The Northern Fleet's Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile cruiser will become the first Russian warship to dock in Cape Town when it visits South Africa on January 9-12, Russia's Navy said.

Three Russian warships left the Cuban capital of Havana on Tuesday after the first such visit to Moscow's longtime Latin American ally since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The number of test launches for Russia's Bulava ICBM will be increased from three or four to at least five next year, a senior Navy official said on Tuesday.

The first of three trial charter flights of Vladivostok Air will arrive on Saipan at 3:40pm this Sunday, according to the Marianas Visitors Authority.

MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Wednesday that he is concerned that global warming is opening up the Northern Sea Route for the uncontrolled movement of foreign ships. Many Arctic specialists agree that

MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - Former U.S. world champion Evander Holyfield filed an appeal on Wednesday with the World Boxing Association protesting his points defeat to Russia's WBA Heavyweight World Champion Nikolai Valuev. Valuev defeated Holyfield on points in

MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - A complex of Topol-M (SS-27 Stalin) ICBMs entered service on Wednesday with another missile regiment in central Russia, a Strategic Missile Forces spokesman said. (Strategic Missile Force Day - Image gallery) The SMF spokesman

MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Serbia signed on Wednesday an oil and gas agreement during an official visit by Serbian President Boris Tadic to Moscow. The agreement allowing Russia's Gazprom Neft to buy a controlling stake in

MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev is disappointed by the slow pace in decision-making by his Western colleagues amid the global financial crisis, the president said in an interview with leading Russian TV stations. "I can

MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday Ukraine must pay its natural gas debt to Russia in full or otherwise Kiev could face disruptions in supplies. "The debt should be paid to the last ruble

MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) imposed on Wednesday a $53 million fine on state-run oil giant Rosneft and a $51 million fine on Russia's largest independent crude producer LUKoil. FAS Spokeswoman Irina Kashunina said

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - A student in the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod has been charged with killing his professor at a local academy after he failed to pass an exam, local investigators said on Wednesday. The

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - A court has upheld a parole request from a former Russian military officer sentenced to 10 years in jail for the murder of a young Chechen woman, a prosecutor's office spokesman said on

MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday relations between Russia and Ukraine had plunged to their lowest level in recent years. "As to relations in general, I have to say again that unfortunately they have