Moscow has refused to extradite a former Ukrainian security chief, sought by Kiev in connection with the 2004 poisoning of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.
A contest of famous persons sponsored by Russian state television has come back online after being temporarily shut for "technical reasons." So far, tsar Nikolai II and Joseph Stalin top the list.
Russia's president has signed a law which lets the government hand-pick which companies can tap into the vast resources thought to lie below the Arctic Ocean.
A Russian ASW ship, the Severomorsk, arrived on Thursday in Norway's main naval base of Haakonsvern on its way to participate in a joint U.S.-Russian naval exercise in the Barents Sea, a Navy spokesman said.
Of the students studying in Russian maritime colleges, more than 90 percent go abroad to work. Now Russian authorities intend to make the sailors work for Russian companies.
Various food and cultural program were available at the festival.VLADIVOSTOK, July 18, vladivostoktimes.com Delegation of Pacific community - volunteer students from the Republic of Korea are on a visit to Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Students give lessons
The academic degree was awarded to the Nobel Prize laureate, Academician Zhores Ivanovich ALFYOROV.Vladivostok, July 18, vladivostoktimes.com On Wednesday the solemn ceremony of awarding with degree of Honorary Doctor of FENU in the area of physics of the Vice-President of
About 500 schoolchildren will spend three weeks in All-Russian Children Center "Ocean".VLADIVOSTOK, July 17, vladivostoktimes.com Delegation of Chinese schoolchildren was met in Vladivostok airport on Thursday. Over 350 children from Chinese Province of Sichuan, which suffered from the earthquake, will
Pacific Venus" will spend only one day in the Primorye capital.VLADIVOSTOK, July 18, vladivostoktmes.com Cruiser "Pacific Venus" from Hiroshima, Japan, comes to Vladivostok on July 22. The Territory Administration Tourism Department reported it to RIA PrimaMedia. "Pacific Venus" will spend
MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian and German foreign ministers will meet on Friday to discuss means of preventing a further escalation of violence between Georgia and its rebel region Abkhazia. Frank-Walter Steinmeier will arrive in Moscow following
ROSTOV-ON-DON, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 330 pigs have died of the African swine fever virus (ASFV) in Russia's North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, the local emergency service said on Friday. Outbreaks of the highly contagious
MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - Three traffic police officers were killed and a civilian injured when attacked by unidentified gunmen in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Karachai-Circassia, a local police source said on Friday. Gunmen opened fire at the
KRASNOYARSK, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - Blood samples taken from a 13-year-old Siberian boy who brought home a plague-infected ground squirrel have tested negative for the disease, the Russian consumer rights watchdog said on Friday. The teenager, living in a
MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - Foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will decide on whether to lift a moratorium on bringing in new states at a meeting in Tajikistan on July 25, a Russian diplomat said on
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - A brown bear killed two geologists in the northeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia's Far East, a local emergencies spokesman said on Friday. The incident occurred in the Olyutor Range, in Kamchatka's Koryak
MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - Foreign ministers of the six countries negotiating North Korea's nuclear disarmament will meet in Singapore on July 24, a Russian Foreign Ministry source said on Friday. The meeting will be held on the sidelines
