MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Strategic Missile Forces plan 13 training missile launches for next year, the forces commander Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov said Wednesday. (Strategic Missile Force Day - Image gallery) "We have scheduled 13 training launches for

MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - The World Boxing Council announced on Wednesday a tender for the organization of a WBC heavyweight title defense bout between Champion Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine and Juan Carlos Gomez of Cuba. The official website

ORAN (Algeria), December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is considering different options for its cooperation with OPEC, from observation to membership, a Russian deputy prime minister said Wednesday. Igor Sechin led the Russian delegation at Wednesday's meeting of the Organization

MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will supply Lebanon with 10 used MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter planes free of charge, the head of the federal military cooperation service said on Wednesday. The usual export price for a new MiG-29 is

MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow Region court will begin next week an 'in absentia' trial of fugitive Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on charges of money laundering involving Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Last month

MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's newly crowned Miss World, Ksenia Sukhinova , arrived in Moscow on Wednesday and will soon return to her home city and outpourings of congratulations from her family and friends. The 21-year-old student from

ORAN (Algeria), December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's oil output will show a 0.6-1.2% year-on-year decline in 2008 and total 485-488 million metric tons (9.7-9.8 million barrels per day) by yearend, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Wednesday. Russia, which

MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Vasily Aleksanyan, a terminally-ill former Yukos executive, said on Wednesday the December 8 decision by a Moscow court to set bail for his release at 50 million rubles ($1.8 million) was senseless and cynical.

MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Oleg Mitvol, dismissed three months ago as deputy head of the Russian environmental regulator Rosprirodnadzor, lost a lawsuit against his dismissal in a Moscow court on Wednesday. "The court has turned down my suit,

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - A man and a woman were arrested by police in the southwest Urals Republic of Bashkiria on Wednesday on suspicion of robbing a bank with a gun-shaped cigarette lighter, a police spokesman said.