* Russia should increase the share of coal in its fuel and energy balance, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said during his visit to a coal mining town in the Kemerovo Region, western Siberia
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 07:03 GMT
MOSCOW, February 19 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and Azerbaijan have reached the level of strategic partnership, an official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 07:46 GMT
MOSCOW, February 19 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is ready to act as a guarantor of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, if Armenia and Azerbaijan come to a compromise, an official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Mikhail Kamynin said the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was a cause of concern for all the Caucasus countries, including Russia.
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 08:13 GMT
Russia and its military bases have been named the main threat to Georgia by the country's council of advisers.
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 08:55 GMT
MOSCOW, February 19 (RIA Novosti) – Police in Moscow have arrested a drug trafficker from Tajikistan attempting to smuggle a large batch of heroin into Russia, the Interior Ministry of Russia said Sunday.
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 09:03 GMT
The Russian team has clinched the sixth gold by efforts of cross-country skiers in the women's 4x5 km relay at the Turin Olympics on Saturday and beat the results of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, Russian Olympics Committee President Leonid Tyagachev said.
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 09:15 GMT
Five workers of a local plant in Kazakhstan have been killed when a missile detonated during a torch cutting.
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 09:23 GMT
Russian free speech advocates have accused officials of using the worldwide uproar over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as an excuse to shut down a regional newspaper and ingratiate themselves with the Kremlin.
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 09:23 GMT
Elena Soboleva of Russia has smashed the 1500m indoor world record at the Russian championships yesterday. The Russian clocked 3mins 58.28secs at the Vladimir Kuts sports arena, shaving 1.70secs off the old mark.
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 09:33 GMT
GROZNY, February 19 (RIA Novosti) – A fire that broke out Saturday in one of the districts of Chechnya, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus, killed two children, the local hospital said Sunday.
// Feb. 19, 2006 - 09:36 GMT