* The ruling United Russia party will focus on measures against crime at its congress in December in the wake of a recent series of contract murders in the country, the speaker of the lower house of Russia's parliament and the party leader said
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 04:23 GMT
I refer to your article on casinos in Moscow. The backbone of the casino is the reel gaming machine. These machines have a notorious reputation for generating problem gamblers. In Victoria, Australia, reel gaming machines account for over four out of every five problem gamblers. A paper titled "Unbalanced Reel Gaming Machines" produced by the Canadian gaming machine expert Roger Horbay, and me exposes a hidden asymmetry in the design of the reels. The paper explains clearly and in detail the uncomfortable parallels between the internal design of reel gaming machines and cheating mechanisms in other games.
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 05:20 GMT
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) – Around 20 Russian shipbuilding companies will display a total of 130 units of naval equipment, many featuring stealth technology, at the Euronaval-2006 exhibition opening in Paris on Monday, an official from Russia's state arms exporter said.
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 06:11 GMT
The problem around the giant Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project on Russia's Far East island may be resolved through talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, Oct. 20. At the same time Putin once again questioned the skyrocketed costs of the project.
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 07:20 GMT
Russia has no plans to reduce the volumes of its oil production following OPEC's decision to cut its quota to 1.2 million barrels per day, the country's Deputy Industry and Energy Minister Andrei Dementyev said on Friday, Oct. 20.
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 07:20 GMT
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) – The Moscow City Court will hold hearings on two terrorist bombings that hit the capital's subway in February and August 2004, a spokeswoman for the court said Monday.
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 07:27 GMT
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian ship stranded in the Sea of Japan has been sending out distress signals since water flooded one of its holds earlier Monday, a Russian rescuer said.
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 07:37 GMT
MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) – The average weighted dollar rate for contracts with "tomorrow" settlements was 26.8804 rubles during Monday morning's unified trading session on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX), up 2.94 kopeks from Friday.
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 07:45 GMT
SAMARA, October 23 (RIA Novosti) – A candidate from the leftist Party of Life has won a runoff election for the post of mayor in Samara, a major Russian city on the Volga river, the city's election committee said Monday.
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 07:46 GMT
SUKHUMI, October 17 (RIA Novosti) – Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia has launched command and staff military exercises to train for repelling an enemy attack, an Abkhaz military official said Monday.
// Oct. 23, 2006 - 07:59 GMT