* Russia's Emergencies Ministry said three-fourths of the 200-km toxic slick in the Amur River had passed Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia's Far East, and the concentration of chemicals in the river did not exceed the maximum permissible level
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 07:51 GMT
Russian hockey team Dynamo Moscow have won the European Champions Cup by defeating Finland's Karpat 5–4.
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 08:33 GMT
IRKUTSK, January 9 (RIA Novosti, Alexander Batalin) – A program to support the indigenous ethnic groups in Siberia has started to be implemented in the Irkutsk Region, the local administration said Monday.
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 08:54 GMT
Russia has confirmed its stance that the Iranian nuclear problem should be solved in the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency "through cooperation of all parties involved."
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 09:27 GMT
Russian diplomats on Saturday sought a compromise to Tehran's disputed nuclear programme but Iran confirmed it was poised to resume atomic fuel research that will further inflame international anger.
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 09:27 GMT
DUSHANBE, January 9 (RIA Novosti) – All organizations, both state and private-owned, in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe will have to ensure day-and-night monitoring of their premises to prevent fires and other accidents, the mayor's office told reporters Monday.
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 09:53 GMT
MOSCOW, January 9 (RIA Novosti) – The current outbreak of bird flu in Turkey, which has killed three children in the remote eastern Van region, has not had a negative effect on the number of Russians willing to visit the country, a tourism official said Monday.
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 10:09 GMT
Russian ice hockey team Dynamo Moscow has won the European Champions Cup by defeating Finland's Karpat 5–4.
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 11:12 GMT
Indian and Russian paratroopers will hold their second series of joint exercises in August in Russia. The commander of Russia's elite Airborne Troops said Russia had planned two joint exercises in 2006, with India and NATO.
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 11:14 GMT
DUSHANBE, January 9 (RIA Novosti) – Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov said Monday that the commission inquiring into the fire that killed 13 children in an orphanage in Dushanbe, the Central Asian republic's capital, early Sunday, had 10 days to determine what caused the blaze.
// Jan. 09, 2006 - 11:17 GMT