* A special forces officer and two gunmen were killed in a police operation to oust a militant group that barricaded itself in two residential buildings in the Stavropol Territory in southern Russia, a local police source said
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 05:29 GMT
NOVOSIBIRSK, February 10 (RIA Novosti, Maxim Koshmarchuk) – Lawyers for jailed former Yukos owner Mikhail said Friday they were planning to petition the administration of the penal colony where he is being held to allow him to choose his prison occupation freely.
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 06:01 GMT
Russia said a successor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan should be an Asian throwing cold water on U.S. suggestions that the next top U.N. diplomat could come from any region in the world.
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 06:29 GMT
Three Russian policemen and five rebels died Thursday in a clash with a group of suspected Chechen militants in a southern province near war-ravaged Chechnya, officials said. Clashes in the area continued on Friday, local media reported.
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 06:31 GMT
BISHKEK, February 10 (RIA Novosti, Yulia Orlova) – The speaker of the parliament of Kyrgyzstan told members Friday that he had officially tendered his resignation and asked his colleagues to put the issue on the vote.
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 06:34 GMT
MOSCOW, February 10 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Central Bank announced Friday that the country's narrowly defined money supply (M1) was 2,138.5 billion rubles ($75.8 billion) (based on the current exchange rate) as of February 6, down 9 billion rubles ($319 million) in the week since January 30.
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 07:18 GMT
MADRID, February 10 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's top sports official has been left facing a predicament after the nation's Olympic committee refused to grant him accreditation to visit Russian athletes at their base for the Turin Games.
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 07:23 GMT
PYATIGORSK, February 10 (RIA Novosti) – An operation to apprehend a militant group barricaded in two houses in a southern Russian village has left three police officers dead, two injured, and one missing, local police said Friday. "The operation to neutralize the militants holding two privately owned houses is continuing," the police said.
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 07:33 GMT
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev.)-- Amid natural satisfaction in the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin's clearly successful visit to Spain, big questions arise as to the essence of Russia's relations with the Europeans.
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 07:39 GMT
Sibneft, the Russian oil company bought by Gazprom, the national gas monopoly, yesterday said its profits and dividends would fall this year, reflecting an increase in investment needed to halt a fall in production.
// Feb. 10, 2006 - 07:57 GMT