Small demonstrations occurred in several Russian cities over the weekend in reaction to the government’s plan to raise tariffs on imported automobiles, and the riot police broke up one protest on Sunday in Vladivostok in the country’s far east, briefly

American and Russian crewmen installed a probe today aimed at tracking down problems with a Russian module during a six- hour spacewalk outside the international space station.

Alash just wrapped up a tour of the United States that took them through Texas, the Midwest, and the Northeast. Their concerts were attended by a combination of amazed new fans and enthusiastic returning fans, some of whom traveled great

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow has called on the European Union to try and influence Ukraine to prevent a disruption in Russia gas to EU states in the new year over Kiev's gas debt, the energy minister said

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign minister accused the United States on Tuesday of reneging on a promise not to allow Georgia membership in NATO if it ventured to attack breakaway South Ossetia. NATO denied Georgia and Ukraine

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - A group of Russian Pacific Fleet vessels will reach the Indian Ocean in two days, where joint Russian-Indian naval exercises are to be held next year, a fleet spokesman said Tuesday. "The Pacific Fleet

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Tu-160 Blackjack and Tu-95MS Bear strategic bombers and Tu-22M3 Backfire long-range bombers will undergo major modernization in 2009, a strategic aviation commander said on Tuesday. "Our aircraft have been in service for about

KIEV, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant Gazprom refuted late Tuesday Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's statement that Ukraine had resolved the gas dispute with Russia. Yushchenko said on Tuesday his country had used its foreign currency reserves to

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian drug police have seized around 260 kilograms (573 lbs) of heroin during a two-stage operation that ended in St. Petersburg, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service said on Tuesday. Viktor Ivanov

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - A new Security Council resolution giving a new UN mandate in the Georgian-Abhkazian conflict must be completed by February 15, 2009, Russia's ambassador to the UN said on Tuesday. Vitaly Churkin said that since

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow police officially rejected media reports on Tuesday that two violinists from a famed Russian orchestra had been attacked by racists, a police spokesman said. A member of the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra, Denis

The test launch of a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of breaching anti-missile defense systems, from a submarine was unsuccessful, a source at the Belomorsk naval base said on Tuesday.