Police in Russia's Kamchatka have seized 29.5 tons of red caviar worth some 30 million rubles ($970,000) from a refrigerator found in the street in a local town.
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 03:37 GMT
A Russian Rokot carrier rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia early on Wednesday to put a Gonets-M and two Kosmos satellites into orbit.
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 03:58 GMT
Andrei Arshavin hailed Slovakiaâ™s discipline after Russiaâ™s shock <span class="nobr">1–0</span> defeat at home to their Euro 2012 qualifying group rivals. </p>
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 04:53 GMT
Before meeting Mr Putin, the group had held anguished discussions about where Russia was heading. Even the Russian members were mostly glum, with many saying that the countryâ™s size, climate and history made autocracy and lack of freedom almost inevitable. The economic prognosis was equally downbeat. A survey of opinion among the clubâ™s members, called the Valdai index, came to some harsh conclusions. </p>
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 06:07 GMT
Only a year ago, commentators were calling for the “R” in Bric (Brazil, Russia, India, China) to be removed after the global economic crisis hit Russia particularly hard. But now the economy has bounced back, the mood has turned and some are asking whether Russia is actually the best of the bunch.
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 06:10 GMT
A Russian Rokot carrier rocket orbited a Gonets-M satellite and two Kosmos satellites on Wednesday, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 06:34 GMT
Russia's energy investment company ESN group, owned by tycoon Grigory Beryozkin, has agreed to sell its core energy assets to state-controlled power trader Inter RAO UES, Kommersant daily said on Wednesday.
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 07:21 GMT
Russia has been increasingly proactive in its efforts to have visa requirements with the EU lifted, but the prospects of that happening are now less clear than ever
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 07:23 GMT
People who take part in unsanctioned rallies should face jail terms, the head of the Moscow police was quoted as saying by a Russian daily on Wednesday.
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 07:50 GMT
Iran already has enough enriched uranium to produce a nuclear bomb and is still continuing its enrichment process, Russian business daily Kommersant said, citing experts and the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) report.
// Sep. 08, 2010 - 07:54 GMT