* President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with permanent members of Russia's Security Council to discuss various issues of domestic and foreign policy

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 06:07 GMT

NOVOSIBIRSK, September 3 (RIA Novosti) – A court building was blown up in the city of Novosibirsk in Russia's West Siberia but there were no victims, the local law-enforcement said Sunday.

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 06:46 GMT

Right-wing nationalists and residents in a northern Russian town clashed with riot police and destroyed a restaurant, rights activists and witnesses said Saturday, days after a fight between ethnic Russians and ethnic Chechens left several people dead.

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 07:59 GMT

Right-wing nationalists and residents in a northern Russian town clashed with riot police and destroyed a restaurant, rights activists and witnesses said Saturday, days after a fight between ethnic Russians and ethnic Chechens left several people dead.

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 08:04 GMT

European Union foreign ministers met Saturday to consider an across-the-board upgrading of relations with Russia that would include guarantees on energy supplies, hoping to start formal negotiations with Moscow in November. The aim is to replace a decade-old "partnership and cooperation agreement" with a more comprehensive free trade deal.

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 08:08 GMT

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday congratulated Muscovites on the 859th anniversary of the capital and wished them prosperity and success.

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 08:13 GMT

The Kuwaiti government has asked Moscow to explain why it placed two Kuwaiti Islamic charities on its list of international terror organizations saying they were "beyond suspicion," a Cabinet member said in remarks published Saturday. Both charities denied any connections to terrorism.

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 08:18 GMT

Russia's Prosecutor General's office said Saturday it had been re-admitted into the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP).

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 08:25 GMT

A gunman fleeing a police traffic stop in a troubled southern Russian region died after an explosive device he was carrying – possibly a suicide bomber's belt – detonated, a regional police official said Saturday.

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 08:37 GMT

One hundred and nine people have been detained in the town of Kondopoga in Russia's northern Republic of Karelia, where ethnic enmity sparked massive disturbances on Saturday.

// Sep. 03, 2006 - 08:51 GMT