The Kyrgyz parliament approved on Wednesday a deal allowing the U.S. to continue using its Manas airbase for supply and troop transits to Afghanistan.

School proms swept across Russia on Tuesday, young Russians celebrating their graduation from high school. Some of them shared their plans.

Russia could sell up to 40 fourth-generation diesel-electric submarines to foreign customers by 2015, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.

Russia's lower house of parliament confirmed on Wednesday Sergei Ignatyev as chairman of the Central Bank for a new four-year term.

MIKHAIL MARGELOV, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Federation Council of Russia

Between 200 and 300 inmates of Belgium prisons will be granted early release due to forecast hot weather that could provoke unrest in prisons, Belgium media reported on Wednesday.

The struggle to tackle militant attacks in the Russian Caucuses regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia is continuing to plan, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

Russia's president will arrive in Namibia on Thursday to discuss increasing trade turnover and expanding Russian investment, particularly through participation in large projects.

Mass protests in Iran over alleged electoral fraud will not affect Russia's work on the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, a source in Rosatom said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW. (Yury Zaitsev for RIA Novosti)

Serbia has sent Bulgaria an official request to extradite former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku, who is wanted for alleged war crimes, Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic said on Wednesday.

Two militants were killed by Russian security forces on Wednesday in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, where a third has taken cover in a house, a spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry said.

The authorities of Ingushetia and Chechnya will conduct their own joint probe into Monday's assassination attempt on the Ingush president, the Chechen president said on Wednesday.

Another rally in the Iranian capital Tehran was brutally put down on Wednesday, according to unofficial Twitter reports.

Russia's lower house of parliament adopted a statement on Wednesday declaring peace treaty talks with Japan pointless unless Tokyo cancels amendments to a law on the disputed Kuril Islands.

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The authorities of Ingushetia and Chechnya will conduct their own joint probe into Monday's assassination attempt on the Ingush president, the Chechen president said on Wednesday.

Iran's foreign and domestic policies will become less uncompromising during President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second term, the head of the Modern Iran Study Center said Wednesday.