* Andrei Denisov, the Russian envoy to the UN, told China's news agency Xinhua that the European trio, comprising Britain, Germany, and France, Russia, China and the United States would discuss Iran's nuclear issue in London January 16
// Jan. 15, 2006 - 07:07 GMT
MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti) – The speaker of the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, said Sunday he was alarmed over recent acts of extremism and intolerance in Russia.
// Jan. 15, 2006 - 08:05 GMT
MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel's first working visit to Moscow, to begin on January 16, will bolster the development of strategic partnership between Russia and Germany, a high-placed source in the Kremlin said Saturday.
// Jan. 15, 2006 - 08:16 GMT
She has the world at her feet, but no man in life, and that makes U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice incomplete, claims Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
// Jan. 15, 2006 - 08:26 GMT
An Uzbek human rights activist who apparently witnessed mass violence in the city of Andijan in May, was arrested in the aftermath the Andijan demonstrations and some reports suggest he has already been sentenced to a lengthy prison term.
// Jan. 15, 2006 - 08:37 GMT
GROZNY, January 15 (RIA Novosti) – Two arms caches have been found in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus in the past 24 hours, the local law-enforcement authorities said Sunday.
// Jan. 15, 2006 - 08:42 GMT
Scientists at the Poultry Breeding Institute have announced development of a vaccine against the deadly bird flu which can be passed to humans. The vaccine offers reliable immunity for domestic poultry against the H5N1 virus several weeks after vaccination.
// Jan. 15, 2006 - 08:46 GMT
KUALA-LUMPUR, January 15 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Chekushkin) – A delegation of Russia's Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, has arrived in Indonesia's capital Jakarta to participate in the 14th session of the Asia-Pacific parliamentary forum, the press office of the Federation Council said Sunday.
// Jan. 15, 2006 - 09:27 GMT
A Jewish organization that monitors anti-Semitic activities in Canada says it suspects a Russian group is behind a rash of swastikas that were spray-painted in a Jewish neighborhood of Montreal this week.
// Jan. 15, 2006 - 09:30 GMT