* Local officials said an explosive liquid drain into sewage systems or a gas leak were the most likely causes of the explosion at a water-supply and sewage plant near Moscow Saturday, when three people died and seven were injured
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 04:26 GMT
MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian rocket carrying a U.S.-Russian crew, and the world's first female space tourist, lifted off Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a mission control spokesman said.
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 05:04 GMT
GROZNY, September 18 (RIA Novosti) – An Interior Ministry contract soldier was hospitalized with a leg wound after a checkpoint in eastern Chechnya was attacked by unidentified assailants, local police said Monday.
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 05:31 GMT
MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) – Vneshtorgbank shareholders will convene Monday for an extraordinary meeting to discuss procedures for the affiliation of Promstroibank Industrial and Construction Bank (RTS ticker: PCBS), the bank press service said.
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 05:47 GMT
Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region voted Sunday in a referendum that was expected to confirm overwhelming public support for eventually making it an outpost of Russia. Earlier, Moldova and the West have vowed not to recognize the referendum, just as they have refused to recognize the Russian-speaking region's de-facto independence.
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 05:58 GMT
GROZNY, September 18 (RIA Novosti) – A militant leader who supervised terrorist operations in several districts of Chechnya was killed Sunday in a special police operation, Chechnya's prime minister said Monday.
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 06:23 GMT
A Russian-built rocket carrying a new U.S.-Russian crew for the International Space Station (ISS), along with the world's first female space tourist, lifted off Monday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Anousheh Ansari, 40, an Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur, has paid a reported $20 million for the trip.
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 06:27 GMT
MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) – Volgatelecom (RTS: NNSI) said Monday its un-audited net profits, calculated to International Accounting Standards (IAS), increased 39.3%, year-on-year, to 1.52 billion rubles ($56.6 million) in the first half of 2006.
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 06:28 GMT
Mikhail Youzhny hopes to teach Andy Roddick a lesson in clay court tennis when Russia host the United States in the Davis Cup semi-final this week in Moscow.
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 06:34 GMT
Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region voted Sunday in a referendum that was expected to confirm overwhelming public support for eventually making it an outpost of Russia. Earlier, Moldova and the West vowed not to recognize the referendum, just as they refused to recognize the region's de-facto independence.
// Sep. 18, 2006 - 06:36 GMT