MONINO (Moscow Region), April 22 (RIA Novosti) - A new Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber will enter service with Russia' Air Force by the end of this month, the Air Force chief said on Tuesday. "We hope that the 121st heavy
With friendly neighbours like these, Ukraine must be thinking, who needs enemies? First the trash talking came from Vladimir Putin who (among other things), intimated at the recent NATO conference in Bucharest that Ukraine isn't a real country, but apparently
A prominent group of Russian engineers believe the K-159 nuclear sub will be lifted from the sea bottom in the course of the next four years. The vessel sunk in the Kola Bay during a tugging operation in 2003.
MOSCOW, April 15 (RIA Novosti) - The mausoleum at Red Square, where the embalmed corpse of ex-Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is housed, reopened on Tuesday after two-months of maintenance works. Lenin's mausoleum, a major tourist attraction in the heart of
MINSK, April 23 (RIA Novosti) - Belarus has again called on the United States to reduce its embassy staff in Minsk, a statement from the country's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Earlier in the month Belarusian Foreign Minister Viktor Gaisenok
Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a larger, stronger shelter to cover the ruins of the exploded Soviet power plant and prevent further contamination...
Russian lawmakers are taking another stab at advertisers, this time in an attempt to ban abortion ads in the media. Earlier this month The Moscow News reported on a bill targeting advertising of the occult. New legislation introduced into the
Driving recently to Chornobyl, where I'm from, my thoughts travelled back to 1986, and to what happened then in Ukraine and my own north-central region of it, known as Polisya. I remembered how my elderly relatives broke down history into