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.
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
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
LONDON, May 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russian foreign minister said Moscow was ready to host a Mideast peace conference this summer and urged the parties to reach an agreement on the event. "We are convinced that this should be done
The construction of high-speed railway lines linking Moscow with St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Smolensk is a priority in the development of the transportation system in Central Russia, a deputy transportation minister told The MN. >>
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...
Member of the "Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense" bloc Anatoliy Hrytsenko is sure that Head of the Ukrainian State Viktor Yushchenko doesn't have chances to win President's elections in 2010. "First of all, the President is oriented to the elections,
MOSCOW, April 14 (RIA Novosti) - Former Chechen criminal group leader Movladi Atlangeriyev has been kidnapped in Moscow, Kommersant business daily reported on Monday. Atlangeriyev, 54, who gained notoriety as a gang leader in 1990s, disappeared on January 31 near
Head Commander of the Russian Navy, Vladimir Vysotskii promises to give "psychological support" to the Russian trawlers operating in the waters outside Spitsbergen.
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