* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Vienna for talks between the foreign ministers of the five members of the UN Security Council and Germany on Iran's controversial nuclear programs
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 04:25 GMT
Lyudmila Putin, the Russian president's wife, said the state plays a bigger role than a woman's husband in encouraging her to have children.
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 06:05 GMT
If this proposal goes into law it will be a disaster for Russian Ballet !! are ballet trained dancers good soldiers? Please, please do not let this law go into effect.
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 06:05 GMT
I too am shocked that Ballet dancers will have to serve in the military. Have the leaders of Russia lost their minds? Is it not enough that the fall of the Soviet Union has given the world Russia's most talented coaches in Figure skating and the other arts, circus, Moiseev dancers and folk dancers etc. etc.? Is it not enough that so many figure skating coaches have moved to the US and Canada where they are helping the world, leaving almost no coaches to coach the new generation of Russian skaters to the detriment of Russia?
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 06:11 GMT
NEW YORK, June 2 (RIA Novosti) – An international commission on weapons of mass destruction has called on Washington and Moscow to open negotiations on slashing their strategic arsenals by at least half.
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 06:15 GMT
(Recasts paragraph 4, adds paragraphs 5–9)
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 06:34 GMT
MOSCOW, June 2 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's upper house of parliament Friday dismissed Vladimir Ustinov from his post as Prosecutor General following a recommendation from President Vladimir Putin.
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 06:34 GMT
MISSION CONTROL (Kololyov, Moscow Region), June 2 (RIA Novosti) – The 13th crew of the International Space Station successfully completed a spacewalk mission Friday, a source at mission control outside Moscow said.
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 06:39 GMT
MOSCOW, June 2 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's newest investment index will open Friday at 608.82 points, up 0.68% on the previous day's trading, following Thursday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 06:42 GMT
Russian commander Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. flight engineer Jeff Williams retreated safely inside the international space station early Friday after extending their spacewalk so that they could replace a video camera on a construction platform at the orbiting outpost.
// Jun. 02, 2006 - 07:13 GMT