MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - A Lenin statue was blown up in the early hours of Saturday in the central Russian city of Ryazan, a police source has told RIA Novosti. No one was injured in the blast, which
MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Talks due to start in Geneva on Tuesday on the recent Russia-Georgia conflict must "concentrate on essential security issues" in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. "If we want to consider
WASHINGTON, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia could soon join the Financial Stability Forum uniting representatives of national finance ministries, central banks and international financial institutions, a source in the Russian delegation to the G20 summit said Saturday. "Apparently, all
Adds details in paras 3-8) WASHINGTON, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Saturday for the reorganization of the global financial system, including the establishment of an international regulatory commission, a presidential aide said. "To make
WASHINGTON, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Saturday for the reorganization of the global financial system, including the establishment of an international regulatory commission, a presidential aide said. "To make the process of reform as
MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Union of Right Forces, which is participating in a project to establish a new rightist political group, decided Saturday at an extraordinary party congress to dissolve itself. A total of 97 people voted
MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - No one was killed or injured in a large fire at an industrial complex in north Moscow, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry's Moscow department said Saturday. "The fire on Narvskaya Street was
It was hard not to feel sorry for President Dmitry Medvedev while watching him deliver his first State of the Nation Address last week. After all, this handsome, smart, modest, hardworking and progressive lawyer from St. Petersburg deserved a better
America's obsession with "containing Russia" is endangering the United States' own security, by the country's turning a blind eye, among other things, to Mexico's escalating narco-cartel crisis. Within hours of Barack Obama's world-moving acceptance speech, the news broke that two
The financial crisis has forced nearly all companies in all fields to revisit their long-term plans and adjust to the worsened economic climate. The possibilities for savings were ample, ranging from optimizing personnel to giving up on new projects and
The Defense Ministry has unveiled plans for the most far-reaching reform of Russia's Armed Forces since the end of the Second World War. Change is long overdue, but the plans have already provoked a storm of protest from conservative-minded politicians
On Friday, Russia and the European Union will restart negotiations on a new partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA). The official announcement will be made at the summit of Russia and the EU in Nice, southern France. This event puts an
During the Great Depression, the United States softened the blow by focusing on building infrastructure, primarily roads. Caught in a financial crisis, Russia decided to take the same path by defining a new transport strategy, a concept outlining the development
President Dmitry Medvedev's first State of the Nation Address sent confusing signals. In its timing and foreign policy messages it seemed to be a direct challenge to his new counterpart across the Atlantic. In proposing changes to the constitution it
Writing for the Yezhednevny Zhurnal, Russian defense expert Aleksandr Golts analyzes the latest disaster to strike the Russian Navy and explores the state of the Russian armed forces as a whole.
Mikhail Beketov, the editor-in-in chief of a small opposition newspaper in the Moscow suburbs, is in critical condition after being assaulted and beaten outside his home.
Opponents of the Kremlin are forming a movement to protect the Russian Constitution from an amendment to extend term limits, even as the proposed changes seem set to breeze through the legislature. Translation by theotherrussia.org.
International students in the Russian city of Penza, some 600 kilometers south of Moscow, are concerned for their safety as a series of racially-motivated attacks escalates around a local university.
Nikolay Petrov, a scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center, comments on what was missing from Dmitri Medvedev's state-of-the-union address, and the sad state of Russia's political system. The article first ran in the Moscow Times newspaper on November
The oil pipeline reaches the Pacific Ocean coast in late 2013 - early 2014.VLADIVOSTOK, November 15, vladivostoktimes.com The building of ESPO (East Siberia - Pacific Ocean) oil pipeline first stage is to be completed by December 2009. At the same
