MAKHACHKALA, November 27 (RIA Novosti) - A border service guard has been killed in a drive-by shooting in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Daghestan, an interior ministry source said on Thursday. The attack occurred at 09:00

Why has Russia sent warships to Venezuela? - poll) CARACAS, November 27 (RIA Novosti) - Talks in Caracas between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez have yielded a host of bilateral agreements. Dmitry Medvedev arrived in

MOSCOW, November 27 (RIA Novosti) - A pair of Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers carried out a routine patrol flight on Thursday over the Arctic Ocean off Alaska, an Air Force spokesman said. Lt. Col. Vladimir Drik told RIA Novosti

MAKHACHKALA, November 27 (RIA Novosti) - A border service guard and a police officer have been killed in two separate attacks in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Daghestan, an interior ministry source said on Thursday. The border guard was killed

MOSCOW, November 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's international reserves stood at $449.9 billion as of November 21, down from $453.5 billion on November 14, the Central Bank said on Thursday. The country's international reserves declined by $9.2 billion in the

50 of the most talented and successful children of Ussuriisk received the scholarships of the year. This award was established by the head of the urban district for the most gifted and promising young people.

MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia successfully test launched on Wednesday a new-generation intercontinental ballistic missile bearing multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) warheads. "All the warheads hit the designated areas at the Kura testing grounds on the Kamchatka

MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - The bodies of six young women were found with similar gunshot wounds at different sites in the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya on Wednesday morning, a spokeswoman for the Investigation Committee said. "The bodies

MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law liberalizing tax legislation to help domestic businesses weather the financial crisis, the Kremlin press office said on Wednesday. The amendments to the Tax Code, in particular,

RIO DE JANEIRO, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - The next summit of BRIC countries will be held in Russia next year, President Dmitry Medvedev announced on Wednesday. The first summit of the four BRIC members - Brazil, Russia, India and

MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia launched on Wednesday a Soyuz-U carrier rocket with a cargo spacecraft, equipped with a new on-board digital control system, from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Mission Control said. "The flight of the

LONDON, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - The Kremlin welcomed on Wednesday Britain's announcement that it will host a summit of the G20 countries on April 2 on the global financial crisis, and said President Dmitry Medvedev would attend. British Prime

MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow military judge, Yevgeny Zubov, refused on Wednesday to remove himself from the trial of three men accused of involvement in the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who gained international recognition

MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Police seized 50 kg (110 lbs) of heroin in the south of the Moscow Region on Wednesday, Russia's Federal Drugs Service said. The operation was conducted in the Leninsky district, the service said, without

MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian political analysts predict that Andrei Lugovoi, a chief suspect in the Litvinenko murder case, may replace Vladimir Zhirinovsky as head of the ultra-nationalist LDPR party, a popular daily said on Wednesday. Alexander Litvinenko

The strategic nuclear Delta-IV class submarine K-18 Kareliya has been launched after modernizations at the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast.

Russian and Venezuelan warships will conduct artillery live firing drills on December 1 as part of joint naval exercises in the Caribbean, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday.

A delegation of Indian military officials has visited the Yantar shipyard in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad to inspect the construction of three missile frigates for the Indian Navy, a company's spokesman said on Tuesday.

Russia's Neustrashimy (Fearless) missile frigate has successfully escorted two Russian ships past the Horn of Africa protecting them from Somali pirates, a Russian shipping company said on Tuesday.

A serving crew member on the Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine, on which 20 people recently died, has been charged with "criminally negligent homicide," a Russian top investigator said Monday.