Purposeful information campaign on creation of negative image of the Ukrainian state has been conducted against Ukraine, online paper Obozrevatel reports, referring to Marina Ostapenko, the Press secretary of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) head. According to her, in

STRASBOURG, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - A motion calling for Russia's participation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to be reduced over the country's war with Georgia was rejected by the PACE Bureau on Monday, a Russian

The demonstration performances of the Taekwondo masters and artists of the Republic of Korea are in the program of the event.

VIENNA, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - The UN nuclear watchdog and Russia's state nuclear corporation will discuss an international uranium enrichment center being built in East Siberia at their meeting on Monday, a Russian nuclear official said. Plans for a

VLADIVOSTOK, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has started a tactical exercise in the country's Far East as part of the Stability-2008 strategic maneuvers, a military spokesman said on Monday. The Bereg (Coast) exercise will run from September 29 though

NOVOSIBIRSK, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - A car containing four dead bodies has been found in a reservoir near the village of Borodino in East Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, a police source said on Monday. All four - a 15 year-old

MOSCOW, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Six people including four policemen died on Monday morning when the van they were travelling in was hit from behind by a speeding truck on a highway leading into the Volga city of Ulyanovsk,

YAKUTSK, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Two 15 year-old boys from the northeastern Russian Republic of Yakutia are to face trial for the brutal murder of their classmate, a source in the local prosecutor's office said on Monday. The two

MOSCOW, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Kazan club Rubin lost 1-0 at home to FC Moskva on Sunday and saw their lead at the top of the Russian Premier League cut from nine points to seven as 2006 champions CSKA

MOSCOW, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Three residents of Abkhazia have been detained in Russia on suspicion of smuggling arms into the country, the Russian Interior Ministry said on Monday. "Officers from Russia's law-enforcement bodies caught the suspects red-handed," a

Two Russian ships have arrived in South Korea to take part in joint anti-terror naval exercises, a Russian border guard spokesman said on Monday.

Two sailors from the Tolstoy cargo ship that sank off the Bulgarian coast early on Saturday have survived while others are still missing, Russian TV news channel Vesti 24 reported on Sunday.

A Ukrainian ship seized by pirates off the Somali coast on Thursday contained 33 T-72 tanks along with other armaments that were on their way to Kenya under a contract, Ukraine's defense minister said Friday.

The Tolstoy cargo ship that has reportedly sunk in the Black Sea off the Bulgarian coast was not Russian, but North Korean, the Russian Transportation Ministry said on Saturday.

A Russian cargo ship sank early Saturday in the Black Sea off the Bulgarian coast, the Bulgarian transportation ministry said.

A long-range sortie of the Russian naval task group to the Caribbean has drawn close attention from NATO, a Navy spokesman said on Saturday.