* Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the head of the Iranian Expediency Council, said Iran would continue to exercise its right to develop and use nuclear technology for civilian purposes despite international criticism of its efforts in the sphere
// Jan. 12, 2006 - 05:26 GMT
IRKUTSK, January 12 (RIA Novosti, Alexander Batalin) – About 3,000 people, including 720 children, were left freezing in their Siberian apartments early Thursday after a main water pipe burst, the local Emergency Situations Ministry said.
// Jan. 12, 2006 - 06:17 GMT
TYUMEN, January 12 (RIA Novosti, Alexander Perestoronin) – A Russian airliner was forced to make an emergency landing Thursday in the Far Eastern city of Surgut, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
// Jan. 12, 2006 - 06:44 GMT
MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti) – A man who burst into a synagogue in central Moscow and stabbed eight people with a hunting knife will undergo a mandatory psychiatric examination, a source in the investigation said Thursday.
// Jan. 12, 2006 - 07:04 GMT
ASTANA, January 12 (RIA Novosti) – The leaders of Russia and Kazakhstan have started an official meeting in Astana.
// Jan. 12, 2006 - 07:14 GMT
MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti) – Prosecutors in Moscow said Thursday the number of violent crimes committed in the capital had risen in 2005.
// Jan. 12, 2006 - 07:41 GMT
While many of the world's leading tennis players continue to cry off through injury ahead of the Australian Open, glamour girl Maria Sharapova says she'll play through the pain barrier in Melbourne.
// Jan. 12, 2006 - 07:45 GMT
VLADIVOSTOK, January 12 (RIA Novosti) – A senior aide to Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the Far East remained Russia's most problematic region.
// Jan. 12, 2006 - 07:52 GMT
Trade volume between China and Russia reached $29.1 billion in 2005, an on-year surge of 37.1 percent, according to China's Ministry of Commerce. China is now Russia's fourth largest trade partner, and Russia is China's eighth largest trade partner, the ministry said.
// Jan. 12, 2006 - 07:57 GMT