Russia's ailing car industry, which has been badly hit by the global financial crisis, got a shot in the arm on May 30, when a consortium made up of Russia's Sberbank and Canada's Magna took over the German car manufacturer

President Dmitry Medvedev has followed up Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's high profile bail out of a troubled company town with a public threat to fire governors who cannot deal with wage arrears and unemployment on their own. But without invoking

It will be exactly a year this week since President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his first major foreign policy speech in Berlin, in which he called for a complete overhaul of the European security system. So far, nothing real has come

Deputy Director of the Deposit Insurance Agency Andrei Melnikov this week announced that the economic crisis has ceased to have an impact on the private investment market in Russia. But last week, a different interpretation of the economy by of

When the audience scolds television, it's simultaneously wrong and right. Television can have powerful and dangerous effects. It resembles an anaconda that's luring in a rabbit. But it is a strange type of anaconda: it both hypnotizes the rabbits and

The popular Tuvan artist Eduard Ondar, who played the title role in the film "The Secret of Genghis Khan", received the honorable title "Merited Artist of Republic Sakha (Yakutia)". The state award was presented to him on May 30 on

The unique ethno-rock-festival "Ocean of Compassion" which started in Kalmykia, culminated in a gala concert in the Great Hall of the Moscow International House of Music on June 2. The festival was dedicated to the occasion of the 400th anniversary

The international "Drum of the World" of the Norwegian Saami remained in Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva, for almost two weeks. Today it started out on its trip through the rural districts of Tuva. Western Ulug-Khem and Chaa-Khol districts will

Famous traveler Fedor Konyukhov was forced to interrupt his participation in his international project "Along the Great Silk Road", which started on May 13 in Ulan-Bator, because of illness.He felt the first symptoms of illness on June 3. On June

Tuvan physicians believe that Fedor Konyukhov's deterioration of health was caused by tick-bite rickettsiasis. On June 11, because of acute deterioration of his health, the famous traveler was met by a team of Tuvan health workers at the border-crossing point

Michelle Feynman, whose father was Richard Feynman (1918-1988), laureate of Nobel Prize for physics, and one of the participants in the atom bomb project, came to Tuva on June 8.She is accompanied by Ilona Vinogradova, a BBC correspondent. This visit

The Defense Ministry plans to complete sea trials of a new diesel Lada-class submarine this year, a military official said on Wednesday.

Topol-M and Bulava ballistic missiles will constitute the backbone of Russia's nuclear triad, a senior defense ministry official said on Wednesday.

There is an urgent need for more border guards in the Yamal Peninsula, regional border control authorities say.

A team of Swedish and Finnish divers have located the wreckage of a Soviet WWII S-type diesel submarine near the Aland islands in the Baltic Sea, a Swedish news agency said on Tuesday.

A nuclear attack submarine involved in a fatal accident during sea trials last year will be commissioned by the Russian Navy in the fall and then leased to the Indian Navy, a source said on Tuesday.

Russia's Pacific Fleet task force led by the Admiral Panteleyev destroyer is heading back to its base in Vladivostok after an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden, a Fleet statement said on Tuesday.

Russia’s top-secret special purpose submarine, B-90 Sarov, is reportedly operating in northern waters from the Northern Fleets bases on the Kola Peninsula.

The Severomorsk destroyer from Russia's Northern Fleet will participate in FRUKUS 2009 international naval exercises in the northern Atlantic on June 22-26, the fleet's press service said Wednesday.