MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia continued its growing global dominance of women's tennis beating Spain in Madrid to win the Fed Cup champions title, the fourth time since 2004, on Sunday. The Russian squad, led by coach Shamil

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - It would be "senseless" to try and pressure Russia by imposing sanctions on the country, the Russian president said on Monday during a meeting in Moscow with local businessmen. "I believe some of the

SEVASTOPOL, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia could build up its presence in the Mediterranean to make up for the loss of its naval base in Ukraine's port of Sevastopol, a Black Sea Fleet official said on Monday. "Undoubtedly, the

Adds new return date to Russia in paras 8-9) MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers that landed in Venezuela last week will carry out a patrol mission over the Caribbean on Monday, a Russian

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Finance Ministry has set October 15 as a deadline for claims to exchange Soviet-era commercial debts for Eurobonds. It said creditors may file claims for the third U.S.S.R. debt swap in modern Russian

VLADIVOSTOK, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russian border guards have rescued 19 North Korean fishermen caught in a storm in the Sea of Japan, a spokeswoman for the border guards said Monday. "Late on Sunday Russian border guards spotted a

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - A second-minute goal by former Tottenham Hotspur player Sergei Rebrov was enough to give Rubin FC all three points in their top-of-the-table clash with Dynamo Moscow on Sunday. The win in Kazan, the capital

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian TV company that airs South Park has seen its popularity rocket since prosecutors issued a warning over the content of the popular adult cartoon, the head of the company said on Monday.

KALININGRAD, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Baltic Fleet has launched a week-long scheduled exercise, the navy press service said on Monday. It said the exercise, which will last through September 22, involves over 20 warships and more than 10

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Two men died and over 10 were injured during a mass brawl between Uzbek workers and Russians in the Moscow Region, a local police spokesman said on Monday. He said the clash started at

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Aeroflot has so far paid over 4.8 million rubles ($186,770) in compensation to the families of those people killed in Sunday's air crash in the Urals, the head of the company's insurance department said

Foreign participants of the meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev within the framework of the Valdai discussion club's annual conference were generally satisfied with their encounter with the president, discrediting a report in Saturday's Kommersant daily that Medvedev talked solely about

Following a fiasco of an attempt to re-establish the territorial integrity of his country, Mikheil Saakashvili seems unlikely to be able to hold on to his presidential post for much longer, as even Westerners start admitting that he has done

The launch of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland last week was of great significance to the world's scientific community, but it also bore special meaning for Russia, as the project is, in many ways, the product of vast Soviet

The training ship Perekop of the Baltic Fleet completed the second and final stage of her long distance sea and ocean cruise around Europe and arrived to the port of Baltiysk - the main naval base of the Baltic Fleet.