MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has failed to learn lessons from the conflict over South Ossetia and still poses a threat to stability in the Caucasus. The ministry

MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Navy has sent a missile frigate to waters off the Somali coast to fight piracy in the region, a Navy spokesman said on Friday. (Russian Navy modernized - Image gallery) "The Neustrashimy (Fearless)

MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev observed the test launch of a tactical missile in a command and staff exercise in the southern Urals on Friday, a senior military commander said. A Tochka-U (SS-21 Scarab) short-range

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula contains at least 1,200 metric tons of gold and 8,000 tons of silver, a geological expert said Friday. (Gold for Russia - Image gallery) Speaking at a scientific conference in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,

KIEV/MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow and Kiev did not discuss the Russian Navy leaving the Sevastopol base it rents from Ukraine in 2017 during talks on the Black Sea Fleet that finished Friday, a Russian official said. "The

MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Leonid Gozman was appointed on Friday as acting leader of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) political party after the resignation of Nikita Belykh. Belykh said that he would take a two-week vacation and

MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Turkey is to extradite a Russian citizen charged with embezzling $1.3 million from the state, an Interpol source said on Friday. In February 2005, Pavel Grebennikov was put on the international wanted list on

MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - France is to extradite on Friday a Russian national wanted at home on fraud and robbery charges, an Interpol source said. In February 1999, Marian Ivanov and accomplices carried out an armed robbery in

ORENBURG, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom may soon sign an agreement with TNK-BP on buying the license to the Kovykta gas condensate field in East Siberia from the Russian-British oil company, the Russian energy giant's CEO said on Friday.

ORENBURG (South Urals), September 26 (RIA Novosti) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Russia must upgrade its nuclear deterrent and fully supply the Armed Forces with modern weaponry by 2020. He said Russia would make the modernization of

YEKATERINBURG, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Identification of the Perm plane crash victims has delayed DNA tests on the remains of the family of Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, the head of Yekaterinburg's forensic laboratory said on Friday. The laboratory

Last week, Russian leaders took sweeping measures to insulate the Russian economy from the financial contagion that is now sucking the United States into an economic black hole. Will Russia manage to steer clear of the U.S.-led financial meltdown? Is

Just six months ago, Russian financial workers complacently watched the credit crisis unfold in the West, but they are now laughing on the other side of their faces. The supposed security turned out to be chimerical, and even the country's

By pumping money into the economy, the Russian government moved quickly to resolve the deep economic crisis that struck the country in mid-September. A $44 billion safety package was provided to ensure the liquidity of the cash-stripped banking system. These

The recent murder in the center of Moscow of Ruslan Yamadayev, an influential Chechen warlord turned colonel of the Russian army, marks an important threshold for Chechnya. Yamadayev, 46, was the head of an influential clan seen as one of

At a meeting on the development of the Magadan Oblast, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev told representatives of the gold-mining industry to stop "whimpering."

Ruslan Yamadayev, a former lawmaker in Russia's lower house of Parliament, was shot to death in his car after he left meetings in the Kremlin.