Last week, President Dmitry Medvedev approved and forwarded to the State Duma a raft of anti-corruption bills that introduce sweeping measures to fight corruption at all levels of the Russian government. The new legislation will significantly tighten governmental control over

Russia's businesses, reportedly losing billions of dollars daily as the financial crisis shows no sign of subsiding, attempted to indirectly criticize the government this week. On Thursday, Alexander Shokhin, the president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP),

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of the Yukos oil company, has been put into solitary confinement for 12 days, allegedly for speaking with Esquire author Boris Akunin.

Students and schoolchildren of Primorye showed their love to Korean culture.VLADIVOSTOK, October 10, vladivostoktimes.com The II Far Eastern festival of Korean culture among youth and students was held at the student club "Pallada" on Thursday, October 9 at 1 p.m.

Pedestrians will be able to enjoy the panoramic view of the global construction.Vladivostok, October 10, vladivostoktimes.ru An unusual orange construction above the excavation on the territory of future tunnel, which will join the Golden Horn bridge and the federal road

Special attention will be paid to labor productivity.VLADIVOSTOK, October 10, vladivostoktimes.com Sergey DARKIN, the Governor of the Primorsky Territory had a meeting with the representatives of Primorye trade unions; the press service of the Primorsky Territory Administration informs. In his

In the last month there were two emergency situations involving well-known generals who participated in the antiterrorist campaign in Chechnya. So, the death of presidential advisor and well-known Army General and Hero of Russia, Gennady Troshev, due to the crash

MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - A militant has been killed in a clash with servicemen in central Chechnya, a law enforcement source in the North Caucasus republic said Friday. The source said over the phone that a shootout with

Primorye will cooperate with the south-Korean Pohang

MOSCOW, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russia said it would not supply air defense systems to volatile regions, the country's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Andrei Nesterenko made the statement at a news briefing when asked whether the issue

BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), October 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russian experts on Thursday completed the installation of a Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft on a carrier rocket in preparation for the launch of the 18th Expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). A three-stage

MOSCOW, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - The U.S. has again refused entry visas to breakaway Abkhazian officials due to attend a UN Security Council meeting on the Georgian conflict, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. "Our repeated efforts

MOSCOW, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - The jailed founder of Russia's Yukos oil company has been put into solitary confinement for giving an interview to Esquire magazine, his lawyers said in a statement Thursday. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was placed in an

MOSCOW, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russian warships en route to Venezuela to take part in naval exercises are not carrying nuclear weapons, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. "There are no tactical nuclear weapons on board these ships," Andrei