New sea trials of the Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine, which was damaged in a fatal accident during previous tests, will be conducted on June 15-20, Russia's Kommersant daily said on Wednesday.

During the phone talk Medvedev and Aso came to agreement that it is necessary to seriously respond to the actions of North Korea that make a challenge to the system of international security.

Russia has increasingly embraced the Internet over the past several years. The country has several hugely popular social networking sites of its own, and recently Internet users have been lured into globally popular sites such as Myspace and Facebook. This

On Wednesday the Head of the Ministry of Justice and the Chairman of the Supreme Court delivered a report to the Federation Council on the results of the first year of President Dmitry Medvedev's "war on corruption." They could only

Last week President Dmitry Medvedev formed a government commission on analyzing and suppressing falsifications of history to the detriment of Russia. Some have rushed to portray this move as an "Orwellian Truth Commission" dedicated to official propaganda of the historical

The latest attack on Belarus was perpetrated by the Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who offered a rather gloomy forecast for the Belorussian economy in late May. Kudrin noted that Belarus had spent a third of its international reserves in

The recent shooting in a Moscow supermarket by police Major Denis Yevsyukov, who killed three people and wounded six, only added to the negative image of those who are supposed to protect the population from illegal guns used by criminal

Avraam Shmulyevich, an Israeli researcher who has written extensively on the Circassians, in an article posted on the CaucasusTimes.com portal, says that "the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia and Russian bureaucrats responsible for nationality policy have taken the strategic