MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - Almost all the refugees who fled South Ossetia during Georgia's attack on the republic have returned, and the situation in the province is stabilizing, the Russian prime minister said Tuesday. "The situation is, on

MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is to speed up the construction of a new gas pipeline to the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, Russia's deputy energy minister said Tuesday. "We are targeting June 2009 as the completion date," Vyatcheslav

MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's 2004 and 2008 Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has been nominated for the 2008 Waterford Crystal European Athlete of the Year Trophy. The 26-year-old Russian, who has broken the world pole vault

MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Prosecutor General's Office will on Wednesday start checking the compliance of Russian flagship air carrier Aeroflot with flight safety regulations, the airline said Tuesday. "We have received notification from the Prosecutor General's

MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian economy is strong enough to see out the current global financial crisis, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Markets were unsettled by the fallout from the mortgage crisis in the United States

MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - There is one Russian among 22 crewmembers of a Hong Kong tanker seized Monday off the coast of Somalia, an Internet publication said Tuesday. Maritime Bulletin Sovfracht said the sailors also included 18 Indians,

Adds details on Cabinet meeting, CBR official comments in paragraphs 10-14) MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian economy is strong enough to see out the current global financial crisis, the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Markets were

ST. PETERSBURG, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - Close to 700 children have been killed in car accidents in Russia for the first eight months of this year, the Russian interior minister said Tuesday. "There were 14,700 accidents involving children. A

It is natural for any nation to rally around the flag at a time of war, and to support the troops and the commander in chief. During the conflict with Georgia, Russians did exactly that. Democracies, however, have a healthy

Together with television, cartoons have evolved from a form of entertainment for children to a means of parodying a reality that society would much rather ignore. These new-age cartoons have been very successful in Western popular culture over the past

On Friday, Russian State television aired an Italian documentary that questioned the official version of what happened on September 11th, 2001. Boris Sokolov questions the channel's motives, asking why it chose to screen a one-sided film to 30 million viewers

The government of RF is additionally allocating money from federal budget.

The residents and guests of the region are invited to a football match where the combined team of governor Sergey Darkin and the combined team of actors participants of the film festival "Pacific Meridian".

The construction of two timber plants is conducted in the Terney district. The customer of the construction is the OAO "Terneyles".

Additional 172 million roubles will be allocated from the federal budget for the financing of the regional program on the prevention and fight with the diseases of social character. The according bill was developed by the administration of Primorye and