knew he planned to flee to a third country, and that the warrant was signed so late is a result of media pressure, the magazine says.

Russian Athletics News. Russia's Lyudmila Petrova finished second at the New York Marathon setting a World record of 2:25:423 for the Women over 40 category. She lost the lead in the last meters of the distance to let Paula Radcliff

Russian Athletics News. Vladimir Ponomarev (2:15:17) and Aleksey Sokolov (2:19:08) finished second and third at the 15th Podgorica Marathon held in Montenegro. The winner was Yaroslav Mushchinskiy of Moldavia clocking 2:14:50. Artem Yekimov won the half marathon with 1:07:02. Tatyana

Russian Athletics News. The IAAF has ratified World records of Denis Nizhegorodov and Aleksey Bartsaykin in the men's 50km (3:34.14) and Junior 10km (39.32) Race Walking correspondingly. The Russian race walkers had set the records at the World Cup in

MOSCOW, November 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Communist Party issued a harsh rebuke on Tuesday of Unity Day celebrations, saying the country should not ignore the Bolshevik Revolution. Russia has marked Unity Day each November 4 since 2005, following a

MOSCOW, November 4 (RIA Novosti) - Police said no one was injured in a blast early Tuesday morning near railway tracks in southern Moscow, a law enforcement source said. "Investigators have completed an inspection of the blast scene... A maintenance

MOSCOW, November 4 (RIA Novosti) - Police said three cars were set alight in central and southern Moscow on Tuesday morning in what may be the start of another series of arson attacks on vehicles in the city. In southwest

MOSCOW, November 4 (RIA Novosti) - An 81-year-old man died after being hit by a car driven by a police officer in western Russia's Belgorod Region, a local police source said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday evening

MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - During his weekend visit to Moscow, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi accepted an invitation from the Chechen president to visit the North Caucasus republic in 2010, a spokesman for the president said on Monday. "President

MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russian long-distance runner Ludmila Petrova said she was happy with her second place in New York's prestigious marathon. Petrova, who became the first Russian woman to win the New York marathon in 2000, held

MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - Police recovered explosives and a home-made bomb from an arms cache in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a law enforcement source said on Monday. The source said the cache was discovered during a

MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - Four Russians tennis players are among the eight competitors in Doha this week ahead of Tuesday's opening matches in the WTA's $4.55 million end-of-season tournament. They are the top eight players in the Women's