The government of Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Region on the Volga has doubled the premium paid to users of old cars who agree to have their car scrapped in line with a new disposal scheme.
// Mar. 24, 2010 - 00:39 GMT
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time collide particles at an energy of 7 tera-electron volts (TeV), or 3.5 TeV per beam, on March 30, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on its website.
// Mar. 24, 2010 - 01:51 GMT
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim al-Thani are to meet Wednesday to discuss investment cooperation in the energy sphere.
// Mar. 24, 2010 - 03:28 GMT
Moscow will on Wednesday pay last respects to its chief firefighter who died Saturday while trying to save every possible survivor in a fire that engulfed a business center in the city's north.
// Mar. 24, 2010 - 03:55 GMT
Russian law enforcement agencies are looking into an incident in east Siberia's Irkutsk Region after videos posted on the web showed high school students beating up their old teacher during physical education classes, Russian media reported.
// Mar. 24, 2010 - 05:08 GMT
Russia's drug control chief, Viktor Ivanov, will announce new proposals on Wednesday for eliminating the narcotics threat from Afghanistan at the Russia-NATO Council meeting in Brussels, a law enforcement source said.
// Mar. 24, 2010 - 06:30 GMT
The death toll from the recent floods in southern Kazakhstan has risen to 43, the emergencies ministry said on Wednesday.
// Mar. 24, 2010 - 06:38 GMT