* Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi and France-based electronics company Thales opened a new software development center in Russia for Sukhoi's regional jet (RRJ) project

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 04:53 GMT

TURIN, February 14 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is waking up to another success at the Winter Olympics Tuesday morning after figure skaters Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin won the pairs title.

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 06:29 GMT

ASTANA, February 14 (RIA Novosti) – Seven people have been killed in two separate traffic accidents in Kazakhstan, the country's Emergency Situations Ministry said Tuesday.

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 06:37 GMT

Russia's skating duo, Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin, kept their nation's domination of Olympic pairs going Monday night with a balletic free skate reminiscent of the greatest Russian couples. Speed skater Dmitry Dorofeyev finished second in men's 500-meter race.

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 06:57 GMT

LONDON, February 14 (RIA Novosti, Alexander Smotrov) – The winner of a tender to build a new shell that should keep the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster safe for future generations will be announced in London Tuesday.

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 07:17 GMT

Indonesia and Russia plan to build a satellite launching pad on a remote island in Indonesia's easternmost province. The island was chosen because it is close to the equator, where rockets can take advantage of the Earth's greater rotational speed to save on fuel.

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 07:29 GMT

BEIRUT, February 14 (RIA Novosti, Marianna Belenkaya, Yulia Troitskaya) – The assassination of Rafik Hariri marked the birth of a new Lebanon, the son and political heir of Lebanon's former prime minister told reporters Tuesday a few hours before a mass rally in the capital to mark the first anniversary of the popular former premier's death.

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 07:43 GMT

MOSCOW, February 14 (RIA Novosti) – A group of experts will make a decision on the fate of a building housing many of the capital's most famous newspapers after it was largely gutted by fire, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Tuesday.

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 08:03 GMT

U.S. music, movie and software groups have urged the Bush administration to immediately suspend trade benefits for Russia in retaliation for widespread piracy that annually costs American companies about $1.76 billion in lost sales.

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 08:30 GMT

Polimetall, Russia's third largest gold firm and biggest silver miner, said on Monday, Feb. 13, that it plans to float shares in London in November and promised to name lead managers for the listing by the end of this month.

// Feb. 14, 2006 - 08:57 GMT