According to the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development, at least 500 thousand Russians were laid off in November.

Poet and author Lev Rubinshtein forcefully calls out those who say that Russia has been "humiliated" by the West, and who seek to restore a so-called "greatness" by pitting Russia against the Western world. These people, he argues, are simply

Russia and India must finally agree on the revised terms of a contract to deliver a modernized aircraft carrier to the Indian navy and ensure the implementation of the project, the Russian president said on Thursday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that a recent accident on board a Russian nuclear submarine was caused by human error and would not affect military-technical cooperation with India.

A Russian destroyer will visit on December 5-10 a former U.S. naval facility in Panama as part of the task force's current Caribbean tour, a Navy spokesman said on Wednesday.

Moscow City Assembly rejected an amendment to the federal anti-corruption legislation, preventing the expansion of the Federal Security Service, FSB, initiated by its member Sergei Mitrokhin, news agency ANN reports. According to Mitrokhin, the regulation provides for an unreasonable extension

The experts are predicting the increase of poaching cases and conflict situations between tigers and people.VLADIVOSTOK, December 4, vladivostoktimes.com The environmentalists suppose that the financial crisis threaten the Amur tiger's population. The experts are predicting the increase of poaching cases

Prisko Alexandra" is the main among seven tankers.VLADIVOSTOK, December 4, vladivostoktimes.com A new tanker "Prisko Alexandra", which is the first in the world with the notation Wintarization, made its first voyage. It was built at the STX Shipbuilding in Republic

MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti) - Five people have been killed in apartment fire in the city of Chernyakhovsk in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, a police source said on Thursday. It took firemen some 90 minutes to extinguish the

The classic graphic novel finally comes to the big screen in 2009!

The contest on the most original toy for the New Year’s tree will pass in the educational institutions of the region. The best New Year gifts made by kids will decorate the Kremlin tree the main New Year’s tree of

December 9-11, a Fest of the modern French cinema will take place in Vladivostok. The Embassy of France in Russia with the support of the Administration of Primorsky Krai is organizing this event.

The labour protection on the enterprises of ship repair will become the main topic of interdepartmental committee on the labour protection in Primorye. The leaders of the industry, representatives of supervisory authorities and trade union organizations of the province are

MOSCOW, December 3 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti has established a law agency to cover new developments taking place in Russia's legal system, a RIA Novosti deputy editor-in-chief said on Wednesday. The Agency for Legal

MOSCOW, December 3 (RIA Novosti) - Traffic police and Orthodox priests in the Central Russian region of Penza have joined efforts to improve traffic safety and curb the high rate of road deaths, a popular daily said on Wednesday. Instead

BRUSSELS, December 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is ready to restart dialogue with NATO, frozen after its brief war in August with Georgia, but will not forget that the alliance backed Tbilisi in the conflict, its NATO envoy said on

MOSCOW, December 3 (RIA Novosti) - The temperature in Moscow climbed to 6.6 degrees Celsius (44 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, breaking a 47-year-old record, the Russian meteorological website www.hmn.ru reported. "At 15:00 Moscow time (noon GMT), the air temperature climbed