Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez will visit Belarus within the next few days to sign new contracts, the Venezuelan ambassador to Minsk said on Wednesday.
Russian news agency RIA Novosti believes that investing in training programs which improve staff skills is the most effective anti-crisis program for media outlets, the agency’s editor-in-chief said
Russia must not cut the number of its nuclear warheads to a few hundred under a new strategic arms deal with the U.S., as it needs to maintain superiority over developing countries' nuclear arsenals, a Russian analyst said.
Russia and the United States need to update their approach to bilateral relations and consider pooling their efforts in various parts of the world, a Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian parliament passed on Wednesday budget amendments that will see the national bank provide an extra $1.3 billion for Euro 2012 preparations.
A decision to temporarily shut down the Cherkizovsky market came as a bolt from the blue for the vendors. On Tuesday they arrived at the market but they could not reach their counters. Now they are calculating their losses.
Researchers studying Siberia's Lake Baikal say they have found evidence that most of the world's deepest lake is much younger than the widely accepted age of 25 million years.
Russia's Reserve Fund declined 5.5% to 2.957 trillion rubles ($94.52 billion) while the National Prosperity Fund grew 1% to 2.814 trillion rubles ($89.93 billion) in June, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.
Russia has risen from ninth to sixth place in the latest FIFA rankings, published on the website of international football's governing body on Wednesday.
Andrei Zolotov Jr., the founding editor of the Russia Profile magazine says there is always a third party in relations between Russia and the United States
