MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on Thursday with three Glonass navigation satellites on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a space agency spokesman said. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will start off its new space year in January by launching an orbital laboratory to study the sun's activity, a spokesman for Russia's space agency told RIA Novosti on Thursday. On January 29,

ST. PETERSBURG, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's WBA Heavyweight World Champion Nikolai Valuev has no plans of a rematch with defeated former U.S. champion Evander Holyfield, the Russian fighter's manager said on Thursday. Holyfield submitted an appeal for a

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's pro-Kremlin political youth movement, Nashi (Ours), has prepared gifts for the country's "most unfriendly governments," according to the organization's press release. Over the last few weeks, members of the youth organization held surveys

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - The chief of the Russian General Staff said Thursday that production flaws could be to blame for Tuesday's unsuccessful test launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile. "Either the military-industrial complex or production itself

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's president said Thursday he had signed a package of anti-corruption laws. "I have just signed the entire package of laws to counter corruption," Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with FSB director Alexander

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - The head of Russian energy giant Gazprom and a senior Turkmen minister agreed Thursday on the technical aspects of a pipeline to transport Caspian natural gas to Russia, the company said in a press

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - This year Moscow bailiffs prohibited to leave Russia some 6,600 residents of the Russian capital, who failed to repay their debts, the head of the federal baliff service said on Thursday. "For the large

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - More than 1,000 people took to the streets of Grozny on Thursday protesting a Russian court's decision to grant parole to a former Russian military officer guilty of murdering a young Chechen woman. Yury

NAZRAN, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - Twelve militants were killed during a special counterterrorism operation in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a spokesman for the local police said on Thursday. "Twelve members of illegal armed formations have been eliminated,

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's GDP will grow about 2% in 2009 while inflation will be 10-12%, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Thursday. Last week, Russian Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said Russia's forecast GDP growth for

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court on Thursday found Alexei Kurtsin, a former manager of now bankrupt Yukos oil company, guilty of abuse of office and embezzling 74 million rubles ($2.6 million). "Kurtsin jointly with other defendants