Trepashkin, who earlier has served a prison sentence charged for disclosure of the state secret, addressed to the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, with the request to promote in revision of his criminal case, news agency RBC reports,
MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's new Voronezh-type radar site in the southern town of Armavir will be put on combat duty in February 2009, the commander of the Russian Space Forces said on Monday. "To be exact, on
MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on measures to counter corruption, the Kremlin said on Monday. The decree envisions the establishment of an anti-corruption council subordinate to the president. Speaking on Monday
VORONEZH, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Two convicts at a prison camp in central Russia's Ivanovo Region timed their escape for the final of the Ice Hockey World Championship between Russian and Canada on Sunday. A spokesman for the local
YESSENTUKI (Stavropol Territory) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin issued instructions on Monday to assess and check foreign trade contracts in the agricultural sphere for their compliance with the country's interests. Putin was holding a conference on the government's agricultural
MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Arkady Dvorkovich sherpa in the Group of Eight industrialized nations, the Kremlin said on Monday. Dvorkovich replaced Igor Shuvalov, who was recently appointed a first deputy prime minister
For Russians, your birthday is kind of like New Year's Day, when you reconsider everything you've done in your life, and start wondering if there's any good you could do for the world. For my recent birthday, I decided to
Say you meet me at a party and I tell you that when I was 7 years old, I killed a full-grown military officer, then ran off and was nurtured by a pack of wolves. Would you believe me or
These days, all the cool Russians talk about how stupid and time-consuming blogs are. It seems the wonderful and frightening days of commenting each other to death are gone. All the ex-livejournaling hipsters will tell you that now their blogs
Historians, philosophers and novelists have for centuries struggled with one of the great questions of mankind: Why did Russia veer so tragically away from the democratic path of the rest of Europe? The answer, according to recent archeologist findings...
The Russian Navy will participate for the first time in a large-scale submarine rescue exercise conducted by NATO countries and their allies, a Navy spokesman said on Friday.
NOVOSIBIRSK, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Agricultural experts have detected bird flu antibodies in migratory birds in southern Siberia, Russia's agricultural watchdog said in a statement Monday. The presence of antibodies means that either the birds have been in contact
MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will head an anti-corruption council to be set up in Russia in the near future, Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin said after a presidential conference on Monday. Naryshkin said
More than 500 Russian specialists of the fishing industry are among them, the rest are the representatives of foreign fishing companies, as well as scientists with world name.
