies to the country's militias. Saleh Aridi

On the surface, it appears that Armenia and Turkey, whose trenchant relations stand out as the most bitter in the Southern Caucasus, are now making gestures of reconciliation toward one another, precisely by holding a soccer match between their teams.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev tried to soothe Russia's falling stock market, while taking a jab at the United States.

A Russian blogger has analyzed an interview of a Russian company commander, who was wounded in the war over South Ossetia. Russian troops, he finds, were on South Ossetian soil before Georgia began shelling Tskhinvali.

The dpartment on struggle against economic crimes and corruption in Aktyubinsk area has brought a criminal case against an officer of the main directorate of specialized protection service of the Aktyubinsk area, accused of fraud, news agency Kazinform reports from

Russian Athletics News. Tatyana Lebedeva won the women's triple jump at the 44th Palio Citta della Quercia athletics meeting held in Rovereto, Italy. She jumped 14.85m. Svetlana Shkolina won the women's high jump clearing 1.91m