MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is negotiating with Cuba and Venezuela on the joint use of Russia's Glonass navigation satellites, the head of the federal space agency said on Tuesday. "I have just returned from a working visit

NEW YORK, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will promote the idea of a new European security treaty this week when he attends the UN General Assembly, a RIA Novosti correspondent said Tuesday. The General Assembly's

MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Three people have been found dead in Ingushetia, while in separate attacks another two were wounded and the deputy interior minister's official car was blown up, law enforcement sources said Tuesday. The incidents all

NOVOSIBIRSK, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - An intestinal infection has hospitalized a total of 29 cadets from a military school in the city of Minusinsk in East Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, a source in the regional consumers rights watchdog said on

STAR CITY (Moscow Region), September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Space Agency confirmed Tuesday the composition of the main crew for the 18th International Space Station expedition. The crew, scheduled to lift off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan

MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian military rejected Tuesday reports that one of its pilotless planes had been shot down by Georgia. The Georgian authorities announced earlier Tuesday that its military had shot down a Russian reconnaissance drone

MOSCOW/MAKHACHKALA, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Kazakhstan will conduct joint naval exercises in the Caspian Sea in 2009, the commander of the Caspian flotilla said on Tuesday. "These exercises will be aimed at practicing anti-terrorism operations and will

MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - More than 70 people have been killed and some 300 injured in ethnically motivated violence in Russia so far this year, the deputy head of a think-tank dealing with the problem said Tuesday. "The

MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that new steps to define the country's southern Arctic boundary have nothing to do with territorial claims, and dismissed concerns voiced by foreign states. Last Friday Canadian Prime

MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - FIFA has decided to allow Georgia to play its home World Cup 2010 qualifying games in the South Caucasus state, world soccer's governing body said in a statement on Tuesday. Georgia's Group 8 opener

Daily Telegraph - Russian warships are sailing towards the Caribbean for the first time since the Cold War to take part in a joint naval exercise with Venezuela.

A Russian naval task force departed Monday on a tour of duty in the Atlantic Ocean, including joint naval drills with the Venezuelan navy in November, a Navy spokesman said.

Russia will adopt new Bulava-M submarine-based ballistic missiles for service with the Navy and commission the first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine in 2009, a senior Navy official said on Friday.

The Russian Navy on Thursday successfully tested a Bulava sea-launched ballistic missile, which hit targets on testing grounds in Kamchatka in Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry said.

According to chairman of the State Defense Commission of Riigikogu (parliament) of Estonia, Matti Raidma, the spy case of the former high-ranking Ministry of Defence official Herman Simm, suspected of high treason, has showed need for improvement of legislation and