* The parliamentary speakers of the Group of Eight industrialized nations gathered in St. Petersburg's Tavrichesky Palace to discuss uncontrolled immigration, the fight against human trafficking, terrorism and WMD proliferation
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 06:03 GMT
An explosion ripped through a sewage plant in a town outside Moscow on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring 12, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Authorities did not know what caused the blast in the town of Pavshino, but a ministry spokeswoman said they had ruled out terrorism.
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 06:47 GMT
Russian riot police have beaten up and detained several opposition protesters who were urging a meeting of G8 parliamentarians to be more outspoken about the state of democracy in Russia.
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 07:16 GMT
Engineers have mounted a Russian Soyuz rocket on top of its launch pad in the middle of the Kazakh steppe and begun final preparations for blastoff to the international space station.
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 07:27 GMT
Moscow and Beirut have started preparing documents on regulations for the presence of Russia's military contingent in Lebanon to help restore ruined infrastructure.
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 07:35 GMT
Russia's diplomacy could undergo certain adjustments, Alexander Kramarenko, the Foreign Ministry's Foreign Policy Planning Department director, has said in an interview.
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 07:38 GMT
MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti) – A gas leak has been the main version of the explosion at a water-supply and sewage plant near Krasnogorsk on Moscow's northwestern outskirts Saturday, which killed three and injured seven people, emergencies officials said Sunday.
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 08:00 GMT
TIRASPOL, September 17 (RIA Novosti) – Moldova's breakaway region of Transdnestr is holding a referendum Sunday to decide whether it should continue seeking independence and union with Russia.
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 09:11 GMT
The explosion at a water-supply and sewage plant near Krasnogorsk on Moscow's northwestern outskirts has killed three and injured seven people.
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 09:33 GMT
Moscow and Beirut have started preparing documents on regulations for the presence of Russia's military contingent in Lebanon to help restore ruined infrastructure.
// Sep. 17, 2006 - 09:40 GMT