MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) – The election campaign for the lower house of Russia's parliament officially starts Wednesday, less than two months before the December 2 polls to the State Duma.
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 05:23 GMT
MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's investment index will open Wednesday at 771.43 points, up 0.13% following Tuesday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 05:53 GMT
MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) – Credit institutions' balances on correspondent accounts with the Russian Central Bank totaled 401.5 billion rubles ($15.6 billion at the current exchange rates) at the beginning of the business day, down 6.9% from Tuesday, the CBR said Wednesday.
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 06:00 GMT
VILYUCHINSK (Kamchatka Region), September 5 (RIA Novosti) – Rosneft [RTS: ROSN] will start drilling exploratory wells at a giant western Kamchatka shelf in Far Eastern Russia as early as next year, the head of Russia's largest crude producer said Wednesday.
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 07:10 GMT
MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) – The first Russian cargo aircraft containing humanitarian aid has arrived in North Korea recently hit by devastating August-floods, that destroyed a total of 47,000 houses.
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 07:15 GMT
KRASNODAR, September 5 (RIA Novosti) – More than 20,000 birds have been culled at a poultry farm in the Krasnodar Territory in an effort to prevent the bird flu virus from spreading, a local emergencies service source said Wednesday.
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 07:47 GMT
Vladimir V. Putin
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 08:00 GMT
TEL-AVIV, September 5 (RIA Novosti) – Three Israeli soldiers were injured in the center of Nablus, in Palestine's West Bank, when a home-made bomb was detonated near their jeep, an Israeli Army spokesman said.
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 08:12 GMT
RIA Novosti, Maria Tabak. – "A secret love affair with a handsome young German dance student inspired Rudolf Nureyev's dramatic defection to the West in 1961, a new BBC film claims," wrote arts reporter Ben Hoyle in the London Times on Saturday. The film "Nureyev: from Russia with Love" will be screened in three weeks.
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 08:17 GMT
(adds details in paras 3, 4, 8, 9, background in para 5–7, 10)
// Sep. 05, 2007 - 08:46 GMT