* Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Davud Danesh-Jafari said the country would give Russian organizations a priority in the construction of nuclear power plants

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 05:23 GMT

TURIN, February 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's squad Alexander Zubkov/Alexei Voyevoda/Filipp Egorov/Alexei Seliverstov won the silver in the four-man bobsleigh competition at the Winter Olympics in Turin.

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 06:08 GMT

TURIN, February 26 (RIA Novosti) — The Russian ice hockey team lost the match for the bronze to the Czech team 0–3 at the Winter Olympics in Turin Saturday night.

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 06:34 GMT

I am amazed that Russian figure skaters may sweep all four gold medals at the Olympics in Turin, especially as times are hard in Russia and Russian kids haven't even been able to get a coach, or ice rink time. After A decade and a half of such troubles, how can Russia keep on winning. How unfair to the people of Russia to lose so many of their coaches and poetential students for the future of Russian Ice skating.

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 06:35 GMT

I am very dissapointed in the Russian hockey team. Shame on you Russian hockey team! The collection of flashy Russian players have managed to score 0 goals in the last 2 medal games while being outscored 7–0. It's a shame on Soviet/Russian hockey any time its team doesn't win a medal in the World Championship or at the Olympics.

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 06:36 GMT

MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) – The death toll after the Thursday collapse of a Moscow market roof rose to 66 as one more person injured in the tragedy has died in a hospital, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Sunday.

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 06:45 GMT

Greetings flowed from all across the country on Feb. 23, marked as the Day of Defender of Fatherland in Russia, to a hospital where Andrei Sychyov, having been savagely beaten by other defenders of Fatherland on the New Year's Eve, was receiving medical treatment.

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 07:19 GMT

ROSTOV-ON-DON, February 26 (RIA Novosti) – The death toll at a poultry farm in southern Russia has risen to 44,000 hens, a local official said Sunday.

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 07:30 GMT

MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Central Bank announced Sunday that the country's narrowly defined money supply (M1) was 2,179.1 billion rubles ($77.3 billion) (based on the current exchange rate) as of February 20, up 16.5 billion rubles ($592.5 million) in the week since February 13.

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 07:31 GMT

MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) – The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, passed a counter-terrorism bill in the final third reading Sunday.

// Feb. 26, 2006 - 07:41 GMT