* The UN Security Council adopted a statement calling on North Korea to drop plans to test nuclear weapons and return to negotiations

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 06:04 GMT

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) – One person has died and two were injured in a fire that engulfed a fire-storey dormitory in central Moscow earlier Saturday, the capital's firefighters said.

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 06:57 GMT

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's prime minister called Saturday for measures to optimize management of the country's agro-industrial complex and develop agricultural machine-manufacturing.

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 07:38 GMT

MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) – Three militants have been eliminated in Chechnya, the Russian Interior Ministry said Saturday.

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 08:10 GMT

Russia has tightened the pressure on ethnic Georgians living in Moscow, ordering schools to compile lists of children with Georgian surnames to detect illegal migrants and deporting more than 100 people, officials said Friday.

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 08:39 GMT

Georgia's pro-Western president Mikhail Saakshvili warned against "racist rhetoric" and called for European help as Russia deported Georgians in a deepening crisis between the countries, in comments published Saturday.

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 08:47 GMT

GROZNY, October 7 (RIA Novosti) – Police have found a weapons cache containing arms and ammunition in a suburb of the troubled republic's second largest city, Gudermes, a law enforcement source said Saturday.

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 08:50 GMT

The German Foreign Ministry is preparing a new Ostpolitik, or policy toward the east, that aims to tighten ties between Russia and Europe just as President Vladimir Putin, who visits Germany next week, is under heightened international scrutiny on issues from energy to Georgia.

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 09:03 GMT

CSKA Moscow have been hit with 1200 euro fine by the UEFA disciplinary committee as punishment for the behavior of a minority of their fans during last week's Champions League clash against Hamburg.

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 09:19 GMT

A German couple whose infant vanished under mysterious circumstances 22 years ago just before Vladimir Putin arrived as a KGB agent in Dresden hope the man who is now Russia's president can help find their son.

// Oct. 07, 2006 - 09:32 GMT