MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St. Petersburg face Saturn from the Moscow Region on Wednesday evening in a match they must win to maintain their bid for Champions League football next season. The 2007 Russian champions have already

MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi will pay an official visit to Russia at the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev from October 31 to November 2, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. (Vladimir Putin in Libya -

MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will launch his own website next year containing news and information on the life of the premier, Russia's official newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta said on Wednesday. "The website will contain

MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - The lower house of Russia's parliament ratified friendship treaties with South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Wednesday. Russia recognized both Georgian separatist republics as independent states on August 26 after the end of a five-day

MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russians marked 90 years on Wednesday since the establishment of the Soviet-era Young Communist League, or the Komsomol. The youth wing of the Communist Party disbanded after an unsuccessful August 1991 coup attempt by

MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Over 29 metric tons of drugs were seized in Russia in the first nine months of 2008, the Federal Drug Control Service said in a report on Wednesday. The figure includes 1.2 metric tons

GROZNY, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of the Russian republic of Chechnya, said on Wednesday he opposed the idea of merging the province with the neighboring republic of Ingushetia. His comments came in response to media

Gennadiy LYSAK is among rewarded deputies of Legislative Assembly.VLADIVOSTOK, October 29, vladivostoktimes.com. Russian agroindustrial complex trade union rewarded business managers and statesmen of Primorye with diplomas, as the Central Committee of trade union reported to RIA PrimaMedia. The deputies of

Known environmental organizations and ecology scientists have shown serious interest in the International environmental forum "Nature without borders", which will be held in Vladivostok on 12 and 13 November. The famous ecologist Alexander Tkalin will make speech at the plenary

Updates, adds Georgian reaction in paragraphs 4-6) ST. PETERSBURG, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign minister warned Georgia on Tuesday that its refusal to attend Geneva talks along with South Ossetian and Abkhazian representatives would threaten regional security. Sergei

MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is planning to expand military-technical cooperation with members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and build a CSTO integrated air defense network, the president said on Tuesday. The CSTO is a security grouping

MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and China signed on Tuesday an agreement for the construction of a pipeline branch to China as part of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline. It was earlier reported that construction could

MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Claims submitted by creditors in the third U.S.S.R. debt swap total around $675 million, with about $100 million in claims already admitted for exchange, a source in the Russian Finance Ministry said. The Finance

head of Uzbekistan's secret police, Rustam Inoyatov, to visit Germany immediately after the European Union lifted sanctions stemming from a 2005 massacre in Uzbekistan. Inoyatov is considered by some analysts to be the second most powerful man in Uzbekistan today