* The finance ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, of which Russia currently holds the rotating presidency, held a meeting in Moscow, proposing various global economic and energy initiatives, which were then discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 07:12 GMT
MOSCOW, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – A domestic gas explosion in a West Siberian city killed six people, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 08:02 GMT
MOSCOW, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – A militant attack on interior troops in Ingushetia, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus neighboring Chechnya, killed one and injured four, the local interior ministry said Sunday.
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 08:29 GMT
MOSCOW, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – Eight people died in a head-on collision on a highway in the Russian republic of Tuva in East Siberia bordering on Mongolia, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 08:42 GMT
MOSCOW/VLADIKAVKAZ, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – Police seized a militant from a group of gunmen who had opened fire on troops in Ingushetia, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus bordering on Chechnya, the Defense Ministry said Sunday.
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 09:10 GMT
GROZNY, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – A militant was killed in a search operation in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, the local law-enforcement bodies said Sunday.
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 09:35 GMT
Finance ministers from the Group of Eight nations focused on how to temper oil prices and ensure their access to energy supplies as ways to insulate the world economy from high fuel costs.
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 09:52 GMT
TURIN, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova of Russia won the bronze medal in the women's 15-kilometer pursuit Sunday. The gold medal went to Kristina Smigun of Estonia who overtook silver medalist Katerina Neumannova from the Czech Republic, finishing in 42 minutes, 48.7 seconds – 1.9 seconds ahead of Neumannova.
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 10:19 GMT
The Russian fantasy-horror movie, Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor), opens in the United States on February 17. Fox Searchlight Pictures will debut the film – in Russian with subtitles – in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 10:47 GMT
Hamas leaders said they don't expect Russia to impose conditions for their trip to Moscow this month for talks, while Israel's foreign minister cautioned the international community on Sunday against going down the "slippery slope" of legitimizing the violent Islamic group.
// Feb. 12, 2006 - 10:47 GMT