ST. PETERSBURG, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian lawmaker and a presidential envoy on Arctic and Antarctic international cooperation said on Thursday that Russia would not cede its right to Arctic shelf exploration to any other state. "I will

MOSCOW, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will not attend a world summit of Nobel Peace Prize winners he was due to preside over as he has undergone eye surgery, his foundation said on Thursday. "He

MOSCOW, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin named on Thursday a mountain peak in the Caucasus in honor of Russian spies. The former president's office has said that the one-time KGB agent signed a resolution to

BEIJING, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will complete heating oil deliveries to North Korea within the next several months, the head of the Russian delegation at six-party talks on Korea's nuclear problem said on Thursday. Under an international energy

KURGAN, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev refused to rule out on Thursday the possibility of Russia joining OPEC, and also said the country may cut oil production to regulate prices. "I would like to say that

MOSCOW, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia marked on Thursday what would have been the 90th birthday of Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn with a series of events, including the opening of website dedicated to his

KURGAN, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke on Thursday of the importance of supporting Russian manufacturers. "We should not close [the domestic market], but under otherwise equal conditions Russian producers should be favored," the president said

MOSCOW, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian swimmers set a new world record in the 4 x 50 m medley on Thursday at the opening of the European Short-Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. Stanislav Dontsa, Sergei Geibel, Nikolai Skvortsov and

MOSCOW, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian prosecutors on Thursday finished making their case against three men accused in the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a prosecutor said. Politkovskaya, who worked for the Moscow-based Novaya Gazeta paper, was

The measures to counter the financial crisis were taken in Primorye. The Action Plan designed to improve the situation in the financial sector and economy was approved by the Governor Sergei Darkin, informed in the press service of the regional