MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is greatly concerned over reports that U.S. forces carried out a strike within Syrian territory, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Official Syrian media earlier reported that American helicopter-borne troops launched an assault

VLADIVOSTOK, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - The Amur shipyard in Russia's Far East said on Monday it had started sea trials of a newly built nuclear-powered attack submarine, which according to media reports may be leased to India. The construction

MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke out on Monday against the "tempting" policies of "aggressive protectionism" and restricting the movement of capital during the ongoing financial crisis. "As the entire world is affected by

NEW YORK, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has called UN Security Council consultations on the situation in the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zones, the UN said on Monday. The meeting will take place in New York later on

MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law an array of measures aimed at ensuring stability in the banking system through December 31, 2011, the Kremlin press service said on Monday. Russian banks have

MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russians will be able to enter Macedonia without visas for a period of up to 90 days starting on October 31, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The agreement between Russia and Macedonia on

VELIKY NOVGOROD, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - The parents of a baby in the Novgorod Region of northwest Russia called doctors after discovering that the 'juice' they had bought for the child was in fact industrial spirits, local doctors said

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Two 18-year-old female students were found dead near a cemetery in the Russian Urals city of Ufa on Monday, a spokesman for the regional investigative committee said. "Two girls, second year university students,

YEKATERINBURG, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Additional excavations could be carried out in the Urals area where the remains of the family of Russia's last tsar Nicholas II were found, a local archeologist said on Monday. The remains were discovered

MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - CSKA Moscow beat Dynamo Moscow 3-1 away from home on Monday evening to move back within seven points of leaders Rubin FC. CSKA and Dynamo were in 2nd and 3rd places respectively before the

MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow should pursue "a constructive dialogue" with Washington regardless of the outcome of the November 4 U.S. presidential elections, the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Monday. A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News

Svetlana Bakhmina, the former deputy director of YUKOS' legal department who is presently serving a prison sentence on charges of appropriating assets and tax evasion, has appealed to Dmitry Medvedev for a presidential pardon. Alexander Arkhangelsky argues that if Medvedev

The Left Front, a loose confederation of radical leftist groups which held a founding congress in Moscow last week, took its first major action as an entity on Saturday. The Day of People's Wrath, as the demarche was called, culminated

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 said.

The cargo ship Storfoss yesterday delivered fish feed to two salmon farms in the Pechenga Bay. The operation is the first of its kind to the bay, which is part of the militarized Russian border zone.

Russia should start preparing to withdraw its Black Sea Fleet from bases in the Crimea now, because the process could take up to six years, a Ukrainian diplomat said on Friday.

Famous Czech writer Milan Kundera , author of the Unbearable Lightness of Being, has demanded that a Czech weekly apologize for publishing allegations that he once informed on a purported Western spy, news agency CTK reported, referring to the author's

MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Minh Triet on Monday to discuss bilateral trade and energy, a Kremlin source said. "It is expected that the main focus will be