Wildfires have been raging in forests on both sides of the M5 “Urals” federal highway linking Moscow and the Urals near the city of Togliatti in the Volga area.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 03:31 GMT
Numerous events will be held across Russia on Friday, to mark the Day of solidarity in fight against terrorism and the final day of the Beslan school siege, in which 334 people were killed.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 03:49 GMT
Russia start their attempt to qualify for Euro 2012 with a trip to minnows Andorra on Friday evening.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 04:50 GMT
Twenty five people were seriously injured when a suspected suicide car bomb hit a police building in Tajikistan's second largest city of Khujand on Friday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:02 GMT
Wildfires raging in Russia's Volgograd Region have now killed 4 people and injured 14, a Emergency Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:13 GMT
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin announced Thursday that Russiaâ™s ban on grain exports, which was adopted last month after a severe drought and heat wave depressed the harvest, would be extended well into next year because of continued uncertainty over production. </p>
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:20 GMT
Local political experts in Azerbaijan say the current visit of the Russian president is also aimed at soothing the effect of the recent Russian-Armenian military agreement. The Armenian interpretation of its agreement with Russia was that Russia guaranteed to protect Armenia and the Armenian occupied territories in Garabagh if Azerbaijan opted for a military solution of the problem.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:22 GMT
Political analysts say Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev handled the wildfire emergency poorly. Timberland, villages, and a naval base were destroyed as officials in Moscow initially failed to act and their local subordinates were reluctant to take charge, says Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. “All decisions are made and all commands are issued at the top, so everyone was waiting for orders from the Prime Minister.”
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:24 GMT
Proposed health legislation on a mandatory liability insurance program would see healthcare providers in Russia pay out $66,000 for deaths caused by negligence, a business daily said on Friday.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:45 GMT
The Lada Kalina Sport that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin used to drive down the Amur Highway was put on display at the AvtoVAZ section of the Moscow International Motor Show on September 1. The prime minister drove the yellow supermini from Khabarovsk to Chita during his trip to the countryâ™s Far East. </p>
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:57 GMT