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Russia to expand military aid to US occupation of Afghanistan
The Kremlin has announced plans to begin shipping arms to support the US occupation of Afghanistan along the Northern Distribution Network that passes through Russia.
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Russia Forest Fires Leave 25 Dead
Forest fires burning across Russia for the past few days, have devastated villages, surrounded one southern city, and killed 25 people, including three firefighters.
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Leftist Historian Howard Zinn Lied About Red Ties
The prominent progressive historian Howard Zinn...was not only a member of the Moscow-controlled and Soviet-funded Communist Party USA (CPUSA) but lied about it, according to an FBI file released on Friday.
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Violence erupts at protest over Russian forest
Moscow (AFP) July 29, 2010 Russian demonstrators hurled smoke bombs and smashed windows in a rare violent protest against the building of a road through a forest outside Moscow, officials said Thursday. Pictures broadcast on Russian television ...
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Russian fires kill 25 amid record heat
Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Wildfires in Russia, among the worst ever there, have killed 25 people, destroyed more than 1,000 homes, and prompted the prime minister to call on local officials to resign, r...
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It's 38.2 deg C in Moscow
MOSCOW - TEMPERATURES on Thursday soared to 38.2 deg C in the Russian capital, the highest since records began more than 150 years ago, the Moscow Weather Office said. Moscow has been in the grip of an unprecedented heatwave since the start of the month.
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Young Scot realises Bolshoi dream
The first Scot to win a place at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy secures the funding to fulfil her dream.
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Russian army called in to tackle forest fires
President Medvedev has called in the army to tackle forest fires which have raged across parts of central Russia. Latest reports say the number killed has risen to more than twenty. The bodies of six people were found in one village near Moscow which ...
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Attorney: Returned Russian boy back in orphanage
The Canadian Press - SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - An attorney for an adoption agency says a Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his American adoptive mother has been placed back in an orphanage.
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Espanyol sell defender Pareja to Spartak Moscow
Madrid- Argentine defender Nico Pareja announced on Friday that he has left Spanish Liga club Espanyol to join Russian giants Spartak Moscow. According to Spanish media reports, the transfer fee will be around nine million euros( 11.76 million ...
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Moscow to allocate 200 million dollars for wind-power plant
Russia plans to spend 200 million U.S. dollars on construction of the largest wind-power plant in the Krasnodar region, RIA Novosti reported Friday. The plant, capable of producing 50 MW of energy per year initially, will be located near Yeisk on ...
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Russian News Monitor Russian court bans YouTube over extremist videos
Russian court bans YouTube over extremist videos A court banned access to popular video site YouTube in Russias Far East because it contained a video that the Justice Ministry declared extremist, Russian newspapers reported Thursday. Russia foils ...
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Russian forest fires spread, at least 7 dead
Forest fires continue to rage around several Russian cities and officials say at least seven people have died, including two firefighters.
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Moldova expects positive talks with Russia on wine exports
Moldova's minister of agriculture and food, Valery Kosarchuk, hopes for successful talks with Moscow on Friday on Moldovan wine exports to Russia.
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Head of Russian government human rights committee resigns (Roundup)
Moscow- The chairwoman of the Kremlin's human rights committee resigned on Friday in an apparent protest at President Dmitry Medvedev's policies. Observers have suggested that Ella Pamfilova resigned over a decree signed into law by Medvedev on ...
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An Anti-Russia Campaign
From textbooks to statues, Tbilisi is hitting back at Moscow
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About 60 Peat and Forest Fires Occur Near Moscow, Covering City with Thick Smoke
The Capital of Russia has seen record high temperatures for over a month. The Russian Emergencies Ministry says that some 60 new forest and peat bog fires have occurred over the past 24 hours, covering an area of 50 hectares in the Moscow Region.
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Boise State president criticizes rival Idaho's culture
Boise State University President Bob Kustra says his remarks about a bitter football rivalry with the University of Idaho, in which he called Vandal culture 'nasty' and 'inebriated,' came out harsher than he intended. Boise State ...
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The President's False START
National Security: Think Moscow will violate the New START arms limitation treaty? A just-issued report says it never obeyed the first one. The motto of the Obama administration is blindly trust, don't verify and unilaterally disarm. You can forget ...
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Moscow faces energy challenge
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is pressing for the country to improve its energy efficiency. Yet with US$92 billion needed merely to upgrade the aging power grid, the cost will be high - and private investment likely to be scarce. - Sergei Blagov
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Russia Unveils Privatization Plan as Largest US Investor Divests
Wide-ranging program has ambitious revenue goals and is most significant since early 1990s
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Russia Is Ditching $29 Billion Of State-Owned Assets And Will Only Sell Them To China
Russia is selling a big chunk of state-owned assets to fill a budget hole. Worth an estimated $29.3 billion, the assets are a great opportunity for investors looking to get into some of the world's largest commodity reserves .Moscow is counting on ...
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Moscow Is Melting
The Russian capital has suffered nearly 50 fires as Muscovites cope with the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the city. The BBC reports that it got up to 102 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday. Guess they wont be needing those funny hats.In ...
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Severe smog blankets Moscow
Wednesday, July 28, 2010At least 43 peat fires have erupted in rural regions to the east and south of the city, and temperatures only 0.1 degrees Celsius less than the record high of 34.7 degrees, set Monday, have led to a thick cloud of smog ...
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South Ossetia: Activist Brutally Assaulted
(Moscow) - The de facto authorities of South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, should promptly investigate the vicious attack on a civic activist and hold those responsible to account, Human Rights Watch said today.read more
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Moscow sweats in record high temperature
Moscow marked a record 37.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday, making the day the hottest in the city in the past 130 years.
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From Fires to Fish, Heat Wave Batters Russia
RYBKHOZ, Russia Ivan Tyurkin trudged along a pier and surveyed the breeding ponds all around him. He did not need a thermometer to know that the water was treacherously tepid. Dead trout, drif...
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Russia To Export 8 Helicopters to Peru
Moscow - Russia's official arms export agency Rosoboronexport signed a contract to export eight helicopters to Peru, the first post-Soviet arms sale to the Latin American country.
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Russia foils passenger plane hijacking
Russian special forces quickly overpowered a man after he briefly seized a plane with 105 passengers and crew at a Moscow airport on Thursday, officials said.
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Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee
Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog cloud caused by peat-bog fires.
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