MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - An official ceremony was held in the Russian capital on Sunday to commemorate the victims of the Moscow Dubrovka theater siege six years ago. On October 23, 2002, about 40 Chechen terrorists took hostage

MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - A missile frigate from Russia's Baltic Fleet arrived at the port of Aden in Yemen on its way to join an international naval group fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia, the Russian Navy

YEKATERINBURG, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Four people have died and one person has been injured after a helicopter crashed near the capital of Russia's Volga Republic of Tatarstan, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday. "At 2:10 p.m. Moscow

MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government must cut budget spending and control foreign borrowings of state companies amid global financial woes and falling oil prices, former prime minister Yegor Gaidar said on Sunday. In an interview with

ST. PETERSBURG, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - A mini-bus taxi has smashed into a bus stop, killing at least five people, including three children, outside St. Petersburg in Russia's northwest, the regional traffic police said on Sunday. The road accident

RUSSIA * The Russian government is drafting new measures to fight the credit crunch amid the ongoing global financial crisis, First Deputy Chairman Igor Shuvalov said * The Russian government must cut budget spending and control foreign borrowings of state

MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government is drafting new measures to fight the credit crunch amid the ongoing global financial crisis, First Deputy Chairman Igor Shuvalov said on Sunday. "We believe that measures, which have been taken

MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Ordinary Russians will be not be greatly affected by the current global financial crisis, Russia's Deputy Finance Minister has said. "Of course, we can not say that we are completely protected," Dmitry Pankin said

MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visits Moscow on Saturday for talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin's press service said. "Talks between the two heads of state will be held," the statement read,