ST. PETERSBURG, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Admiralty Shipyard has started construction of a second enhanced ice-class tanker designed to ship oil from an Arctic oil field, a company spokesperson said on Monday. ( Russian shipyard floats out new

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - The EU-Russia summit to be held in Nice on Friday will focus on the global financial crisis, Russia's envoy to the European Union said on Monday. "Ahead of [the] Nice [summit], the issue of

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) -- A Russian nuclear power plant construction company will build and deliver essential equipment for a nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, Atomstroyexport said on Monday. It said the company would build a reactor frame, vapor

BRUSSELS, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - The European Union said on Monday that talks on a new strategic partnership agreement with Russia would resume later this month, despite opposition from Lithuania. EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told reporters after

VELIKY NOVGOROD, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Statuettes representing the British fictional detective Sherlock Holmes have been awarded to the 16 best police officers in Russia's Novgorod Region, a local administration spokesman said on Monday. Apart from the awards, carved

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - The next round of talks on Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization will be held on November 24-25, Moscow's top WTO negotiator said Monday. "The working group will discuss a WTO entry report

KEMEROVO, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian schoolboy collapsed and died during a Daido Juku martial arts competition in the southwest Siberian city of Kemerovo, a spokesman for the regional administration said on Monday. "Fifteen-year-old Artyom Korotkov of Novosibirsk

ROSTOV-ON-DON, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - One person died and three were injured in a household gas explosion in southern Russia's Rostov Region on Monday. The explosion occurred on the third floor of a five-story building in the town of

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the country must develop a set of measures to influence world oil prices. World oil prices have fallen more than 50% from a record high

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Net capital outflow from Russia totaled around $50 billion in October, Central Bank Chairman Sergei Ignatyev said on Monday. He said the Central Bank would release more exact figures in the near future. October's

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The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) is still the second largest party in the Parliament, which in the eyes of some makes it "the only opposition." With just 12 percent of seats in the State Duma, roughly equivalent

On the same day that Barack Obama accepted victory in the U.S. presidential election, President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia delivered his own annual State of the Nation Address. In their diverse approach to the same global problems, the two leaders

The preparation of coastal marine and land crossing points to the activities of the APEC Summit 2012 has started.

At least 20 people were killed and another 21 injured in an accident on a Russian Pacific Fleet nuclear submarine which was undergoing routine tests, an aide to the Russian Navy commander said on Sunday.