* Talks between Iran and the European Union on the country's nuclear problem should be fruitful, Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Security Council said

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 04:25 GMT

VLADIVOSTOK, October 24 (RIA Novosti) – Three sailors from a Russian cargo ship that is thought to have sunk in the Pacific off South Korea's east coast were found alive Tuesday, and one was found dead, Russian officials in Vladivostok said.

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 05:15 GMT

Restrictions on civil liberties due to the "war on terrorism" have undermined media freedom in the United States and Russia over the past year, journalists' rights group Reporters Without Borders has ruled.

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 05:22 GMT

MOSCOW, October 24 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian yacht with a two-man crew that was sailing across the Red Sea on its way to the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Fast East has been detained in Eritrea, either by officials or an armed group, an official in the Kamchatka administration said Tuesday.

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 06:19 GMT

Russia is planning to start talks on a new cooperation treaty with the European Union (EU) before the end of this year, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 06:31 GMT

A Minsk court sentenced a Belarusian rights activist to two years at a prison colony Monday for saying authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko needed a psychiatric examination.

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 06:34 GMT

Three of the 18 sailors from the wrecked Russian dry cargo ship Sinegorye have been rescued in the Sea of Japan, one has been found dead and 14 remain missing.

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 06:39 GMT

VLADIVOSTOK, October 24 (RIA Novosti) – Five Russian sailors have been found alive and one dead from a Russian cargo ship believed to have sunk in the West Pacific, off South Korea's east coast, Russian officials in Vladivostok said Tuesday.

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 06:43 GMT

Restrictions on civil liberties due to the "war on terrorism" have undermined media freedom in the United States and Russia over the past year, journalists' rights group Reporters Without Borders has ruled.

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 06:47 GMT

YEKATERINBURG, October 24 (RIA Novosti) – An oil pipeline that burst in the Chelyabinsk Region in Russia's Urals has spilled crude over an area of 5,500 square meters, a local emergencies ministry official said Tuesday.

// Oct. 24, 2006 - 06:52 GMT