MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - In addition to deploying tactical missiles near the Polish border, Russia could use precision-guided air-based weapons to counter U.S. missile defense plans, a Russian military expert said on Monday. "Iskander [missile system] is not

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov told a U.K. newspaper that he does not expect Dmitry Medvedev to last more than 18 months as president, and that the financial crisis will lead to mass protests.

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - Three men charged in the October 2006 murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya will be tried in an open court, a Moscow military judge ruled on Monday. The court turned down prosecutors' request

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will implement the decisions adopted at the recent G20 summit, but will also take measures to protect its national interests, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a cabinet meeting on Monday. Leaders of

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - The launch of a Proton-M rocket with a Ciel 2 Canadian telecommunications satellite on board has been scheduled for December 10 from the Baikonur space center which Russia leases from Kazakhstan. "By the end

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - A woman whose drunken husband was accidentally killed by a pull-down sofa in their St. Petersburg apartment has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence, local prosecutors said on Monday. Vera Lukyanova, 55, had

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court sentenced a car driver, Anatoly Siluyanov, to seven years in prison for killing a pedestrian in a road rage attack at traffic lights, a court spokesman said on Monday. During the

MAKHACHKALA, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - All four militants killed in a gunfight in Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, have been identified, the republic's deputy interior minister said on Monday. Takhir Ramazanov said the

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - A corpse with occult symbols carved into it has been discovered in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg, the Fontanka Internet portal reported on Monday. The body of the unidentified man, said to be

On Friday November 7 the Times newspaper published an open letter signed by 65 of Britain's best known Russia watchers. The signatories were outraged by what they saw as ill-thought-out and unjustified cuts to the BBC World Service's Russian service,

Whenever you come to a large European city (take Rome, Florence or Milan), you notice it right away. Here are the registration ladies at the airport—having abandoned their boring work they argue loudly, the magic word "Obama" permeating their cordial

On December 14th, the Other Russia opposition coalition will hold large-scale protests known as "Marches of Dissent" in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Somali pirates released the Stolt Valor tanker on Sunday with 18 crewmembers, including a Russian national, the Russian maritime journal Sovfrakht reported.

The Russian Neustrashimy (Fearless) frigate prevented the seizure of a foreign vessel flying the Saudi flag by pirates off Somalia's coast on Sunday.

Sofia City Prosecution Office has assigned the State Agency for National Security (SANS) to check whether the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) is engaged in business deals, Sofia Prosecutor Nikolai Kokinov told the daily 24 Chasa. The check will