Students from different cities of Far East will take part in this festival.VLADIVOSTOK, December 5, vladivostoktimes.com The fifth festival of foreign students, studying in Far-Eastern universities will be opened in Vladivostok, as FENU (Far-Eastern National University) press-service reported. The organizers

Over 6,000 Primorye residents called the hot line.VLADIVOSTOK, December 7, vladivostoktimes.com "Talking to Vladimir Putin", a special live broadcast, went on the air on December 4. The Prime Minister of Russia answered citizens' questions that had been received in his

The reducing will become possible thanks to reorganization and amalgamation.VLADIVOSTOK, December 7, vladivostoktimes.com According to the law the wide approbation of educational standards of the second generation is to start in the RF districts since 2009. Andrei FURSENKO, the Minister

MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church will be buried on Tuesday in the Annunciation side-chapel of Moscow's Epiphany Cathedral, the chief spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchy said on Saturday. "The patriarch gave this

MOSCOW, December 06 (RIA Novosti) - The temperature in Moscow hit 9.4 degrees Celsius (48.92 degrees Fahrenheit) in the early hours of Saturday, a record high for December, a meteorological website said. The hmn.ru site said: "A new record was

MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - The governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church began a meeting on Saturday to choose an interim leader, following the death of Patriarch Alexy II. The meeting between the seven permanent and five non-permanent

MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged the head of the OSCE's election watchdog to speed up work in developing new rules for monitoring, the ministry said on Saturday. Lavrov met with Janez Lenarcic, director

MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - The governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, elected on Saturday Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad as the interim leader of the Church. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy

Recasts, adds details) MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - The governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, elected on Saturday Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad as the interim leader of the Church. Patriarch of Moscow and

VLADIVOSTOK, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's stake on nanotechnologies will help faster overcome the consequences of the global financial crisis and bring production to a new level, a Russian deputy premier said Saturday. "Now that the world is living

MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - Thousands of people gathered outside the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow on Saturday to pay their respects to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, who died Friday. The doors to the

MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - Bills on tougher punishments for pedophiles and on responsibility for making, distributing and acquiring child pornography have been submitted to the lower house of Russia's parliament. A group of lawmakers led by First Deputy