NEW YORK, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will attend a meeting of six nations to discuss Iran's nuclear program together with diplomats from several Arab countries at the United Nations on Tuesday, the Russian foreign minister said. The Arab

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's industrial output declined 8.7%, year-on-year, in November, but grew 3.7% over the first 11 months of the year, the country's top statistics body said on Tuesday. Compared with October, industrial output contracted 10.8%,

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian naval group led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, en route to the Mediterranean, conducted a series of training flights over the Celtic Sea, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday. Capt. 1st

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will hold several more test launches of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile next year before a final decision to adopt it for service is made, a senior Navy official said on Tuesday. The

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St. Petersburg have granted their unsettled star Andrei Arshavin permission to speak to other clubs, Russia's Sport Express daily said on Tuesday. Arshavin, 27, was linked with a number of clubs, including Barcelona

VOLGOGRAD, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 37 schoolchildren and one nurse have been hospitalized with acute intestinal infection in central Russia's Volgograd Region, a spokesman for the Russian consumer rights regulator said on Tuesday. The 37 children

NOVOSIBIRSK, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A villager in southwest Siberia is to take legal action against Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, after a rocket fragment fell on his land, a local administration official said on Tuesday. Boris Urmatov, a shepherd

YEKATERINBURG, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A suspected drunk driver crashed into ten cars near the Urals city of Yekaterinburg on Tuesday as he attempted to escape from police, a police spokeswoman said. The chase began on the Siberian Passage,

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Cuts in the numbers of Russian Interior Ministry troops, which started three years ago, has been suspended, the troops commander said Tuesday. Currently the total number of troops is over 170,000 service personnel. "The

YEKATERINBURG, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Police in Russia's Urals city of Yekaterinburg have seized 16 kilograms of heroin from two couriers smuggling the drugs in a minvan, the regional drugs control service said on Tuesday. Two Russian nationals were

VLADIVOSTOK, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A Cambodian trawler with 14 Russian crew members onboard has been escorted to the Russian port of Nakhodka, in the Primorye Territory, after being detained for poaching crab, a regional coast guard chief said

MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry has denied reports that Russia's Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin has resigned from his post. "The rumors are untrue," the ministry said. Earlier on Monday, media reports said that Moscow Region

MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian political scientist and Kremlin critic, Lilia Shevtsova, has told a German newspaper that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin could return to the Kremlin by summer. Shevtsova told Die Welt that 60% of Russians

MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is hoping to draft a new arms reduction treaty with the U.S. and reach a compromise on the U.S. missile shield in Europe by the end of 2009, a Russian deputy foreign minister

MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government plans to spend an extra 150 billion rubles ($5.4 billion) to prop up the real sector of the economy amid the global financial crisis, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday.

MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Ukraine have agreed to hold the next round of talks on the future of Russia's naval facilities in the Crimea in February-March 2009, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Moscow and

KIEV, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - The Ukrainian president congratulated on Monday Ukraine's IBF and WBO World Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 46 KOs) with the victory over Hasim Rahman of the United States. The Ukrainian boxer defended his title

MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow City Court on Monday sentenced seven young men, convicted of 20 race-hate murders and 12 other attacks, to between 6 to 20 years in prison. The gang killed their victims and assaulted

MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - A new case has officially been opened against former Interior Ministry officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov in the murder of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, his lawyer said on Monday. Andrei Litvin said his client was suspected