Deep divisions between advocates and opponents of the Kyoto protocol has prevented an international climate conference from reaching consensus on the pact to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, whose existence hinges entirely on Russia’s ratification.
A Russian submarine carrying 12 crew has sunk in the Barents Sea. Only one of the sailor has been saved, but rescue efforts are still under way.
The first space wedding will go ahead on Sunday after the Russian military gave permission to orbiting cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko to tie the knot with his US sweetheart on Earth, media in Moscow reported Friday.
Russia held back on Wednesday from celebrating news that US troops have killed Saddam Hussein’s two sons, with a senior official saying that the development was still no guarantee for the future security of Iraq.
Shoved into cells by the dozens, prisoners in Russia’s jails are subject to incessant outbreaks of tuberculosis and Aids, according to a report handed to a Council of Europe envoy as he was to begin a tour of the country’s prisons on Wednesday.
Russia yesterday began beefing up security measures around the capital after Saturday’s suicide bombings, as President Putin cancelled an overseas trip to try to deal with the fear gripping the city’s 10-million inhabitants.
Russian President Vladimir Putin remained conspicuously quiet on Sunday on a deadly suicide attack at a Moscow rock concert which served as a clear sign that his moves towards peace in breakaway Chechnya were not going according to plan.
The black sheeting looked like bin liners as paramedics yesterday tried to cover up the shredded remains of the 20 dead from the first suicide bombing to hit Moscow.
Putin’s silence after blasts
Moscow’s press lamented on Monday that Russia was slipping back to Soviet-era bad habits after the weekend closure of the country’s last major private television network TVS.
At least 14 people were reported dead in Chechnya last Wednesday when a second suicide bombing narrowly failed to kill the Moscow-backed head of the local administration. The bombing came as Colin Powell, the United States Secretary of State, held talks with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow on Iraq and international terrorism, and […]
Leading Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev said on Monday that separatist guerrillas under his command carried out the two suicide attacks that killed 78 people in the breakaway Russian republic last week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma lower house of parliament on Thursday that would offer an amnesty to rebels in Russia’s war-torn republic of Chechnya, the Kremlin said.
At least 30 people were killed and more than 70 injured early on Monday when a truck loaded with explosives blew up an administration building in the Chechen village of Znamenskoye, a local official reported.
Foreign-backed terrorists are still operating in the separatist republic of Chechnya and receiving money and weapons from other countries, Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said on Wednesday.
It could have been a lot worse for the two Americans and one Russian whose landing ended up nearly 500 kilometres off course and their recovery hours late.
Dozens of Chechen rebels put down their arms Saturday in a ceremony apparently designed to promote harmony in the war-ruined region on the eve of a constitutional referendum, officials said.
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Russian diamond mining company Alrosa is prepared to reduce diamond sales to De Beers by 25% in a nod to European Union antitrust concerns, an Alrosa executive said on Friday.
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Russian officials have denied that former Chechen warlord Salman Raduyev, found dead in a jail where he was serving a life sentence, had been beaten to death. Raduyev, 35, convicted for taking more than 2 000 people hostage in 1996, died on Saturday in a high-security prison in the Perm region of the Urals after internal haemorrhaging, officials said.
The European Union’s looming enlargement eastwards ran up against its first big external obstacle last week when Moscow and Brussels were deadlocked on how to deal with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, with 900 000 people, which will be locked territorially inside the expanded union.
THE fight against terrorism is radically changing the entire system of international relations as coalition partners rally around a common goal.
Nearly 650 of the released Moscow theatre hostages remain in hospital and more than 200 are in a very serious condition, Russian medical authorities said on Sunday. They said that the death toll so far was 117.
Curtain closes on theatre siege
At least half a million scientists have left Russia over the past decade because of pitifully low wages, a senior science figure said on Thursday.
Six people were killed and another 21 severely injured on Monday when a powerful explosion occurred near Grozny’s central market, ripping apart a municipal bus as it drove by, local pro-Moscow officials told Interfax.
A pro-Russian Chechen official was shot dead and a Russian soldier was killed in a mine blast in the breakaway republic of Chechnya in the past 24 hours, Russian military sources said on Wednesday.
Unknown gunmen shot dead the top bodyguard of Chechnya’s pro-Russian administration chief Akhmad Kadyrov, interior ministry officials said on Wednesday.
Russian forces will not withdraw from Chechnya until rebel leaders and their accomplices have been ”eliminated”, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has vowed.
Russian engineers have presented a parachute they have designed to save people’s lives in skyscrapers after disasters, an idea inspired by the September 11 attacks.
From cocaine smuggling for Colombian drug cartels to criminal betting syndicates in Asia, Russian mobsters have extended their tentacles across the far corners of the globe, backed up by formidable resources at home.
Fugitive Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, told a Russian weekly that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was still alive and vowed that the ”fire” of war will burn down Washington.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on Monday, ahead of a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Naji Sabri, that Moscow supported ”pre-emptive measures” against global terrorism, but only under UN approval.
A Russian rocket exploded in mid-air seconds after blasting off, killing one man and injuring eight, emergency officials said on Wednesday.
AT least 20 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded on Thursday when a bomb exploded during a military parade in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan.