Former head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) directorate in Arkhangelsk Oblast has been appointed new regional deputy governor, Barentz Observer reports. The regional legislative assembly approved the candidacy of Aleksandr Topchiy, the ex-chairman of the FSB Arkhangelsk directorate.

Dmitry Rogozin, Moscow's permanent representative to the NATO alliance, who has previously called for Russia to rearm to counter the perceived threat, has with irony apprehended reports of some mass media, which appeared referring to a publication in the Financial

Russian Athletics News. Yelena Isinbayeva won the women's pole vault at the Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships meeting held in Daegu, Korea. She cleared 4.60m. Tatyana Lebedeva won the women's long jump with 6.65m

MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia may have to pay $1.5-2 billion a year to Ukraine for the lease of the Sevastopol naval base, if the Black Sea Fleet stays there after 2017, a Russian expert close to talks

MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Central Bank made a profit from investing a part of the country's international reserves in U.S. mortgage bonds, despite the subprime mortgage crisis, the president's economic adviser said on Thursday. "The Central Bank

MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will provide Venezuela with a $1 billion loan to buy Russian weapons, a Kremlin source said Thursday. "The Russian side has made the decision to extend to Venezuela a $1 billion loan for

Adds Ukrainian defense minister's statements in paras 9-10) MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia may have to pay $1.5-2 billion a year to Ukraine for the lease of the Sevastopol naval base, if the Black Sea Fleet stays there

MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia now has enough evidence to try in international courts those people guilty of war crimes during Georgia's assault on South Ossetia in August, the country's top investigation body said on Thursday. "The phase

VOLZHSKY UTYOS (Samara Region), September 25 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government should take concrete steps to reactivate the country's nuclear icebreaker fleet, the Russian prime minister said Thursday. "We will act calmly in this direction, having in mind another

MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Federal Air Transportation Agency ordered on Thursday six air companies to impose a temporary ban on the flights of Boeing-737-500, modification VP-BKT, aircraft. The model is equipped with the same navigation system

MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will arrive in Russia later on Thursday to meet with his Russian counterpart and sign new political and financial agreements. The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Chavez would be in

MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Finance Ministry will hold auctions on September 30 and October 1 offering banks up to 500 billion rubles ($20 billion) in temporarily available budget funds to boost liquidity, the ministry said on Thursday.

VILYUCHINSK (KAMCHATKA), September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's president said on Thursday that the modernization of the Armed Forces needed to move faster, with priority being given to new, advanced weaponry and improving the conditions for service personnel. "We have

MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Finance Ministry said on Thursday that the liquidity situation was stabilizing and would improve, and that more banks could bid for budget funds the government has made temporarily available to further boost liquidity.

MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has put into orbit three Glonass navigation satellites after a successful launch from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency said on Thursday. "The Proton-M carrier rocket lifted off at 12:49

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia plans to influence world oil prices, including by revising its output forecasts, the Russian energy minister said on Thursday. "Russia needs to take an active position on influencing the current market price of

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - An inmate at a high-security prison in Russia's Volga city of Samara died in hospital from injuries suffered in Tuesday's riot and subsequent fire, bringing the death toll to two, investigators said on