MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia could put those suspected of killing its nationals in Georgia's rebel republic of South Ossetia in August on the international wanted list, the head of Russia's Interpol office said on Thursday. "Russia can

MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti) - Foreign intelligence services continue to try to obtain classified information on the Sevmash shipyard in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk Region, a senior FSB official said on Thursday. Sergei Stepura, head of the Federal Security Service

MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti) - Capital outflow from Russia is expected to continue, and hit $90-91 billion next year, a deputy economics minister said on Thursday. Andrei Klepach said Russia's international reserves are expected to decline $110-140 billion amid

MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom may halt natural gas supplies to Ukraine from the start of next year over the country's failure to repay a more than $2 billion gas debt, a spokesman for the Russian energy giant

KALININGRAD, December 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia hopes to conclude a new cooperation agreement with the European Union in two or three years, a deputy foreign minister said Thursday. "It is a wide-ranging document affecting all spheres of relations between

SEVERODVINSK, December 18 (RIA Novosti) -- Russia's first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine will start sea trials by the end of 2008, a defense industry source said on Thursday. ( Russia launches new nuclear submarine - Image Galleries) The fourth-generation Yury

MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti) - Police in Yakutia, northeast Siberia, have freed a 15-year-old girl who had been sold by her older sister for 10,000 rubles ($370) to work as a sex slave, a Russian newspaper reported. Komsomolskaya Pravda

MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) could have its secretariat in St. Petersburg, a senior official at Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on Thursday. "We hope St. Petersburg will be chosen [from among four

MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's WBA Heavyweight World Champion Nikolai Valuev said on Thursday that he respects his tile belt contender, former U.S. world champion Evander Holyfield, as an experienced fighter, and does not underestimate him. Forty-six-year-old four-time

MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry condemned on Thursday the acquittal in a U.S. court of Miles Harrison over the death of his adopted Russian-born son, and said it would demand a review of the verdict. "We

Russia will continue to take part in international efforts to crack down on piracy off the Horn of Africa, which will improve stability in Somalia, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

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.

Eight Ukrainians are among the crewmembers on board a Turkish ship captured by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

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.