* Polonium-210, a radioactive isotope that was allegedly used to poison a Russian defector in London, could not have originated in Russia, former nuclear minister Viktor Mikhailov said
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 05:28 GMT
BEIJING, November 28 (RIA Novosti) – North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator said Tuesday the country is ready to rejoin stalled six-party talks on the North Korea nuclear issue.
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 06:18 GMT
KALUGA, November 27 (RIA Novosti) – Brighton College, a leading British public school, plans to establish a branch in Borovsk, Kaluga Region, fifty miles south of Moscow, to take in first boarding school pupils in 2009. High quality British-style education has long become an attraction for wealthy Russians. Soon they will have an opportunity to give their children the same standard of education at home, The Times reports.
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 06:34 GMT
At a summit which starts in the Latvian capital Riga on Tuesday NATO leaders are poised to discuss potential threats to the alliance, such as political ambitions of key energy supplier – Russia.
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 06:37 GMT
British police investigating the death of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko have said traces of a deadly radioactive substance had been found at the offices of self-exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky.
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 06:39 GMT
Moscow's main shopping thoroughfare abounds with all sorts of retail outlets, luxury boutiques, bars, restaurants and leisure facilities. But for a young mother with a baby in a pram downtown Moscow is a "no-go" area, a correspondent with a popular Moscow weekly, Bolshoi Gorod, reports.
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 06:57 GMT
GROZNY, November 28 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian contract serviceman has been killed and two wounded in a car attack in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, local law enforcers said Tuesday.
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 07:05 GMT
TBILISI, November 27 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow plans no separate meeting between the Russian and Georgian presidents on the sidelines of ex-Soviet leaders' summit Tuesday, a Kremlin official said.
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 07:05 GMT
MOSCOW, November 28 (RIA Novosti) – Credit institutions' balances on correspondent accounts with the Russian Central Bank totaled 315.7 billion rubles ($12 billion at the current exchange rates) at the beginning of the business day, down 7% (23.8 billion rubles/$902.5 million) from Monday, the CBR said Tuesday.
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 07:12 GMT
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development yesterday slammed the Russian government for its expansion into key economic sectors and raised concern about the "seemingly insatiable appetite" of Gazprom, its state-run energy giant.
// Nov. 28, 2006 - 07:31 GMT