The construction of a new class of Russian destroyers will start no later than 2012, Head Commander of the Russian Navy Vladimir Vysotsky maintains.

A third task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet will arrive in late July in the Gulf of Aden to ensure security in the pirate-infested waters, a Navy official said on Wednesday.

India is ready to pay 2.2 billion USD for the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, currently under reconstruction in the Sevmash yard outside Arkhangelsk.

Sea trials of Russia's Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine, which was damaged in a fatal accident during previous tests, will continue for about two weeks, a high-ranking defense official said on Friday.

Russia announced that it will have disposed of two nuclear submarines by the middle of 2010.

Just before he left for his visit to Moscow last week, U.S. President Barack Obama stirred controversy in the Russian press by describing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a man with one foot in the past. For many that seemed

This year the annual youth camp at Lake Seliger was organized by the state, and thrown open to non-Nashi participants. It did not live up to the lurid expectations of its critics, and at its best was everything it was

Following the Russian-U.S. reset, a new American policy institute has opened in Kiev to dissuade Ukraine from its bid to Join NATO. Its fellows argue that Ukrainian NATO membership would be bad for both the United States and Ukraine. But

One of Moscow's most active markets has been shut down in a bid to fight its criminal trade. But despite an understandable motive, the move has left tens of thousands of people unemployed - a staggering 100,000, according to the

A row between the OSCE and Russian parliamentarians over historical memory has been marked by criminally sloppy thinking on both sides. Clumsy attempts to equate Stalin's crimes with those of Nazi Germany commit the fallacy of comparing one man -

The creation of favorable conditions for accumulating of the able-bodied population in the Russian Far East and improving of the living standards are to be the main issues of the forthcoming Forum. VLADIVOSTOK, July 14, vladivostoktimes.com The issues of social

Neptune and Co congratulated the residents. VLADIVOSTOK, July 13, vladivostoktimes.com Vladivostok celebrated Fisherman's Day on Sunday, July 12. Creative groups made performances on Sportivnaya Naberezhnaya. All people who came there had a chance to participate in competitions and get prizes.

Victor GORCHAKOV: I wish the Primorye fishing industry workers to be healthy and happy. VLADIVOSTOK, July 12, vladivostoktimes.com Dear Primorye Fishermen! On behalf of the Primorsky Territory Legislative Assembly Deputies I congratulate you on your professional holiday - the Fisherman's

Chinese-Russian antiterrorist exercise is to be held on July 22-26. VLADIVOSTOK, July 13, vladivostoktimes.com According to the general plan of the Chinese-Russian antiterrorist military exercise "Peace mission-2009," the first group of Russian troops arrived by railway and by air in

Traditional objects to visit on Komandorskiye Islands are places of living of marine mammals - rookeries and seasonal grounds of sea lines, fur seals, colonies of birds. VLADIVOSTOK, July 12, vladivostoktimes.com Scientific and expedition vessel "Professor Khromov," having already "got