* Emergency Situations Ministry officials said more than 50 people had been killed, and some 30 injured after the roof of the Basmanny market in downtown Moscow partly collapsed early in the morning
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 06:55 GMT
MOSCOW, February 24 (RIA Novosti) – Rescue workers have finished clearing the rubble at the Basmanny market in downtown Moscow where a partial roof collapse killed 57 people and injured more than 30 on February 23, an emergencies ministry spokesman said Friday.
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 07:10 GMT
ROSTOV-ON-DON, February 24 (RIA Novosti) – More than 24,000 hens died at a poultry farm in southern Russia, a local official said Friday. "From February 20 to February 23, more than 24,000 birds died at a poultry farm in a village of Lavlinskaya (124 kilometers from the regional center Krasnodar)," an emergencies ministry spokesperson said.
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 07:35 GMT
MOSCOW, February 24 (RIA Novosti) – The Belarusian foreign minister will arrive in Moscow on a working visit on February 27, a diplomat at the Belarusian Embassy in Russia said Friday.
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 08:04 GMT
MOSCOW, February 24 (RIA Novosti) – Mayor Yury Luzhkov reiterated Friday that the roof collapse at the Basmanny market in downtown Moscow on Thursday morning that killed 57 and injured more than 30 people was not an act of terror but rather an industrial accident.
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 08:28 GMT
MOSCOW, February 24 (RIA Novosti) – A Moscow court has extended the arrest of Tsniimash-Export head Igor Reshetin, who is accused of passing information on sensitive technologies to China, until July 9, his lawyer said Friday.
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 09:15 GMT
THE HAGUE, February 24 (RIA Novosti) – The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said Friday it would not grant a temporary release to former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic for medical treatment in Moscow.
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 09:54 GMT
Russian rescue workers said on Friday they had given up hope of finding anyone else alive under the rubble of a Moscow market roof that collapsed on top of traders, killing 57 people. President Vladimir Putin has called for a "painstaking investigation".
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 10:38 GMT
The head of Russia's atomic energy agency, Sergei Kiriyenko, arrived in Tehran Friday to continue talks on efforts to resolve Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, state-run television reported.
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 10:41 GMT
Irina Slutskaya, who could have secured a Russian monopoly of the skating titles, finished third in Turin on Thursday. Shizuka Arakawa put Japan was the best, while Sasha Cohen, trying to give the U.S. its third straight women's figure skating gold, earned silver.
// Feb. 24, 2006 - 10:45 GMT